"You ask him for it. (in response to the interrogator's question: "What, would you say, is the easiest way to get a weapon away from a Grammaton Cleric?")"

"Cleric, I can only hope one day to be as uncompromising as you."

"You clean, we'll sweep."

"It's just a vestigial word for a feeling you've never felt. - After Cleric Preston claims to be sorry"

"I assume you dream Preston?"

"But I being poor, have only my dreams, I have spread my dreams under your feet, tread softly because you tread on my dreams. (reading Aedh wishes for the Cloths of Heaven - W.B. Yeats)"

"...without love, without anger, without sorrow, breath is just a clock ticking."

"Its circular. You exist to continue your existence. What's the point?"

"I pay it gladly."

"I didn't feel anything."

"Tetragrammaton. There's nothing we can't do."

"Then you know what I'm going to do now?"

"Look at you! [Pause, then to himself] Look at you..."

"[After being taunted by DuPont, who is really Father] No. Not without incident."

"I am Arthur Frayn, and I am Zardoz. I have lived three hundred years, and I long to die. But death is no longer possible. I am immortal. I present now my story, full of mystery and intrigue — rich in irony, and most satirical. It is set deep in a possible future, so none of these events have yet occurred, but they may. Be warned, lest you end as I. In this tale, I am a fake god by occupation and a magician by inclination. Merlin is my hero. I am the puppet master. I manipulate many of the characters and events that you see. But I am invented, too, for your entertainment and amusement. And you, poor creatures, who conjured you out of the clay? [chuckles] Is God in show business, too?"

"John Alderton - Friend"

"Sara Kestelman - May"

"Charlotte Rampling - Consuella"

"Sean Connery - Zed"

"Into a world of eternal life, he brought the gift of death."

"I have seen the future and it doesn't work."

"Beyond 1984, Beyond 2001, Beyond Love, Beyond Death."

"For the finale of my 1974 film Zardoz, I wanted to shoot a scene of Sean Connery and Charlotte Rampling in which they age and die. This involved shooting with a fixed camera, so that we could take them out, age their clothes and faces, put them back in, shoot them a bit more, then take them out and age them further, until eventually they were skeletons that, in turn, crumbled away. This process took an entire day. Then, the camera assistant unloaded the camera and accidentally exposed the film to the light. This meant we had to spend another whole day shooting it. I also had to restrain Connery from killing the assistant – who soon afterwards changed his name and moved to Los Angeles. I spied him in a cafe in LA one day. “Is Sean in town?” he asked, with a quivering voice."

"Um, it was the 70’s, and I was doing a lot of drugs. Frankly, even I’m not entirely sure what parts of the movie are about."

"[A] genuinely quirky movie, a trip into a future that seems ruled by perpetually stoned set decorators ... The movie is an exercise in self-indulgence (if often an interesting one) by Boorman, who more or less had carte blanche to do a personal project after his immensely successful Deliverance."

"We seal ourselves herewith into this place of learning. Death is banished for ever. I direct that the Tabernacle erase from us all memories of its construction, so we can never destroy it if we should ever crave for death. Here, man and the sum of his knowledge will never die, but go forward to perfection."

"It's an ark. A ship. A spaceship. All this technology was for travel to the distant stars."

"[after Zed shoots the crystal] You have destroyed us. You found the flaw in the crystal. We are gone. You... are alone."

"You have penetrated me. There is no escape. You are within me. Come into my centre... Come into the centre of the crystal."

"Refraction of light. Infinite."

"Sleep was necessary for man when his waking and unconscious lives were separated. As eternals achieved total consciousness, sleep became obsolete, and second level meditation took its place."

"Edwin Craig - Antoine Rotelli"

"William Hootkins - Lt. Max Eckhardt"

"Lee Wallace - The Mayor"

"Tracey Walter - Bob the Goon"

"Jerry Hall - Alicia Hunt"

"Jack Palance - Carl Grissom"

"Michael Gough - Alfred Pennyworth"

"Billy Dee Williams - Harvey Dent"

"Pat Hingle - Commissioner James Gordon"

"Robert Wuhl - Alexander Knox"

"Kim Basinger - Vicki Vale"

"Jack Nicholson - The Joker/Jack Napier"

"Michael Keaton - Batman/Bruce Wayne"

"Justice is always Darkest before the Dawn."

"Only one will claim the night."

"I really wanted desperately to obviously do Two-Face… I wanted to see what I could do with it. It would have been different from Tommy Lee's. I've got my own kind of madness."

"I'll always stand by the first Batman. Even for its imperfections, people will never know how hard that movie was to do. A lot of that still holds up."

"We're standing there at one point, I'm in my bat suit, Jack is in Joker get-up and I just looked at him and said, 'We're grown men, right?'tq5 125325"

"There was no guarantee that any of this was going to play correctly when it was all said and done. There had never been a movie like it before. There was a lot of risk, too, with Jack looking the way he did and me stepping out in this new way. The pressure was on everybody. You could feel it."