The Doors

Ray Manzarek: [to Jim] Things are about to explode man. You can feel it in the air. Vietnam's right out there. Sides are being chosen. People wanna fight or fuck, love or kill, everything's gonna flame. The planet's screaming for change, Morrison. Make the myths man! Patricia Kennealy: [to Jim] Come on rock god, fuck me, fuck me good. Gloria Stavers: [to Jim] You control the audience, like dogs, manipulate them Jim, one picture can control a million people, be anything you want—growl at them, be ugly, be frightened, be selfish. Be man, woman, whild, animal. Live, die, return again. Anything you want. Everything is permitted. Go on look at yourself, fall in love with yourself. You're your own audience now Jim. They want you. Worship and love and adore you...Jim Morrison, the god of Rock and Cock... Andy Warhol: [handing Jim a golden telephone] Edie gave this to me and said mmmmm, I could talk to God with this. But I don't really have anything to say. So... mmmm now you can talk to God.

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Jim: [entering through the window] Hi. Pam: Wow! Hi...You have a problem with doors? Jim: Waste of time. I followed you... from the beach... Pam: Wow! You followed me? Why? Jim: 'Cause... you're the one. [He kisses her] Pam: Wow... neat.

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Trick: [to Jim, after Jim's film was panned] Hey man whatdya expect, an Oscar? Bones: You can't quit, you gotta voice. People can't dig cause they don't understand yet. Jack: If you're an individual, if you're too good, they wanna cut your dick off. Look what happened to Orson Welles. Trick: You quit now, they'll yank your deferment in no time and they'll get you for Vietnam man. Three more months you graduate. Bones: Be cool, you never learned fuckin patience Morrison, you want everything at once. Nick: They didn't get it. So make your films and fuck what they think. Jim: You know what I think? Bones: Yeah whadda you think? Jim: You really want to know what I think? Bones: Yeah yeah, whatddaya think? Jim: I think we gotta get really ripped!

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Jim: What turns you on? Pam: I don't know. Experience. Freedom. Love... Now. Peyote's like love. When it's given it's blessed. When it's sold it's damned. I like peyote. I like acid, it's easier to get. I like the spiritual voyage. The first time I did acid I saw God. I did. I had a friend who was Christ. And he was Judas too. I suddenly knew the secret of everything -- that we're all one, the universe is one. And that everything is beautiful. Jim: Is it? I don't know. I think you're alive by confronting death -- by experiencing pain. Pam: I think you're alive by recognizing beauty -- seeing truth because when you discover truth you discover what love is... we're all saying the same thing. It's "love me and I'll love you." Jim: It's only through death that you know life. Jesus, medicine men heal people by sacrificing their own life. Pam: Do you love death? Jim: I think life hurts a lot more than death. When you die the pain is over.

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Jerry: What shit, "day destroys the night", "crawl back in your brain", "go insane". What do people wanna pay money to hear that shit? Jim: The greater the suffering, the more terrible the events, the greater the pleasure Jerry. They want it, it's catharsis. Like the ancient Greeks. Jerry: We're in Los Angeles, punk, how would you know? They like your pants, they're not listenin' to you, what the hell they see in you I... Jim: But they understand Jerry. All our real desires are unconscious and unseen. Jerry: You're the weirdest fuckin' guy I ever... Jim: You love us? Jerry: I love ya. You got two more shows to do.

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Ray: [after being propositioned by a record manager] We'll have a band meeting. The four of us do everything unanimously or we don't do it. Manager: The musketeers. I'm touched. But lemme tell you something -- loyalty don't pay the bills.

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