"I have always been fascinated by the work of [Japanese animation director Hayao] Miyazaki. When we needed to get the Black Pearl back to the ocean, I thought, why are we limited to the rules of live-action filmmaking? Once those shackles are off, it is quite liberating. All sorts of ideas start to germinate. The crab is Tia Dalma's motif. Why not do something surreal and connected to her? Giving his escape a subtextual intention."

"The physics of a whirlpool this size overwhelmed the team at ILM [Industrial Light and Magic, the effects company]. The path we were heading down was not achieving the desired results so it all had to be reworked. The initial rendered backgrounds were used as out of focus plates for close-ups which bought us time by getting 100 or so shots in the pipeline and allowed us to completely rethink and re-render the maelstrom for all of the wide shots. This is the exact opposite of how you would normally go about producing this sequence. John Knoll and the team at ILM ultimately pulled it off, but it was a real nail-biter."

"She PRETENDED to love me! SHE betrayed ME!"

"[last words; after Turner stabbed his heart] Calypso..."

"You will not forestall my judgment-a!"

"Ten years, I devoted to the duty you charged me. Ten years, I looked after those who died at sea, and finally, when we could be together again, you weren't there. Why weren't you there?"

"[last words, in a stunned torpor as his plans fall apart] It's just...good business."

"Advise your brethren: you can fight, and all of you will die. Or you can not fight, in which case only most of you will die."

"The Brethren know they face extinction. All that remains is for them to decide where they make their final stand."

"You will listen to me! LISTEN! The Brethren will still be looking here to us, to the Black Pearl to lead, and what will they see? Frightened bilgerats aboard a derelict ship? No, no they will see free men and freedom! And what the enemy will see is the flash of our cannons, they will hear the ring of our swords, and they will know what we can do! By the sweat of our brows and the strength of our backs and the courage of our hearts! Gentlemen...Hoist the colours."

"You know the problem of being the last of anything, is by and by there’ll be none left at all."

"Dying is the day worth living for!"

"There's never a guarantee of coming back. But passing on, that's dead certain."

"For certain, you have to be lost to find a place that can't be found, elseways everyone would know where it was."

"[to Elizabeth, holding his heart in the Dead Man's Chest] It's always belonged to you. Will you keep it safe?"

"[after Barbossa asks for his plan]] Cuttlefish! Ay? Let us not, dear friends, forget our dear friends the cuttlefish...flippin' glorious little sausages. Pen them up together and they will devour each other without a second thought. Human nature, in'it? Ooor...fish nature. So yes! [Referring to Mistress Ching] We could hold up here, well-provisioned and well-armed, and half of us would be dead within the month! Which seems grim to me any way you slice it! Or! [starts to go to Gentleman Jocard and then walks around him]...ahh...as my learned colleague so naively suggests, we can release Calypso, and we can pray that she will be merciful-I rather doubt it. Can we, in fact, pretend that she is anything other than a woman scorned, like which fury Hell hath no? We cannot. Res ipsa loquitur, tabula in naufragio, we are left with but one option. I agree with, and I cannot believe the words are coming out of me mouth...Captain Swann. We must fight!"

"DeVeren Bookwalter - Bobby Maxwell"

"John Mitchum - Insp. Frank DiGiorgio"

"Bradford Dillman - Capt. Jerome McKay"

"Harry Guardino - Lt. Al Bressler"

"Tyne Daly - Insp. Kate Moore"

"Clint Eastwood - Insp. Harry Callahan"

"First, there was 1971's "Dirty Harry, then "Magnum Force" in 1973. And now on the Bi-centennial year, Harry Callahan is "THE ENFORCER"."

"The "dirtiest" Harry of them all!"

"Up is down. Well that's just maddeningly unhelpful."

"My peanut."

"[to Gibbs] Why is the rum always gone??"

"He needs the Pearl. "Captain Turner" needs the Pearl. [to Elizabeth] And you felt guilty. [to Barbossa] And you and your Brethren Court! Did no one come to save me just because they missed me? [Jack The Monkey, Ragetti, Marty, and Pintel raise their hands] I'm staying over there with them."

"Why should I sail with any of you? Four of you tried to kill me in the past. [points to Elizabeth] One of you succeeded."

"Joe Spano - Robber Mitchell (uncredited)"

"Rudy Ramos - Robber Mendez"

"Kenneth Boyd - Abdul"