"This is a good death. There's no shame in this, in a man's death. A man who has done fine works. We’re making a better world. All of them, better worlds."

"They can't stop the signal, Mal. They can never stop the signal."

"Can't stop the signal, Mal. Everything goes somewhere, and I go everywhere."

"You guys always bring me the very best violence."

"It was a very beautiful ceremony. Lenore wrote her own vows. I cried. Like a baby. A hungry, angry baby."

"She is starting to damage my calm!"

"I just don't get it. How's a man get so wrong? Cuttin' on his own face, rapin' and murdering — Hell, I'll kill a man in a fair fight... or if I think he's gonna start a fair fight. Or if he bothers me. Or if there's a woman. Or if I'm gettin' paid. Mostly only when I'm gettin' paid. But these Reavers... last ten years they show up like the bogeyman from stories. Eating people alive? Where's that get fun?"

"Shiny! Let's be bad guys."

"We're gonna explode!? I don't wanna explode!"

"I am a leaf on the wind. Watch how I soar."

"Let's go back to the part where Jayne gets knocked out by a ninety-pound girl, 'cause I don't think that's ever gonna get old."

"She's tore up plenty, but she'll fly true. [when asked by Mal about the status of Serenity, referring to both the ship and herself after the final battle]"

"This is the place. We'll buy you the time."

"At last, we can retire and give up this life of crime."

"Do you know what the definition of a hero is? Someone who gets other people killed. You can look it up later."

"We crashing again?"

"I'm assumin' y'all were listenin'? Did you hear us fight? [pause] Trap."

"Sorry about the throat. Expect you'd want to say your famous last words right now. Just one trouble. I ain't gonna kill you. Hell, I'm gonna grant your greatest wish. I'm gonna show you a world without sin."

"This is how it is. Anybody doesn't wanna fly with me anymore, this is your port of harbor. There's a lot of fine ways to die. I ain't waiting for the Alliance to choose mine. I mean to confound these bungers. Take my shot at getting to Miranda. Maybe find something I can use to get clear of this. So I hear a word out of any of you that ain't helping me out or taking your leave, I will shoot you down."

"I look out for me and mine. That don't include you 'less I conjure it does. Now you stuck a thorn in the Alliance's paw. That tickles me a bit. But it also means I got to step twice as fast to avoid them and that means turning down plenty of jobs. Even honest ones. Put this crew together with the promise of work, which the Alliance makes harder every year. Come a day there won’t be room for naughty men like us to slip about at all. This job goes south, there well may not be another. So here is us, on the raggedy edge. Don't push me, and I won't push you."

"What was that?"

"It's not safe … for them."

"The Reavers! They're all made up of rage. I can't shut them up!"

"I swallowed a bug."

"People don't like to be meddled with. We tell them what to do, what to think. Don't run, don't walk. We're in their homes and in their heads and we haven't the right. We're meddlesome."

"The television screen has become the retina of the mind's eye. That's why I refuse to appear on television, except on television. Of course, O'Blivion was not the name I was born with. That's my television name. Soon all of us will have special names, names designed to cause the cathode ray tube to resonate."

"I was once on a talk show with a psychiatrist who worked at the Clark Institute with criminals. He had seen my film, Videodrome and said to me, “I’m almost afraid to be sitting here next to you.” He was totally mystified as to how I could empathize with those states of mind and he obviously, could not. It is mostly intuitive with me. One of the reasons I make a movie is that I’m then in a position where I have to analyze and I enjoy that process.*My images come out of the process of making film. I do really think that movies work on the level of dream logic. However realistic or narrative they might like to think they are, they are dreamlike."

"The movie goes into more than the relatively simple issue of morality, like the ways in which television does alter us physically. It's what Marshall McLuhan was talking about — TV as an extension of our nervous systems and our senses."

"Videodrome is a bioelectrical addiction. Videodrome is the ultimate addiction."

"A vision of enormous impact!"

"A terrifying new weapon."

"A shocking new vision."

"First it controlled her mind, then it destroyed her body... Long live the new flesh!"

"First it controls your mind... then it destroys your body."

"I am the video word made flesh."

"Death to Videodrome! Long live the new flesh!"

"[handing Bianca the videotape] Careful... it bites."

"You know me and I sure know you, everyone."

"You'll forgive me if I don't stay around to watch. I just can't cope with freaky stuff."

"Your head, we have you head in the box."

"North America's getting soft, padrone. And the rest of the world is getting tough. Very, very tough. We're entering savage new times, and we're going to have to be pure... and direct... and strong... if we're gonna survive them. Now, you and this, uh, cesspool you call a television station... and, uh, your people who wallow around in it... and, uh, your viewers... who watch you do it— you're rotting us away from the inside. We intend to stop that rot."