"The natural world is arrayed against the artificial scene; conscience is deployed against convention. If you've never seen Blow-Up, see it now, if only to see what part of the world was like 40 years ago."

"David Hemmings - Thomas"

"Sarah Miles - Patricia"

"I revisited Blow-Up in a shot-by-shot analysis. Freed from the hype and fashion, it emerges as a great film, if not the one we thought we were seeing at the time. This was at the 1998 Virginia Festival of American Film in Charlottesville, which had "Cool" as its theme. The festival began with the emergence of the Beat Generation and advanced through Cassavetes to Blow-Up — after which the virus of Cool leaped from its nurturing subculture into millions of willing new hosts, and has colored our society ever since, right down to and manifestly including South Park."

"Michelangelo Antonioni's Blow-Up opened in America two months before I became a film critic, and colored my first years on the job with its lingering influence. It was the opening salvo of the emerging "film generation," … the highest-grossing art film to date, was picked as the best film of 1967 by the National Society of Film Critics, and got Oscar nominations for screenplay and direction. Today, you rarely hear it mentioned. Young audiences aren't interested any more in a movie about a "trendy" London photographer who may or may not have witnessed a murder, who lives a life of cynicism and ennui, and who ends up in a park at dawn, watching college kids play tennis with an imaginary ball. The twentysomethings who bought tickets for Blow-Up are now focused on ironic, self-referential slasher movies."

":DLR Soldier: We are headed for the green-zone, our area of security and reconstruction, designated as District One. District One is located on the Isle of Dogs. Although the Isle of Dogs is completely safe, the surrounding area of London is not. There are a large number of bodies still left to be cleared from the original outbreak of infection. Rats and wild dogs are prevalent, as is disease. New arrivals are reminded, for their own safety, it is absolutely forbidden to cross the river and leave the security zone. You will be joining 15,000 civilians who are already resident in District One. As we approach your new home, you will notice a dramatically increased military presence. The U.S. Army is responsible for your safety. We will do everything we can do to make your repatriation as easy as possible. Inside District One, however, we believe you'll be pleasantly surprised. We have hot and cold running water, 24-hour electricity, a medical center, a supermarket, and even a pub."

"This is a fascinating picture, which has something real to say about the matter of personal involvement and emotional commitment in a jazzed-up, media-hooked-in world so cluttered with synthetic stimulations that natural feelings are overwhelmed."

"The photographer in Blow-Up, who is not a philosopher, wants to see things closer up. But it so happens that, by enlarging too far, the object itself decomposes and disappears. Hence there's a moment in which we grasp reality, but then the moment passes. This was in part the meaning of Blow-Up."

"Give me your money. Do it."

"You'll get your pictures. I promise. I always keep my word."

"You ever do any modeling? Fashion stuff, I mean. You've got it."

"What's so important about my bloody pictures?"

"Simon Pegg as Graeme Willy"

"There are many ways to lie, Mr. Claggert, but there is only one way to tell the truth."

"Mr. Seymour, officers are to wear swords all the time from now on."

"You have only two duties here — to fight and to obey."

"Weigh what you speak, master-at-arms, there is the rope and the yardarm for false witness in peace as in war."

"I am just a man, not fit to do the work of God... or the Devil."

"Aye! He's quite a hand for jokes. Always cheerful, too. Always smiling, waving at people. Lovely little character."

"Terence Stamp - Billy Budd"

"Robert Ryan - John Claggart, Master d'Arms"

"Peter Ustinov - Edwin Fairfax Vere, Post Captain"

"Melvyn Douglas - The Dansker, sailmaker"

"Paul Rogers - Philip Seymour, 1st Lieutenant"

"John Neville - Julian Radcliffe, 2nd Lieutenant"

"David McCallum - Steven Wyatt, Gunnery Officer"

"Ronald Lewis - Enoch Jenkins, maintopman"

"Lee Montague - Squeak, Mr. Claggart's assistant"

"Thomas Heathcote - Alan Payne, maintopman"

"Ray McAnally - William O'Daniel, maintopman"

"Robert Brown - Talbot"

"John Meillon - Neil Kincaid, maintopman"

"Cyril Luckham - Hallam, Captain of Marines"

"Niall MacGinnis - Captain Nathaniel Graveling"

"What do you know, the geek shall inherit the Earth."

"Sometimes you just gotta roll the dice."

"Over the last 60 years, the human race has been drip-fed images of my face, on lunchboxes and t-shirts and shit. It’s in case our species do meet, you don’t have a fucking spaz attack!"

"Evolution, baby."

"Get your goddamn hands off my motherfucking junk!"

"(to Graeme, who is drawing a portrait of him) Are you going to draw me like one of your French girls, Jack?"

"You were amazing, Graeme! That cop didn’t suspect a thing! And Clive… you didn’t pee your pants."

"Yo, fucknuts! It’s probing time."

"Clive, I can feel your boner."

"Clive likes boning space bears!"

"He needs our help. Sometimes you just got to roll the dice."

"We’re just a couple of regular guys on a tour of the less touristy side of the American Midwest."

"(in Klingon) Graeme. Strike this woman."

"Aliens aren’t called Paul."

"(after being asked about having sex with a girl dressed like an Ewok) Well, she was furry nice."