Dogville quotes

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Chapter EIGHT
Chapter FIVE
Chapter FOUR
Chapter NINE
Chapter ONE

Chapter SEVEN
Chapter SIX
Chapter THREE
Chapter TWO
Prologue
Quotes about Dogville

View Quote Optimistic viewers may debate how much of a handle he has on human nature. But he's clearly got a handle on his own views, and presents them in a way that is impossible to ignore or discount completely. You can loathe Dogville because it represents a concession to the basest ideas of human greed and cruelty, but you can't deny that it makes those ideas feel frighteningly real. Josh Bell in Las Vegas Weekly

View Quote I think they like you here. Tom

View Quote I shouldn't be ashamed wanting you, should I? It's nothing to be ashamed of. Tom

View Quote Slow-moving but engrossing, it feels shorter, and any reservations you may have about the unorthodox approach are washed away by its unexpected and purgative ending. Eric Harrison in The Houston Chronicle

View Quote If you want my Ma to like you, and let you stay. You'll just have to be nice to me. Jason

View Quote I think we should open them. I think it's appropriate. Grace

View Quote Dogville is a love-it-or- hate-it experience, but one that will fill a large space in any viewer's imagination. Colin Covert in The Minneapolis Star Tribune

View Quote I asked you here to listen. You only came to defend yourselves... I'm sorry it's quite a blow to me to see all of my friends act this way, so uncivilized. Tom

View Quote Of course it was all a load of nonsense. If anybody was capable of keeping track of ideals and reality, he was. After all, it was his job. Moral issues were his home ground. To think that he might doubt his own purity was really to think very little of him.

View Quote Lars von Trier is probably a genius. This doesn't stop him from being a jerk. Robert W. Butler in The Kansas City Star

View Quote June is near to bursting. She can't use the pot on her own, as you well know. It ain't fitting' to toy with her just 'cause she's crippled and can't help herself. Olivia

View Quote Two people only hurt each other if they doubt the love they have for one another. You can read it some other time. You sit down some place and gaze out at the mountains. It's what the girl in my novel does. Tom

View Quote There is a right and a wrong time to plant seeds and you can't plant seeds in the winter. Tom

View Quote What the hell is this? The Man In The Coat

View Quote Well, they couldn't really argue that anything had changed. But by not telling the police they felt they were committing a crime themselves. Tom