"Dr. Lewis Jaffe: Can you believe it? Just me and my little knife. Snip, snip, slice, slice...But this is just the beginning...You've seen her with her clothes off. Faces are a doddle compared to tits and ass. No hairlines."

"Jack Lint: This is information retrieval not information dispersal."

"Jack Lint: We've always been close, haven't we? Well, until this whole thing blows over, just stay away from me."

"Kurtzmann: It's been confusion from the word go! He's been overcharged for Information Retrieval Procedures and someone somewhere is trying to make us carry the can."

"Mr. Warrenn: And what the hell is this mess. An empty desk is an efficient desk...I don't know what's going on here, Lowry, but don't think you can intimidate us with your friends and relatives in high places. NOW SHAPE UP!"

"Mr. Warrenn: Ahhhh! Here we are. Your very own number, on your very own door. And behind that door, your very own office! Congratulations, DZ-stroke-oh-one-five. Welcome to the team!"

"Charles McKeown - Harvey Lime"

"Barbara Hicks - Mrs. Alma Terrain"

"Jim Broadbent - Dr. Jaffe"

"Kim Greist - Jill Layton"

"Peter Vaughan - Mr. Helpmann"

"Ian Richardson - Mr. Warrenn"

"Michael Palin - Jack Lint"

"Bob Hoskins - Spoor"

"Ian Holm - Mr. M. Kurtzmann"

"Katherine Helmond - Mrs. Ida Lowry"

"Robert De Niro - Archibald 'Harry' Tuttle"

"Jonathan Pryce - Sam Lowry"

"When I made "Brazil" I'd never read [George Orwell's] "1984"."

"Eagle eyes can save a life."

"Trust in haste, regret at leisure."

"Don't suspect a friend, report him."

"Listen, kid, we're all in it together."

"Listen, this whole system of yours could be on fire and I couldn't even turn on the kitchen tap without filling out a twenty-seven B stroke six... bloody paperwork."

"Well, that's a pipe of a different color."

"[to Jill] You won't believe this, I know it's going to sound incredible, but I've been dreaming about you. No, not like that. I mean, I love you - in my dreams - I love you. And, uh...Extraordinary, isn't it?"

"I do assure you, Mrs. Buttle, the Ministry is very scrupulous about following up and eradicating any error. If you have any complaints which you'd like to make, I'd be more than happy to send you the appropriate forms."

"Guard: Don't fight it, son. Confess quickly! If you hold out too long you could jeopardize your credit rating."

"Charlie, Department of Works: Bloody typical, they've gone back to metric without telling us."

"Bill, Department of Works: Mistakes? We don't make mistakes."

"Arresting Officer: That is your receipt for your husband... and this is my receipt for your receipt."

"'Ere I am, J.H. ...The ghost in the machine."

"All I can say is don't fall at the last fence. The finishing post's in sight. See you in the paddock... keep your eye on the ball."

"Jill? Yes... Sam I think I ought to tell you. I'm afraid she's upped stumps and retired to the pavilion. Thrown in the towel."

"Mr. Helpmann, I'm keen to get into Information Retrieval. Mr. Helpmann, I'm dying to get at this woman... no, no, no."

"Sorry, I'm a bit of a stickler for paperwork. Where would we be if we didn't follow the correct procedures?"

"Have you got a 27B stroke 6?"

"Yes, I always used to wonder if she wore falsies. False ears..."

"Yes... No... I don't know. I don't know what I want."

"Do you find Jesus in your films? “RoboCop” has a metaphor of Jesus. The reason I did it was because, for me, there were two metaphors. One is really Paradise Lost, which is when he comes to his house. He is already “RoboCop.” He doesn’t know who he is. He goes to his house and gets flashes of something wonderful that was there. His wife and his child, and the love of them. That’s lost paradise. He cannot touch, it but it was there. When I made it, this was important to me. It was the decision moment to me. I see this metaphor of Paradise Lost and standing at the Gates of Eden. The other metaphor, is that there is a resurrection. That is why he gets killed in an even more brutal way, because I felt that was a metaphor of crucifixion. Murphy gets killed and resurrects. He is dead and resurrected with another brain. It is very interesting if you read in the Gospels about Jesus being resurrected. He doesn’t say anything anymore. It is monosyllabic. But he, after resurrection, expresses himself monosyllabic with phrases of five or ten words. If you look at “Robocop,” that’s what he does. If you look at his eyes, you slowly start to see what he sees. Most things he says is, put down your weapon or whatever. At the end of the movie, because I was living in the United States, the metaphor is that he’s walking on water. In the front of the water there are the walls of an abandoned steel factory, where we shot. You can see the walls like the walls of Troy or Jerusalem. I put grit under the water so he could walk on water. To make him into an American Jesus, he turns to the bad guy and says, “I’m not going to arrest you anymore. I’m going to kill you.” That for me was the American Jesus."