Jurassic Park (film)

"[responding to an unimpressed 10-year-old] Now try to imagine yourself in the Cretaceous Period. You get your first look at this "six foot turkey" as you enter a clearing. He moves like a bird, lightly, bobbing his head. And you keep still because you think that maybe his visual acuity is based on movement like T. rex; he'll lose you if you don't move. But no, not Velociraptor. You stare at him…and he just stares right back. And that's when the attack comes. Not from the front, but from the side. [brings two fingers together with a whooshing sound] From the other two raptors…you didn't even know were there. [beat] Because Velociraptors a pack hunter, you see, he uses coordinated attack patterns and he is out in force today. And he slashes at you with this: [produces a claw] a six-inch retractable claw, like a razor, on the middle toe. He doesn't bother to bite your jugular like a lion, oh no…he slashes at you here [makes slashing motions below the child's chest] or here… [above the groin] or maybe across the belly, spilling your intestines. The point is, you are alive when they start to eat you. So, you know…try to show a little respect."

"[seeing the Brachiosaur for the first time] Uh…it's…it's a dinosaur!"

"[stunned after seeing the dinosaurs for the first time] They're moving in herds. They do move in herds."

"The world has just changed so radically, and we're all running to catch up. I don't want to jump to any conclusions, but look… Dinosaurs and man, two species separated by 65 million years of evolution, have just been suddenly thrown back into the mix together. How can we possibly have the slightest idea what to expect?"

"T. rex doesn't want to be fed. He wants to hunt. Can't just suppress 65 million years of gut instinct."

"Hammond, after some consideration, I've decided not to endorse your park."

"[on the Triceratops] Ellie, this one was always my favorite when I was a kid. And now I've seen one, it's the most beautiful thing I ever saw."

"Your scientists were so preoccupied with whether they could that they didn’t stop to think if they should."

"John, the kind of control you're attempting simply is…it's not possible. If there is one thing the history of evolution has taught us it's that life will not be contained. Life breaks free, it expands to new territories and crashes through barriers, painfully, maybe even dangerously, but, uh…well, there it is."

"I'm simply saying that life, uh…finds a way."

"What have they got in there, King Kong?"

"Now, eventually you do plan to have dinosaurs on your, on your dinosaur tour, right? Hello?"

"You did it. You crazy son of a bitch, you did it. [referring to Hammond after finally seeing a dinosaur]"

"[looking at the Triceratops droppings] That is one big pile of shit."

"Boy, do I hate being right all the time."

"Must go faster…"

"[after he, Muldoon and Sattler escape the T. rex in a Jeep] Think they'll have that on the tour?"

"[seconds before being eaten by a raptor] Clever girl."

"[when trying to save a worker from the raptor] Shoot her! SHOOT HER!!"

"They should all be destroyed."

"Dammit, even Nedry knew better than to mess with the raptor fences!"

"Doctor Grant, my dear Doctor Sattler, welcome...to Jurassic Park."

"[to Donald Gennaro, referring to Ian Malcolm] I bring scientists, you bring a rockstar."

"[repeated line] Spared no expense."

"[Watching Ian Malcolm from a security camera] I really hate that man."

"[To Dennis Nedry] Dennis, our lives are in your hands, and you have Butterfingers?!"

"It's a UNIX system, I know this!"

"Don't get cheap on me, Dodgson. That was Hammond's mistake."

"[Met in jungle by dilophosaurus about to kill him] Yeah...yeah, that's nice. Gotta go!"

"[Repeated line] Hold on to your butts."

"I am often asked if I would have liked to have been involved with Jurassic Park. The plain answer is no. Although excellent, it is not with all its dollars what I would have wished to do with my career. I was always a loner and worked best that way. Since the very beginning I fought and struggled under constant pressure to keep the design and final result within my hands. As time moved on this became more difficult, until I was forced to bow to the fact that my method of working, in the financial sense, was no longer practical. Model animation has been relegated to a reflection, or a starting point for creature computer effects that has reached a high few could have anticipated. However, for all the wonderful achievements of the computer, the process creates creatures that are too realistic and for me that makes them unreal because they have lost one vital element - a dream quality. Fantasy, for me, is realizing strange beings that are so removed from the 21st century. These beings would include not only dinosaurs, because no matter what the scientists say, we still don't know how dinosaurs looked or moved, but also creatures of the mind. Fantastical creatures where the unreal quality becomes even more vital. Stop-motion supplies the perfect breath of life for them, offering a look of pure fantasy because their movements are beyond anything we know."

"It was like one of those moments in history, like the invention of the light bulb or the first telephone call... A major gap had been crossed and things were never going to be the same."

"For me, honestly, if I had the choice, I would not have chosen to bifurcate my attention between Schindler’s List and Jurassic Park, because that in itself was a very bipolar experience for me. To be shooting the story of the Holocaust and at the same time, getting these effects of dinosaurs from an entirely different kind of motion picture genre to look believable to audiences."

"An Adventure 65 Million Years in the Making"

"The most phenomenal discovery of our time … becomes the greatest adventure of all time."

"Sam Neill – Dr. Alan Grant"

"Laura Dern – Dr. Ellie Sattler"

"Jeff Goldblum – Dr. Ian Malcolm"

"Richard Attenborough – John Hammond"

"Martin Ferrero – Donald Gennaro"

"Bob Peck – Robert Muldoon"

"Wayne Knight – Dennis Nedry"

"Samuel L. Jackson – Ray Arnold"

"Ariana Richards – Lex Murphy"

"Joseph Mazzello – Tim Murphy"