Pink Floyd The Wall (film)

"[singing] Daddy's flown across the ocean Leaving just a memory A snapshot in the family album Daddy, what else did you leave for me? Daddy, what'd ya leave behind for me? All in all, it was just a brick in the wall. All in all it was all just bricks in the wall."

"[singing] We don't need no education We don't need no thought control No dark sarcasm in the classroom Teacher, leave them kids alone Hey, teachers! leave them kids alone! All in all, it's just another brick in the wall. All in all, you're just another brick in the wall."

"[singing] I don't need no arms around me And I don't need no drugs to calm me. I have seen the writing on the wall. Don't think I need anything at all. No! Don't think I'll need anything at all. All in all, it was all just bricks in the wall. All in all, you were all just bricks in the wall."

"[singing] Are there any queers in the theatre tonight? Get 'em up against the wall! That one in the spotlight, he don't look right! Get him up against the wall! And that one looks Jewish... and that one's a coon! Who let all this riff raff into the room? That one's smoking a joint! And that one's got spots! If I had my way, I'd have all of you shot!"

"Stop! I wanna go home, take off this uniform, and leave the show. I'm waiting in this cell because I have to know... have I been guilty all this time?"

"Is there anybody out there?"

"You! You! Yes, you! Stand still, laddie!"

"When we grew up and went to school"

""What have we here, laddie? Mysterious scribblings? A secret code? Oh, poems, no less! Poems, everybody!"

"But in town it was well known"

"We don't need no education"

""An acre is the area of a rectangle"

"[A phone ringing]"

""Mother": [lyrics] Hush now baby, baby, don't you cry. Mother's gonna make all of your nightmares come true. Mother's gonna put all of her fears into you. Mother's gonna keep you right here under her wing. She won't let you fly, but she might let you sing. Mama will keep baby cozy and warm. Ooooh babe, ooooh babe, oooooh babe, Of course Mama's gonna help build the wall."

"Groupie: [While Pink watches TV, ignoring her] Oh, my God. What a fabulous room. Are all these your guitars? [Touches guitars] God. This place is bigger than our whole apartment. [Pause] You like the tube, huh? [Pause] Can I get a drink of water? Can I get you a drink of water? [Goes into the bathroom] Oh, wow! Look at this tub! Wanna take a bath? [Comes back out] What are you watching? [Her voice begins echoing and fading] Hello? Hello? Are you feeling okay?"

"Pink's Manager: [Discovers Pink's hotel room trashed, while Pink, who is due to perform, is unconscious] Fuck me! He's gone completely around the bleedin' twist! [to Pink] You vicious bastard, you never did like me, did you? [Inaudibly, continunes to harangue the unconscious Pink as the medical team attempts to revive him] The boy's an asthmatic."

"Hotel Manager: [Outraged by the condition of Pink's room] An asthmatic?"

"Pink's Manager: He's an artist! [Stuffs cash into hotel manager's pockets, then begins slapping Pink] He's coming around! There, you see! How do you feel? [Directs roadies as they dress the barely-conscious Pink and drag him out of hotel room, down the hall, and into a limousine, which will take him to the concert hall]."

"There were a number of different influences, some literary. Graham Swift’s novel Waterland [1983] was a book we had to read in school. It has multiple timelines, and the way it cuts between them and how effective that was, combining history with the present. I happened to read that around about the same time as I watched Alan Parker’s Pink Floyd: The Wall [1982], which is a truly remarkable, impressionistic film. Like, what the fuck is that movie? It’s quite marvellous. The way he uses the production design, the different timelines, the intermingling of memory, dream, things like that, it was very influential on me. And the cinema of Nicolas Roeg, in particular, the editing rhythms and the way he used things other than narrative and chronological progression, that all started to click with me."

"Pink Floyd The Wall. Now the film."

"The memories. The madness. The music... The movie."