"OO Spool: My dog barks some. Mentally you picture my dog, but I have not told you the type of dog which I have. Perhaps you even picture Toto, from The Wizard of Oz. But I can tell you, my dog is always with me. WOOF!"

"Cousin Dell: I'm making my lunch!"

"Marietta Fortune: Buffalo hunting? I've gone buffalo hunting? What the fuck does that mean? Buffalo hunting!"

"Y'all take a listen, you'll hear the deep sound comin' down from Bobby Peru."

"Speaking of Jack, One eyed Jack's yearning to go a peeping in a seafood store!"

"Say it! I'll tear your fucking heart out, girl!"

"[to Lula] You know, I sure do like a girl with nice tits like yours who talks tough and looks like she can fuck like a bunny. Do you fuck like that? Cause if you do, I'll fuck you good. Like a big old jackrabbit bunny, jump all around that hole. Bobby Peru don't come up for air."

"It's Night of the Living fucking Dead!"

"[to Sailor] Uh oh. Baby, you'd better get me back to that hotel. You've got me hotter than Georgia asphalt."

"This whole world's wild at heart and weird on top."

"Cheez Louise! Sailor, baby, you're really something!"

"I've just met the good witch."

"I thought I saw a goddess. At that moment I decided to have her, even if I had to kill her man. But if I could have her without killing, all the better."

"Kichijirô Ueda - Commoner"

"Minoru Chiaki - Priest"

"Takashi Shimura - Woodcutter"

"Masayuki Mori - Takehiro Kanazawa"

"Machiko Kyô - Masako Kanazawa"

"Toshirô Mifune - Tajômaru"

"Human beings are unable to be honest with themselves about themselves. They cannot talk about themselves without embellishing. This script portrays such human beings — the kind who cannot survive without lies to make them feel they are better people than they really are. It even shows this sinful need for flattering falsehood going beyond the grave — even the character who dies cannot give up his lies when he speaks to the living through a medium. Egoism is a sin the human being carries with him from birth; it is the most difficult to redeem. This film is like a strange picture scroll that is unrolled and displayed by the ego. You say that you can’t understand this script at all, but that is because the human heart itself is impossible to understand. If you focus on the impossibility of truly understanding human psychology and read the script one more time, I think you will grasp the point of it."

"I like silent pictures and I always have. They are often so much more beautiful than sound pictures are. Perhaps they had to be. At any rate I wanted to restore some of this beauty. I thought of it, I remember in this way: one of techniques of modern art is simplification, and that I must therefore simplify this film."

"Rashomon is the closest to "perfect" a film can get."

"my favorite movie has always been Rashomon (1950) by Akira Kurosawa because it is just that: a story told from multiple perspectives."

"Woodcutter: I'm the one who should be ashamed. I don't understand my own soul."

"Wait! Stop! Either you die or my husband dies. One of you must die. To have my shame known to two men is worse than dying. I will go with the survivor."

"It's you two who are weak! [to Takehiro] If you are my husband, kill this man, then you can tell me to kill myself! But you're not a real man. That is why I was crying. I'm tired of this farce. [She continues laughing, and turns to Tajomaru] I thought Tajomaru might find some way out. [She clutches the bandit by his rags] I thought that if he would save me I would do anything for him! I wanted you to take me away. I would have been yours! [She spits in his face and laughs again] But he's not a man, either. He's just like my husband. [Tajomaru cringes] Remember, a woman loves a real man only. A man has to make a woman his by his sword."

"She became very pale and stared at me as though her eyes were frozen. She looked like a child when it turns suddenly serious. The sight of her made me jealous of that man. I started to hate him. I wanted to show her what he looked like, all tied up like that. I hadn't even thought of a thing like that before, but now I did."

"I saw the couple three days ago. It was a hot afternoon. Suddenly a cool breeze rustle the leaves. If it hadn't been for that wind, I wouldn't have killed him."

"Dead men tell no lies."