"[voiceover] Lo! 'Tis a gala night/Within the lonesome latter years./An angel throng, bewinged, bedight/In veils, and drowned in tears,/Sit in a theatre to see/A play of hopes and fears,/While the orchestra breathes fitfully/The music of the spheres."

"Men sometimes have strange motives for the things they do."

"There's lots of screaming when there's this much at stake!"

"Hilary Dwyer - Sara Lowes"

"[Hopkins and his men throw three securely-bound people into the moat as a witchcraft test] They swim... the mark of Satan is upon them. They must hang."

"Gen. Oliver Cromwell: The year is 1645, England is in the grip of bloody Civil War. On the one side stand the Royalist party of King Charles, on the other, Cromwell's Parliamentary party: the Roundheads. The Structure of law and order has collapsed. Local Magistrates indulge their individual whims, justice and injustice are dispensed in more or less equal quantities, without opposition. An atmosphere in which the unscrupulous revel, and the likes of Matthew Hopkins take full advantage of the situation. In a time where the superstitions of country folk are still a powerful factor, Hopkins preys upon them, torturing and killing in a supposed drive to eliminate witchcraft from the country, and doing so with the full blessing of what law there is. However, his influence is confined largely to the Eastern Sector of the country: East Anglia, which is held firmly in Cromwell's grasp, but not so firmly that Roundhead cavalry patrols have everything their way. For there persists an ever present threat of the remnants of the Royalist armies, desperately foraging for food, horses and supplies."

"I will find out the truth for you, have no fear."

"[voiceover] Out-out are the lights-out all!/And over each quivering form/The curtain, a funeral pall,/Comes down with the rush of a storm,/While the angels, all pallid and wan,/Uprising, unveiling, affirm/That the play is the tragedy, 'Man,'/And its hero, the Conqueror Worm."

"[a tied-up woman Hopkins has thrown into the moat to test for witchcraft drowns] She was innocent."

"Rupert Davies - John Lowes"

"I wore it seriously, me hero's sash of green and gold - proof that I'd saved a life as well."

"I was the hero of Hughes Creek. I can still see the glint in me Da's eye as he looked down at me, his hand on me shoulder. What did he call me that day? Ah, what did Da call me? That's right. He called me Sunshine."

"Kris McQuade - Ellen Kelly"

"Emily Browning - Grace Kelly"

"What I best recall is riding alone with the sun behind me, seeing me own shadow cantering ahead against the roadside weeds and willows, and leaving me stretched far behind galloping to chase it. Like a centaur in the picture books."

"Philip Barantini - Steve Hart"

"Kerry Condon - Kate Kelly"

"Naomi Watts - Julia Cook"

"Geoffrey Rush - Superintendent Francis Hare"

"Joel Edgerton - Aaron Sherritt"

"I've never shot a man, but if I do, so help me God, you'll be the first!"

"Laurence Kinlan - Dan Kelly"

"Orlando Bloom - Joe Byrne"

"Erika Felton - young Ellen Kelly"

"They say the trouble with the Irish is that they rely too much on dreams and not enough on gunpowder. Whereas the English were shy on dreams, as usual, but had plenty of the other. Now we had both."

"So our plans were set. One, the traitor, Aaron Sherritt; dead, as arranged. Two; the police special from Benalla coming to meet us, the line torn up to send the train to hell, as arranged. Three; Superintendent Hare, if he lives, easily worth an outlaw's mother. And four; the townspeople out of harms way, drinks on us, as arranged."

"There's a certain type of black tribesman that bends in the wind. Blends into the background. Mostly he employs the help of the dead to destroy other people. "The Night Dancer", they call him."

"[last words] Such is life."

"They said I'd lost what it meant to be human, maybe never had it in the first place, but wasn't this about protecting the ones I loved? The ones who gave me food, and shelter, even the clothes on me back? And therefore wasn't it now a war?"

"And wasn't this the challenge of your whole life, Superintendent? A feather in your cap? You can't catch me. You don't have a hope of catching me, so you take my friends instead - over a hundred men arrested, stuck in stinking cells without trial while their crops perish in the fields. And guess what? Not one of 'em caves in and tries to claim the reward. Not one of 'em. They loved me the just same and hated you all the more, didn't they? Did you really think I was gonna let 'em all rot?"

"Kiri Paramore - Constable Fitzpatrick"

"I'm sure there's no harm in being friendly."

"Ah! The monkey's been shot! Poor little bugger!"

"Jonathan Hardy - The Great Orlando"

"Geoff Morrell - Robert Scott"

"Charles "Bud" Tingwell - Premier Graham Berry"

"Rachel Griffiths - Susan Scott"

"Andrew Formosa - Park Ranger"

"Saskia Burmeister - Jane Jones"