Gary Ross - Pleasantville (1998)

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I know you want it to stay pleasant around here, but — there are so many things … that are so much better. Like silly, or sexy, or dangerous … or brief. And every one of those things is in you all the time, if you just have the guts to look for them.

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There are some places … that the road doesn't go in a circle. There are some places where the road keeps going.

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This movie is about the fact that personal repression gives rise to larger political oppression.… That when we're afraid of certain things in ourselves or we're afraid of change, we project those fears on to other things, and a lot of very ugly social situations can develop.

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Must be awfully lucky to see colors like that. I bet they don't even know how lucky they are.

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Huck and — and the slave.... they … they were going up the river, trying to get free…. and — in trying to get free … they see that they're sort of free already…

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