"Your merciful God. He destroyed His own beloved rather than let a mediocrity share in the smallest part of His glory. He killed Mozart and kept me alive to torture! 32 years of torture! 32 years of slowly watching myself become extinct. My music growing fainter, all the time fainter till no one plays it at all, and his..."

"[to Father Vogler] My plan was so simple that it terrified me. First, I must get the death mass and then I must achieve his death....His funeral! Imagine it! The cathedral, all Vienna sitting there. His coffin, Mozart's little coffin in the middle. And then, in that silence, music! A divine music bursts out over them all. A great mass of death! Requiem mass for Wolfgang Mozart. Composed by his devoted friend, Antonio Salieri! Oh what sublimity! What depth! What passion in the music! Salieri has been touched by God at last. And God forced to listen! Powerless, powerless to stop it! I, for once, in the end, laughing at him! The only thing that worried me was the actual killing. How does one do that? Hmmm? How does one kill a man? It's one thing to dream about it. Very different when, when you, when you have to do it with your own hands."

"People are always talking about freedom. Freedom to live a certain way, without being kicked around. 'Course, the more you live a certain way, the less it feel like freedom. Me, I can change during the course of a day. I wake and I'm one person, when I go to sleep I know for certain I'm somebody else. I don't know who I am most of the time."

"Heath Ledger – Robbie Clark"

"Marcus Carl Franklin – Woody Guthrie"

"Richard Gere – Billy the Kid"

"Christian Bale – Jack Rollins/Pastor Jack"

"Ben Whishaw – Arthur Rimbaud"

"Cate Blanchett – Jude Quinn"

"It's like you got yesterday, today and tomorrow, all in the same room. There's no telling what can happen."

"Grain of Sand would become the underground hit of 1965 and Robbie Clark the new James Dean, Marlon Brando, and Jack Kerouac all rolled into one. But the movie disappointed her. The more they tried to make it youthful, the more the energies on screen seemed out of date. It wasn't the film they had dreamed, the film they had imagined and discussed. The film they each wanted to live."

"New York, August 7 of 1964. Congress grants President Johnson complete authority over the war while she studies painting at Cooper Union and he completes dubbing on his first major film. She tells him she's sure it will be a hit. And the cats across the roof, mad in love, scream into drainpipes. And it's I who am ready, ready to listen. Never tired, never sad, never guilty."

"It's a fierce sort of feeling, thinking something is expected of you but you don't know exactly what it is. Brings forth a weird kind of guilt."

"All they want from me is finger-pointin' songs. I only got ten fingers."

"I know I have a sickness festering somewhere. I don't mean like Woody Guthrie, wasting away in some hospital. I couldn't do that, decay like that. That's nature's will, and I'm against nature. I don't dig nature at all. The only truly natural things are dreams, which nature cannot touch with decay."

"You don't have to write anything down to be a poet. Some work in gas stations. Some shine shoes. I don't really call myself one because I don't like the word. Me? I'm a trapeze artist. Sighting it and hearing it and breathing it in; rubbing it all in the pores of my skin. And the wind between my eyes, milk and honey in my comb."

"Woody Guthrie was dead, Little Richard was becoming a preacher, so whether you're a folksinger or a Christian, rock 'n' roll was the devil. Me? I was in a ditch, up a cliff, out of step, ready to quit. I wrote the kind of stuff you write when you have no place to live and you're wrapped up in the fire pump. I nearly killed myself with pity and despair. And then I wrote it. It was like swimming in lava. Skipping, kicking, catching a nail with your foot. Seeing your victim hanging from a tree."

"Seven simple rules for life in hiding:"

"You know, it's nature's will. And I'm against nature. I don't dig nature at all."

"I accept chaos. I don't know whether it accepts me."

"Good and evil were invented by people trapped in scenes!"

"I don't need to look to someone else to tell me I'm good. Slaughter me for all I care; I refuse to be hurt."

"Everybody knows I'm not a folk singer."

"Yeah, it's chaos, it's clocks, it's watermelons, it's everything."

"God, I'm glad I'm not me."

"Yeah, I have none of those feelings."

"See, you just want me to say what you want me to say."

"How can I answer that if you got the nerve to ask me?"

"[Looking up at a giant Jesus on the cross] Do your early stuff!"

"[To a crucifix] How does it feel?"

"Powerful as a tropical storm!"

"BIG As The Fog-Shrouded Andes!"

"Pat Flaherty - Mike"

"Noah Beery, Jr. - Joe Souther"

"Don Barry - "Tex" Gordon"

"John Carroll as "Gent" Shelton"

"Victor Kilian - "Sparks" Reynolds"

"Sig Ruman - John "Dutchy" Van Ruyter"

"Allyn Joslyn - Les Peters"

"Thomas Mitchell - "Kid" Dabb"

"Pedro Regas - Pancho"

"Rita Hayworth - Judy MacPherson"

"Richard Barthelmess - Bat MacPherson"

"Jean Arthur - Bonnie Lee"

"Cary Grant - Geoff Carter"

"Each Day a Rendezvous With Peril... Each Night a Meeting With Romance!"

"Romance as glorious as the towering Andes!"

"Thrilling As Love Born Amid A Thousand Fabulous Adventures!"

"1939's Greatest Screen Adventure!"

"Thundering DRAMA!"