"[talks to a now-frozen Sebastian Shaw] If you're in there, I'd like you to know that I agree with every word you said. We are the future. But... unfortunately, you killed my mother. [pulls out the Reichsmark coin that Shaw gave him years earlier] This is what we're going to do. I'm going to count to three, and I'm going to move the coin. [he slowly lunges the coin at his head] One... [It gets closer and closer] Two... Three. [coin penetrates his skull and shoots through his head, killing Shaw]"

"Once, mankind accepted a simple truth: that they were not alone in this universe. Some worlds man believed home to their Gods. Others they knew to fear. From a realm of cold and darkness came the Frost Giants, threatening to plunge the mortal world into a new ice age. But humanity would not face this threat alone. Our armies drove the Frost Giants back into the heart of their own world. The cost was great. In the end, their king fell, and the source of their power was taken from them. With the last great war ended, we withdrew from the other worlds and returned home at the Realm Eternal, Asgard. And here we remain as the beacon of hope, shining out across the stars. And though we have fallen into man's myths and legends, it was Asgard and its warriors that brought peace to the universe."

"Courage is immortal."

"Two Worlds. One hero."

"Q: Tom, when you were crafting Loki, was it with a trajectory towards The Avengers? Will Loki continue down that path in The Avengers?"

"Q: Tom, did you see Loki as the hero of the movie?"

"Q: Chris, with the physical demands of the role aside, how did you approach the role of The Mighty Thor?"

"At the beginning of this film, he’s certainly a brash, cocky warrior who’s about to inherit the keys to the kingdom, and his father thinks that he’s not ready. It’s the journey of him learning some humility through the film. I think he’s one of those people who has his heart in the right place. He’s doing what he’s doing for his family and to protect the kingdom, and he thinks it’s the right way to do it. It just happens to be a very aggressive way of doing it, which probably isn’t the right way. It’s about tempering that raw emotion that he drives off most of the time, into the right direction."

"VAN METER: Thor is a Norse god, so why does he speak with an old English accent and always say thee and thy?"

"VAN METER: What bothers me about Thor is the same thing that irks me about Superman: he is just too damn super. At least he doesn’t have just one weakness like Superman with kryptonite. Is the new Thor as omnipotent? Or is he more complicated?"

"I think we love the escapism of something like Cinderella and I think we do with Thor. And as long as we can believe that there is a connection between us and a bunch of guys riding on horses across a rainbow bridge in space and somehow connected to the Norse myths, we get the adventure, we get the escape, we get the immersion in another world that’s different from ours so we’re really happy to go to a big darkened room to see that."

"Idris Elba - Heimdall"

"Stellan Skarsgård – Dr Erik Selvig"

"Tom Hiddleston – Loki"

"Anthony Hopkins – Odin"

"Natalie Portman – Jane Foster"

"Chris Hemsworth – Thor"

"Jack Noseworthy - Miles Strickland"

"Shane Dzicek - Jarod Canter"

"Helena Mattsson - JJ"

"Devin Ratray - Bobby Saunders"

"Michael Cudlitz - Colonel Brendon"

"Tim Donovan - Surrogate Tom Greer"

"James Francis Ginty - Canter Surrogate"

"Boris Kodjoe - Andrew Stone"

"Ving Rhames - The Prophet"

"James Cromwell - Dr. Lionel Canter"

"Rosamund Pike - Maggie Greer"

"Radha Mitchell - Jennifer Peters"

"Bruce Willis - Tom Greer"

"Human perfection. What could go wrong?"

"How do you save humanity when the only thing that's real is you?"

"When I made Terminator 3, I learned something about directing actors to behave like robots. And one of the key things I learned is that if an actor tries to play a robot, he or she risks playing it mechanically in a way that makes the performance uninteresting. So how I approached the issue in that film and in Surrogates was instead to focus on erasing human idiosyncrasies and asymmetries—in posture, facial expressions, gait, etc. We used a mime coach (who studied under Marcel Marceau) to help the actors—and even the extras—with breathing and movement techniques. The actors really enjoyed the challenge."

"I've finally played a scene with Neville Sinclair."

"Terry O'Quinn - Howard Hughes"

"Paul Sorvino - Eddie Valentine"

"Tiny Ron - Lothar"

"Timothy Dalton - Neville Sinclair"

"[to Peevy after a bad date with Jenny] Why don't you stick that welding torch in my ear, and call it the end of a perfect day."

"Alan Arkin - Peevy"

"Jennifer Connelly - Jenny Blake"

"William Campbell - Cliff Secord"

"[as the FBI catch Sinclair's SA commandos and Cliff blasts off nearby, picks up Tommy gun] Lousy Krauts, let 'em have it!! [opens fire]"