1915 Film Quotes

“100 Years After The Armenian Genocide You Can't Escape The Past”

“Wikipedia: 1915 (film)”

“Nikolai Kinski — Tony”

“Simon Abkarian — Simon”

“Angela Sarafyan — Angela”

“Internet Movie Database (IMDb): 1915”

“How can the past, be it hidden or overt, have such power over us in the present, and what are the secret ways in which we deal with it? What happens when the truth is denied, and what happens when it is confronted? These are the mysteries at the heart of 1915. The story is set in 2015, on a day much like this one, exactly 100 years after the genocide. It is about a haunted man who stages a controversial play in a haunted theater – the historic Los Angeles Theatre in downtown, founded in part by Charlie Chaplin – to bring the ghosts of his past back to life, and to somehow change the course of history.”

“Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves.”

“And now here is my secret, a very simple secret: It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.”

“All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.”

“You have power over your mind—not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.”

“The impediment to action advances action. What stands in the way becomes the way.”

“Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one.”

“Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms—to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances.”

“Those who have a 'why' to live, can bear with almost any 'how'.”

“Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom.”