"I'm ready, man. Check it out! I am the ultimate badass! State of the badass art! You do not want to fuck with me. Check it out! Hey, Ripley, don't worry. Me and my squad of ultimate badasses will protect you! Check it out. Independently targeting particle-beam phalanx. WHAP! Fry half a city with this puppy. We got tactical smart missiles, phase plasma pulse rifles, RPGs. We got sonic, electronic ball-breakers! We got nukes, we got knives, sharp sticks..."

"All right, sweethearts, what are you waiting for? Breakfast in bed? It's another glorious day in the Corps. A day in the Marine Corps is like a day on the farm: Every meal's a banquet. Every paycheck's a fortune! Every formation's a parade! I love the Corps!"

"Close your eyes, baby!"

"[to the Alien Queen who is about to kill Newt] Get away from her, you BITCH!"

"Patrick Swayze - Jim Cunningham"

"James Duval - Frank"

"Katharine Ross - Dr. Lillian Thurman"

"Noah Wyle - Prof. Kennth Monnitoff"

"Daveigh Chase - Samantha Darko"

"Holmes Osborne - Eddie Darko"

"Mary McDonnell - Rose Darko"

"Drew Barrymore - Karen Pomeroy"

"Beth Grant - Kitty Farmer"

"Jena Malone - Gretchen Ross"

"Maggie Gyllenhaal - Elizabeth Darko"

"Jake Gyllenhaal - Donnie Darko"

"They Made Me Do It."

"Cellar Door."

"The only way to unwind the future is to follow the path."

"Why are you looking at me?"

"Why are you wearing that stupid man suit?"

"Dark. Darker. Darko."

"Be Afraid of the Dark."

"What would you do if you knew the future?"

"You can never go too far."

"Life is one long insane trip. Some people just have better directions."

"Every living creature on this earth dies alone."

"I-I know I'm not the best communicator, but... whatever happens to you, be honest, tell the truth, even if they do look at you funny. They will. But what you gotta understand, Son, is that almost all of those people are full of shit. [laughs] They're all part of this great big conspiracy of bullshit. And they're scared of people like you, because those bullshitters know that you're smarter than all of them. You know what you say to people like that? Hmm? "Fuck you.""

"[to Principal Cole] I don't think that you have a clue what it's like to communicate with these kids. And we are losing them to apathy, to this prescribed nonsense. They are slipping away."

"The children have to save themselves these days because the parents have no clue."

"Okay, now girls... I want you to concentrate. Failure is not an option. And Bethany, if you feel the need to vomit up there... just swallow it."

"What if you could go back in time and take all those hours of pain and darkness and replace them with something better?"

"Some people are just born with tragedy in their blood."

"If the sky were to suddenly open up... there would be no law... there would be no rule. There would only be you and your memories... the choices you've made and the people you've touched. The life that has been carved out from your subconscious is the only evidence by which you will be judged... by which you must judge yourself. Because when this world ends, there will only be you and him... and no one else."

"Dear Roberta Sparrow, I've reached the end of your book and there are so many questions that I need to ask you. Sometimes I am afraid of what you might tell me. Sometimes I am afraid this is not a work of fiction. I can only hope that the answers will come to me in my sleep. I hope that when the world comes to an end, I can breathe a sigh of relief, because there will be so much to look forward to."

"“You mess with Spidey, you mess with New York!” More than any other superhero, Spider-Man is New York. He's the kid from Queens, the blue-collar nerd who got bitten by a radioactive spider and became the world's most famous teenage crime fighter. In Sam Raimi's 2002 film, a random man in the crowd hollers the above line as a group of New Yorkers protect Spider-Man (Tobey Maguire) from his arch nemesis The Green Goblin (Willem Dafoe). It's a sincere moment, unburdened by the self-reflective seriousness found in the genre's contemporary efforts. Ironically for a film often cited as kickstarting the modern superhero movie trend, Raimi's Spider-Man is a bland superhero movie by today's standards. It is simply a story about a guy, the girl he loves and the city he shields from harm. It wasn't Raimi's intention to make a cinematic dissertation on the different types of heroism. Nor for that matter was he attempting to make a generic superhero movie. He set out to make a Spider-Man movie, and making a great Spider-Man movie requires making a great New York movie. As such, Raimi's version of New York is a place where fantasy and reality meet. There is no doubt that Spider-Man is a fantasy, as Peter reacts to his overnight transformation with a goofy grin because he's developed shredded abs. But even with his newfound powers he still suffers loss. He and the rest of New York don't freak out at the idea of a guy swinging between buildings. In this city and the world, Raimi creates within it, that seems perfectly normal. The director injects realism into the story by having his characters work mundane jobs to meet mundane ends like paying rent. They lead regular lives, and we are given hints of their everyday activities. In this film, New York is more than a setting, as Raimi gives his supporting characters lives outside of Spider-Man and The Green Goblin's ideological conflict."

"Elizabeth Banks – Betty Brant"

"Bill Nunn – Joseph "Robbie" Robertson"

"Joe Manganiello – Eugene "Flash" Thompson"

"J. K. Simmons – J. Jonah Jameson"

"Rosemary Harris – May Parker: Peter's aunt and Ben's wife"

"Cliff Robertson – Ben Parker: May's husband and Peter's uncle"

"James Franco – Harry Osborn: Norman's son"

"Kirsten Dunst – Mary Jane (MJ) Watson"

"Willem Dafoe – Norman Osborn/Green Goblin: Harry's dad"

"Tobey Maguire – Peter Parker/Spider Man"