"Elektra is one of the reasons I got into television. I spent a year writing the movie, and it was supposed to be this gigantic movie, and then they decide they’re not going to make an $80 million movie, they’re going to make a $30 million movie, they bring in a director we didn’t know, you get fired, someone else comes in and rewrites the entire movie, but you still get credit because you wrote the first draft. Then you go to the premiere in Las Vegas, and 30 seconds into the movie you’re like, ‘Oh, [expletive].'"

"She was left for dead. Now she's back with vengeance."

"Born to fight. Trained to kill."

"Before she can find peace she will wage war."

"I literally, to this day, am still so embarrassed by that movie. I probably shouldn’t say this, but I know Jennifer Garner is too. She hired us to write the movie, which was pitched as something much more smart and sophisticated … it’s a blemish."

"She's the last thing that stands between good and evil."

"Jason Isaacs as DeMarco"

"Looks can kill."

"Somebody get me a tie! And it sure as Hell better be red!"

"You're in love with every woman you meet, Mr. Spirit. You say lovely things to all of us and you mean every word you say."

"Entertainment Weekly: So, how have you modernized The Spirit?"

"I'm gonna kill you all kinds of dead."

"My city, I can not deny her. My city screams. She is my mother. She is my lover, and I am her Spirit."

"She provides for me, my city does. She gives me everything I need."

"One thing we did was, we were talking about how the Spirit is physically very strong and can obviously take care of himself. He finds ways to protect himself and civilians in Central City. He'll use a manhole cover as a shield or something. He hates guns. But there's also the sense of the Spirit being sort of clumsy. He may walk into a wall or whatever. I was talking with Frank once, and he was telling me about how he wanted this punch to look-he was hoping for the Spirit to really look like he knew what he was doing, and this punch was a deadly hit, right? So when he reached back to show me the punch, he actually hit himself in the nose. [laughs] It was hilarious, because it was exactly what the Spirit would have done. It was just a perfect image, a metaphor for who the Spirit is."

"All the enemy has is gun to knives. I have the entire city as my weapon."

"Bowman: In the Director's Cut, when [] DeMarco [played by Jason Issacs] is killed, she skewers his pistol through the trigger; the trigger guard. I had to take that out because the MPAA thought it was too early in the movie to see that. Kirigi (Will Yun Lee) could not cut McCabe (Colin Cunningham), the agent, couldn't cut his head off. Then there was Typhoid's death at the end, when [she] throws the sign through her head, I had to trim 3 frames off the head of that. That was so there wasn't such a visceral impact on it, and it just softens it. But you need a visceral release when she kills Typhoid, because Typhoid theoretically just killed Abbey. So, among other things, these frames are back in there."

"IGN: Jennifer obviously really loves the part. Did you get the feeling that the press gave her a hard time about it?"

"Q:Didn't Elektra die in Daredevil?"

"[voiceover] There's something inside of every man that keeps him going long after he has any reason to. For years I kept going when going didn't seem to make any sense. And now I just had to keep going. I had to have the end come."

"[voiceover] When a man stops caring what happens, all the strain is lifted from him. Suspicion and worry and fear, all things that twist his thinking out of focus are brushed aside, and he can see people exactly as they are at last - as I saw Fay then: weak and frightened but basically as good as a person could be and hating herself for not being better. Suddenly, the only thing that mattered was that she live, it was the only way my having lived would make any sense. It was why I had been made like I was - to do something for her that she could not do for herself, and then to protect her so that she could go on, so that she could have the reason for living that I'd never had."

"I'd like to correct an erroneous impression you seem to have about me. you see, I'm not at all stupid. I may sound like I am, but I'm really not."

"Jason Patric - Kevin 'Kid' Collins"

"Rocky Giordani - Bert"

"Bruce Dern - Garrett "Uncle Bud" Stoker"

"Rachel Ward - Fay Anderson"

"Mike Hagerty - Truck Driver"

"George Dickerson - Doc Goldman"

"[voiceover] We sat there for another half hour or so, and he was talking every minute of it. The words poured out of his mouth, and they didn't mean a thing to me. They were just a lot of noises coming from a sickish-looking face. What other people said had never meant a thing to him, and now it was his turn. Now he was meaningless and what he said was meaningless."

"Nick Reding - Giles Cremorne"