"[pointing out the blazing department store and melting bus to Roark] All right, the bus is just deflecting this, OK? It's coming back around, it's obviously got in the store, and we are dealing with very determined stuff here!"

"Hello, Machine! Love your work!"

"Catherine Keener - Amy Welles"

"Chris Bauer - George Higgins/Machine"

"Anthony Heald - Daniel Longdale"

"Peter Stormare - Dino Velvet"

"James Gandolfini - Eddie Poole"

"Joaquin Phoenix - Max California"

"Nicolas Cage - Tom Welles"

"Some doors should never be opened."

"Be careful when you kill a monster, that you don't become one yourself."

"You are never prepared for the truth."

"You can't prepare for where the truth will take you."

"You know the only difference between you and me? I will survive this and profit by it, whereas you, you will not."

"Why do you think people like the Christians hire people like me? To invite us to their dinner parties? It's our job to clean up the mess. To wipe their royal asses."

"Can you tell me if you had to make a choice... if you were forced to choose... between imagining her out there somewhere living a good life... being happy... but you don't know... you never find out... or the worst being true... her being gone... but you know... you finally know what's happened to her."

"I'll never get tired of hurting you, Eddie!"

"If someone never saw or sold a snuff film, they shouldn't give a damn what I ask about it, if they have they got a right to be nervous."

"Dance with the devil, the devil don’t change. The devil changes you."

"Hey! It's like a gas station, you pay before you pump!"

"There's things that you're gonna see that, that you can't unsee. They get in your head and they stay there."

"So you got a wife and a daughter and a nice little yellow house and a dog named 'Shep'. What the hell are you doing here?"

"He's a producer-slash-director-slash weirdo. He's like the Jim Jarmusch of S & M."

"[On selling porn] I don't buy it. I don't endorse it. I just point the way."

"I can hook you up, though. You name the vice I name the price."

"[watching a video of Machine torturing a woman] Oh, he's a lover, man... definitely loves what he does for a living."

"I wasn't beaten. I wasn't molested. Mommy didn't abuse me. Daddy never raped me. I'm only what I am. And that's all there is to it! There's no mystery. Things I do, I do them because I like them! Because I want to!"

"You know the best part of killing someone? The look on their face. It's that look. Not when they're threatened. Not when you hurt them. Not even when they see the knife. It's when they feel the knife go in. That's it. It's surprise. They just can't believe it's really happening to them. She had that look, the girl, when she knew it wasn't just porno."

"[after removing his mask for the first time] What'd you expect? A monster?"

"[dying from a gunshot wound to the neck] This is wrong, something's wrong. Oh, God, not like this. I'm supposed to have something more cinematic. Kill them, Machine... kill them all. [dies]"

"If there was no honor among perverts and pornographers, the whole fucking business would fall apart."

"[holding a picture of Welles' wife and daughter] What I could do with faces like these on film. On second thought, why would I need their faces?"

"You're not gonna kill me. You don't have it in you."

"That's it. She's dead. She's been dead a long fucking time and nobody gives a shit but you."

"My father always say " Two kind of people in this world. We other kind." — Kind kind."

"Why is there a duck?"

"I'm glad you're here. It makes me feel like I am too."

"You're not going to kill my duck are ya?"

"Look, I really do have to go find my duck."

"Los Angeles is a desert."

"Ryan Phillippe - Keenan"

"Jay Mohr - Mark"

"Angelina Jolie - Joan"

"Anthony Edwards - Roger"

"Sean Connery - Paul"

"Ellen Burstyn - Mildred"

"Gillian Anderson - Meredith"

"The sexy comedy with a twist."

"The comedy with a twist."