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"[Powell's reported reaction to Leo Marks' script] Michael said, "Oh, that's me, a man who kills people with his camera"."
"For a morbid desire to gaze is one of the commonest obsessions in life. Unfortunately Michael Powell's new film is just a clever but corrupt and empty exercise in shock tactics which displays a nervous fascination with the perversion it illustrates."
"Even brilliant colour photography by Otto Heller cannot reconcile me to a film as loathesome as this. It exploits fears and Inhibitions for the lowest motives. It trades In the self-same kind of obsession that it relates."
"Instinct's a wonderful thing, isn't it, Mark? A pity it can't be photographed. [...] So, I'm listening to my instinct now. And it says all this filming isn't healthy, and that you need help."
"The silly bitch! She's fainted in the wrong scene!"
"Perhaps one would not be so disagreeably affected by this exercise in the lower regions of the psychopathic, were it handled in a more bluntly debased fashion. One does not, after all, waste much indignation on the Draculas and Mummies and Stranglers of the last few years."
"Take me to your cinema."
"Whatever I photograph, I always lose."
"Do you know what the most frightening thing in the world is? It's fear. So I did something very simple. Very simple. When they felt the spike... touching their throat, and knew I was going to kill them, I made them watch their own deaths. I made them see... their own terror as the spike went in. And if death has a face, they saw that too. But not you. I promised I'd never photograph you. Not you."
"He [Powell] has got to the trick knife lovingly embedded in the throat, to the voyeur with sound effects, to a nauseating emphasis on the preliminaries and the practice of sadism - and I mean sadism. He did not write Peeping Tom; but he cannot wash his hands of responsibility for this essentially vicious film."
"I'm afraid. And I'm glad I'm afraid."
"Today, I find I am convinced that it is a masterpiece. If in some afterlife conversation is permitted, I shall think it my duty to seek out Michael Powell and apologise. Something more than a change of taste must exist."
"Reading now what I wrote in 1960 I find that, despite my efforts to express revulsion, nearly everything I said conceals the extraordinary quality of Peeping Tom. See it, and spare a moment to respect the camerawork of Otto Heller."
"Ali Tataryn - Nurse Ashley"
"Jennifer Tilly - Tiffany Valentine"
"Marina Stephenson Kerr - Angela"
"Zak Santiago - Nurse Carlos"
"Summer H. Howell - Alice Pierce"
"Christine Elise - Kyle"
"Grace Lynn Kung - Claire"
"Fiona Dourif - Nica Pierce"
"Michael Therriault - Dr. Thaddeus Foley"
"Alex Vincent - Andy Barclay"
"Adam Hurtig - Multiple Malcolm"
"Brad Dourif - the voice of Chucky"
"Elisabeth Rosen - Madeleine"
"You know what, you're next."
"Aren't you the crazy bitch I talked to last night on the phone?"
"Sometimes I scare myself."
"I guess it's just me and you again tonight, pal."
"[From the trailer; to the audience; cackles] Yes! (Cackles again) A true classic.... NEVER goes outta style!"
"Holy shit! (Laughs) And they call me sick? This guy is, is, is... diabolical! I mean, what a piece of work! I'm actually a little envious."
"I just can't with this guy! I don't know whether to kill him or just take notes!"
"If I wanted you dead you'd be tits up by now. I was never gonna kill you, Nica. Believe me, there's worse things than death."
"Come on, Nica. Time to join the club."
"You know what, Andy? What if you really are crazy? Have you ever thought of that? Maybe you belong in the booby-hatch with Nica. Maybe this is just all happening in your head."
"Do me a favor, Chucky. Keep your fuckin' mouth shut."
"You wanna play? Let's play."
"(To Tiffany) I know who you are... and I'm coming for you... and for him."
"THIS IS THE END, FUCKER!"
"Steve Miner (uncredited) - Hippie taunting Deputy"
"Ada Washington - Ada"
"Gaylord St. James - Dr. John Collingwood"
"Marshall Anker - Sheriff"
"Martin Kove - Deputy"
"Fred Lincoln - Fred "Weasel" Podowski"
"Jeramie Rain - Sadie"
"Lucy Grantham - Phyllis Stone"
"Marc Sheffler - Junior Stillo"
"David A. Hess - Krug Stillo"