Twelve (2010)

Actors

• Joseph Adams (actor)
• Gregg Bello (actor)
• Maxx Brawer (actor)
• Josh Casaubon (actor)
• Chace Crawford (actor)
• Jermaine Crawford (actor)
• Rory Culkin (actor)
• Philip Ettinger (actor)
• Alexander Flores (actor)
• Steve Grodewald (actor)
• Jack Kimball (actor)
• John Ii Kimball (actor)
• Rock Kohli (actor)
• Billy Magnussen (actor)
• 50 Cent (actor)

Genres

• Drama
• Thriller

Taglines:

No one needs anything here. It's all about want.

Quotes:

Sara Ludlow: I have lots of boyfriends. I mean, I'm not a slut.::Chris: Of course you're not.::Sara Ludlow: But, different guys are interesting for different reasons. You're interesting for a very specific reason.

Narrator: [on White Mike] You will not be remembered if you die now. You'll be buried and mourned by a few and what more can you ask for? The world will spiral from underneath you, and you are either too smart or too dumb to find God. Maybe you are angry, only because the way out is through love, and you are just horny and lonely.

Narrator: [on Sara's death] As Sara lay dying, she thought, "This will be famous and make an unbelievable story once school starts again. People will be sorry they weren't here."

Narrator: So you're born in the capital of the world and you can never escape. And that's how it is because that's how everyone wants it to be. It is all about want. No one needs anything here. It is about when you wake up in the morning and the snow is already coming down and it's bright between the buildings where the sun falls but already dark where the shadows are. And it's all about the want. What do you want? Because if you don't want something you've got nothing. You are adrift. You're washed away and then buried under the snow and shadows. And when in the spring the snow melts, no one will remember where you were frozen and buried. And you will no longer be anywhere.

Famous quotes by Mark Rothko:

"I have on occasion successfully dealt with this problem by tending to crowd the show rather than making it spare."

"From him I got my love for music, and for many years I was the classical music critic for magazines that have since folded, such as Musical America and High Fidelity. During the last year of his life, I would come to the studio, and he would arrange a corner for me with a canvas and paints. I don't think that I saw him paint. He didn't allow anyone to watch him. That was his own private affair."

"There will be an exhibition, ... The question is when and how large. It is difficult to convince collectors and museums to send the paintings to Israel. The question of insurance presents difficulties for the project, but we intend to do such an exhibition within two to three years."

"Since my pictures are large, colorful, and unframed, and since museum walls are usually immense and formidable, there is the danger that the pictures relate themselves as decorative areas to the walls."

"That is why we profess a spiritual kinship with primitive and archaic art."

"Small pictures since the Renaissance are like novels; large pictures are like dramas in which one participates in a direct way."

"Silence is so accurate."

"This would be a distortion of their meaning, since the pictures are intimate and intense, and are the opposite of what is decorative; and have been painted in a scale of normal living rather than an institutional scale."

"The myth holds us, therefore, not through its romantic flavor, not the remembrance of beauty of some bygone age, not through the possibilities of fantasy, but because it expresses to us something real and existing in ourselves, as it was to those who first stumbled upon the symbols to give them life."

"Art to me is an anecdote of the spirit, and the only means of making concrete the purpose of its varied quickness and stillness."

"And last, it may be worthwhile trying to hang something beyond the partial wall because some of the pictures do very well in a confined space."

"If our titles recall the known myths of antiquity, we have used them again because they are the eternal symbols upon which we must fall back to express basic psychological ideas."

"I also hang the pictures low rather than high, and particularly in the case of the largest ones, often as close to the floor as is feasible, for that is the way they are painted."

"We assert that the subject is crucial and only that subject matter is valid which is tragic and timeless."

"It is a widely accepted notion among painters that it does not matter what one paints as long as it is well painted. This is the essence of academicism."

"There is no such thing as good painting about nothing."