The Year of Living Dangerously

Billy Kwan:
We'll make a great team, old man. You for the words, me for the pictures. I can be your eyes.

Billy Kwan:
If it's in focus, it's pornography, if it's out of focus, it's art.

Billy Kwan:
I would have given up the world for her. You wouldn't even give up one story.

Guy Hamilton:
It's not just A story, it's THE bloody story - can't you understand that?

Billy Kwan:
Starvation is a great aphrodisiac.

Billy Kwan:
[Despairing over a shift in Guy Hamilton's values] Why can't you give yourself? Why can't you learn to love?

Kumar:
You in old Java now, Boss.

Billy Kwan:
What then must we do? We must give with love to whoever God has placed in our path.

Billy Kwan:
Here, on the quiet page, I am the master.

Billy Kwan:
In the West, we want answers for everything. Everything is right or wrong, or good or bad. But in the [shadow play] no such final conclusion exists.

Billy Kwan:
Look at Prince Ajuna. He's a hero. But he can also be fickle and selfish. Krishna says to him, "All is clouded by desire, Ajuna, as a fire by smoke, as a mirror by dust. Through these, it blinds the soul.

Billy Kwan:
Most of us become children again when we enter the slums of Asia. And last night I watched you walk back into childhood. With all its opposite intensities: laughter and misery, the crazy and the grim, toy town and a city of fear.

Kumar:
For my father, I'll play the beggar.

Jill Bryant:
[remarking on one of Guy's articles] I found it a bit melodramatic. That's only my opinion, my flatmate was moved to tears. So, there you are.

Guy Hamilton:
What does it take to move you to tears, eh?

[last lines]

Guy Hamilton:
Kumar, I am sorry.

Kumar:
Don't worry. We're going to win, because we believe in something.

Guy Hamilton:
Goodbye, Kumar.

Kumar:
Think of me Guy, when you are sitting in some nice cafe in Europe. In my dreams, I am always sitting at the table, by the footpath, drinking coffee.

Guy Hamilton:
Good Luck.

Kumar:
Now go, quickly!

Billy Kwan:
-Don't think about the major issues. You do what you can about the misery in front of you. You add your light to the sum of all light.

Pete Curtis:
So, Hamilton, you really think Sukarno's going to let the commies have their own little private army?

Guy Hamilton:
That's what Aidit says.

Pete Curtis:
Aidit's lying.

Guy Hamilton:
Maybe.

Pete Curtis:
Then why report it?

Guy Hamilton:
Maybe he's *not* lying.

Billy Kwan:
Stalin had good Discipline. He killed 10 million.