But I'm over all of that. I'm painting and stuff. Writing. I want to be a writer. Or maybe a painter, I don't know, maybe both. I'll write a book and draw the pictures. Then maybe people will understand me. I don't know, change things.

Donnie Darko (Jake Gyllenhaal)

18 seconds sound clip from the Donnie Darko movie soundboard.

You can hear this line at 00:33:05 in the Blu-ray version of the movie.

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- He stabbed my mom four times in the chest.

- Oh. Did he go to jail?

- No, he fled. They still can't find him.

- But my mom and I had to change our names.

- And I thought Gretchen Ross was really cool.

- I was in jail once. I mean I accidentally burned down this house. It was abandoned, but still I got held back in school and I can't drive until I'm 21.

- But I'm over all of that. I'm painting and stuff. Writing. I want to be a writer. Or maybe a painter, I don't know, maybe both. I'll write a book and draw the pictures. Then maybe people will understand me. I don't know, change things.

- Donnie Darko?

- What the hell kind of name is that? It's like some sort of superhero or something.

- What makes you think I'm not?

- Look, I should go.

- For physics, Montinoff is having me write this essay, Greatest Invention Ever To Benefit Mankind.

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