"I know this sounds crazy, but ever since yesterday on the road, I've been seeing this shape. Shaving cream, pillows...Dammit! I know this. I know what this is! This means something. This is important."

"Old Man: [about the UFOs] They can fly rings around the moon, but we're years ahead of them on the highway."

"I figured it out, that's all. Will you just listen?... Have you ever looked at something and it's crazy, and then you looked at it in another way and it's not crazy at all?... Don't be scared. Just don't be scared. I feel really good. Everything's gonna be all right. I haven't felt this good in years."

"Isaac Asimov: Well, I liked Star Wars. I thought Battlestar Galactica was such a close imitation of Star Wars, emphasizing the less attractive portions, that I was a little impatient with it. And as for Close Encounters, I'm afraid I detested that. It was too noisy and parts of it were just silly."

"Cary Guffey - Barry Guiler"

"J. Patrick McNamara - Project Leader"

"Bob Balaban - David Laughlin"

"Melinda Dillon - Gillian Guiler"

"Teri Garr - Ronnie Neary"

"Honey... Ronnie... Wake up. You're not gonna believe what I saw!... I never would have believed it. There was this, uh, in the cab, there was this... it was a red whoosh... You know those pictures in the National Geographic about the Aurora Borealis? This is better than that! Come on! Ronnie, I need you to see something with me. It's really important. [wakes his kids] Sylvia, come on. We're going on a little adventure. Toby! Brad! Come on. Get up. Up!... It's better than Goofy Golf! Come on!"

"François Truffaut - Claude Lacombe"

"Richard Dreyfuss - Roy Neary"

"Close Encounter of the First Kind - Sighting of a UFO. Close Encounter of the Second Kind - Physical Evidence. Close Encounter of the Third Kind - Contact. WE ARE NOT ALONE"

"We are not alone."

"Laughlin: We didn't choose this place! We didn't choose these people! They were invited!"

"Major Benchley: [holding up a photo] Ladies and gentlemen, this is a flying saucer. It's made of pewter, made in Japan, and thrown across the lawn by one of my children. I just wanted to point that out to you to show that we're not all polished brass about these things. Also to make a point that last year, Americans shot more than seven billion photographs at a record of 6.6 billion dollars for film, equipment and processing. Now with all those shutters clicking, where is the indisputable, photographic evidence?"

"There are many stories about Michael Sullivan. Some say he was a decent man. Others say there was no good in him at all. But I once spent 6 weeks on the road with him, in the winter of 1931. This is our story."

"Joe Grifasi — Fausto"

"Nancy Mette — Bridey Mae Tolliver"

"Josh Mostel — Cabell Testerman"

"Bob Gunton — C.E. Lively"

"John Sayles — Hardshell Preacher"

"Kevin Tighe — Hickey"

"Gordon Clapp — Griggs"

"Ken Jenkins — Sephus Purcell"

"David Strathairn — Sid Hatfield"

"Will Oldham — Danny Radnor"

"Mary McDonnell — Elma Radnor"

"James Earl Jones — "Few Clothes" Johnson"

"Chris Cooper — Joe Kenehan"

"At the coal company they use you until you wear out."

"It takes more than guns to kill a man."

"I was putting up blackberries when Trammel Blankenship came shoutin' up the holler that the Number 5 had blown. I remember I took the pot off the stovetop and washed my hands before I went down. It took two days to dig through. And then when they brung 'em up, you couldn't tell which was which. They found blood on the walls from fellas trying to claw their way out. Mrs. Elkins, Mrs. Mounts, Bridey Mae, me ... we all lost our men in that fire. Danny were seven then. Now he's back in that same hole."

"'Round here, there's the Missionary folks. They's the hardshell Baptists. Then there's the Freewill folks, which is your softshell Baptists. Right now, I preach for both."

"[Narrating] All we got is our misery, Joe Kenehan used to say, and the least we could do is share it."

"We done it mama! We're gonna have the union!"

"[Narrating] It were 19 and 20 in the southwest fields and things was tough. The miners was trying to bring the union to West Virginia and the coal operators and their gun thugs was set on keeping them out."

"Now you watch your mouth, peckerwood. I've been called nigger, and I can't help that's the way white folks is, but I ain't never been called no scab!"

"I've met Mr. Felts. I wouldn't piss on him if his heart was on fire or ice was burned with paintings."

"I take care of my people. You bring 'em trouble, and you're a dead man. Sleep tight, Kenehan."

"Fellas, we’re in a hole full of coal gas here. The tiniest spark at the wrong time is going to be the end of us. So we got to pick away at this situation, slow and careful. We got to organize and build support. We got to work together. Together! Till they can’t get their coal out of the ground without us cause we’re a union! Cause we’re the workers damn it and we take care of each other!"

"You think this man is the enemy? Huh? This is a worker! Any union keeps this man out ain't a union, it's a goddam club! They got you fightin' white against colored, native against foreign, hollow against hollow, when you know there ain't but two sides in this world - them that work and them that don't. You work, they don't. That's all you got to know about the enemy."

"Ciarán Hinds - Finn McGovern"

"Daniel Craig - Connor Rooney"

"Dylan Baker - Alexander Rance"