"PA Announcer: [at St. Michael's hospital] I repeat: this is not a drill. This is the Apocalypse. Please exit the hospital in an orderly fashion. Thank you. l repeat."

"So you were an artist? Big deal. Elvis was an artist, but that didn't stop him from joining the service in time of war. That's why he's the King, and you're a schmuck."

"The whole book's gender-biased. A woman's responsible for original sin. A woman cuts Samson's coif of power. A woman asks for the head of John the Baptist. Read that book again sometime. Women are painted as bigger antagonists than the Egyptians and Romans combined. It stinks."

"Tell a person that you're the Metatron, and they stare at you blankly. Mention something out of a Charlton Heston movie and suddenly everybody's a theology scholar! May I continue uninterrupted?"

"As I was saying - prior to your firefighting episode - I am... the Metatron. [Bethany stares blankly.] Don't tell me the name doesn't ring a bell. [She continues staring blankly.] You people! If there isn't a movie about it, it's not worth knowing, is it?"

"(Last words) But l'm a fucking demon."

"Alanis Morissette – God"

"Janeane Garofalo – Liz"

"George Carlin – Cardinal Glick"

"Kevin Smith – Silent Bob"

"Jason Mewes – Jay"

"Salma Hayek – Serendipity"

"Jason Lee – Azrael"

"Chris Rock – Rufus, the 13th Apostle"

"Alan Rickman – Metatron"

"Linda Fiorentino – Bethany Sloane"

"Matt Damon – Loki"

"Ben Affleck – Bartleby"

"Look out Below"

"Prepare Thyself."

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

"John Alderton - Friend"

"Sara Kestelman - May"

"Charlotte Rampling - Consuella"

"Sean Connery - Zed"

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

"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."

"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?"

"[voiceover] It started — for me, it started — last Thursday, in response to an urgent message from my nurse, I hurried home from a medical convention I'd been attending. At first glance, everything looked the same. It wasn't. Something evil had taken possession of the town."

"Kenneth Patterson - Stanley Driscoll"

"Tom Fadden - Uncle Ira Lentz"

"Virginia Christine - Wilma Lentz"

"Ralph Dumke - Police Chief Nick Grivett"

"Jean Willes - Nurse Sally Withers"

"Carolyn Jones - Theodora 'Teddy' Belicec"

"King Donovan - Jack Belicec"

"Larry Gates - Dr. Dan 'Danny' Kauffman"