Rumble Fish

"If you're going to lead people, you have to have somewhere to go."

"California's like a beautiful, wild... beautiful, wild girl on heroin... who's high as a kite, thinkin' she's on top of the world, not knowing she's dying even if you show her the marks."

"Blind terror in a fight can easily pass for courage."

"You know, if there were gangs around like in the old days, I'd be running things, not you. You'd be second lieutenant. You might have gotten by for a while on the Motorcycle Boy's rep, but you have to be smart to run things. You ain't got your brother's brains. It's nothing personal, Rusty James. But nobody would follow you into a fight because you'd get people killed - and nobody wants to be killed."

"Time is a funny thing. Time is a very peculiar item. You see when you're young, you're a kid, you got time, you got nothing but time. Throw away a couple of years, a couple of years there... it doesn't matter. You know. The older you get you say, "Jesus, how much I got? I got thirty-five summers left." Think about it. Thirty-five summers.!!!!!"

"Rusty James can't live up to his brother's reputation. His brother can't live it down."

"The Motorcycle Boy's Never Coming Back"

"No leader can survive becoming a legend."

"Matt Dillon as Rusty James"

"Mickey Rourke as the Motorcycle Boy"

"Diane Lane as Patty"

"Dennis Hopper as Father"

"Diana Scarwid as Cassandra"

"Vincent Spano as Steve"

"Nicolas Cage as Smokey"

"Chris Penn as B.J. Jackson"

"Laurence Fishburne as Midget"

"William Smith as Patterson the Cop"

"Glenn Withrow as Biff Wilcox"

"Tom Waits as Benny"

"Sofia Coppola as Donna"

"S.E. Hinton as Hooker on strip"