"These are the Armies of The Night. They are 60,000 strong. They outnumber the cops three to one. They could run New York City. Tonight they're all out to get the Warriors."

"Hollywood forgives a lot when you have a hit. I don't know what to say about it, other than the fact that it was just a gift in terms of getting it. The studio hated it, and didn't even want to release it. There was a lot of friction with management at the time. Some of it might have been my fault."

"What made it a success with young people... is that for the first time somebody made a film within Hollywood, big distribution, that took the gang situation and did not present it as a social problem. Presented them as a neutral or positive aspect of their lives. As soon as you said in the old days gang movies it was how do we cure the pestilence and how do we fix the social waste. We want to take these kids, make sure they go to college... This was just a movie that conceptually was different. Accepted the idea of the gang, didn't question it, that was their lives, they functioned within that context. And the social problem wasn't were they going to college, but were they going to survive. It's the great Hawksian dictum, where is the drama? Will he live or die? That's the drama."

"D.J.: [last lines] Good news, Boppers: The big alert has been called off. It turns out that the early reports were wrong, all wrong. Now for that group out there that had such a hard time getting home, sorry about that. I guess the only thing we can do is play you a song. [the Warriors theme song, "In the City" plays]"

"Mercy: Yeah, that's right, Warriors. Just keep walkin'. Real tough muthas, ain't ya? You guys don't show me much. Why don't you dickheads just walk all the way back home, huh?"

"Masai: [addressing the Gramercy Riffs] Who are the Warriors? [no reply] There must be some word! [no reply] I want them all! I want ALL the Warriors! I want them alive, if possible. If not, wasted! But I want them. Send the word!"

"[Swan demands a one-on-one fight and he pulls out a gun] One on one? You're crazy. You're dead, all of you, and you know it. You're dead."

"[banging bottles together] Warriors, come out to play-i-ay!"

"It's still on and we're goin'. Cyrus sent an emissary this afternoon to make sure. Now, Cyrus don't want anybody packed and he don't want anybody flexing any muscle. So, I gave him my word that the Warriors would uphold the truce. [pause] Now everybody says that Cyrus is the one and only. I think we better go have a look for ourself."

"Just... disappear."

"Danny Huston — Michael"

"Benicio Del Toro — Jack Jordan"

"Naomi Watts — Cristina Peck"

"Sean Penn — Paul Rivers"

"When do we lose 21 grams, how much goes with them?"

"How much does guilt weigh?"

"This Fall, fate weighs in."

"How much does revenge weigh?"

"How much does love weigh?"

"They say we all lose 21 grams at the exact moment of our death... everyone. The weight of a stack of nickels. The weight of a hummingbird... a chocolate bar."

"How much does life weigh?"

"[After hitting his son upside the head to punish him for hitting his sister] There's no hitting in this house."

"If someone strikes you on your right cheek, turn your other to him also."

"Did you know that eating alone could cause kidney damage? And that's BAD."

"[From trailer] They say we all lose 21 grams... who will be next?"

"I just ran over a man and two little girls."

"God knows when a single hair moves on your head."

"You can't just walk up to a woman you barely know and tell her you like her. You don't know what she's going through.*"

"I haven't spoken to anyone in months.*"

"Whoever looks for the truth deserves punishment for finding it."

"Nothing I can do is going to bring them back."

"You know what I thought when mom died? I couldn't understand how you could talk to people again, how you could laugh... again. I couldn't understand how you could play with us. And no, no that's a lie, life does not just go on."

"How many lives do we live? How many times do we die? They say we all lose 21 grams... at the exact moment of our death. Everyone. And how much fits into 21 grams? How much is lost? When do we lose 21 grams? How much goes with them? How much is gained? How much is gained? Twentyone grams. The weight of a stack of five nickels. The weight of a hummingbird. A chocolate bar. How much did 21 grams weigh?"

"[Holding a glass jar containing his surgically removed heart] Ah. The culprit."