Daredevil (film)

"[narrating] I had lost my sight, but I got something back in return. My remaining four senses functioned with superhuman sharpness. But most amazing of all, my sense of sound gave off a kind of radar sense."

"[narrating] High above the city streets, I trained my body and my senses. An acute sense of touch gave me both strength and balance, until the city itself became my playground."

"[narrating] I waited outside the Olympic for my father. In some ways, I'm still waiting. Nobody cared much about the death of a washed-up prizefighter... nobody but me."

"[narrating] I would keep my promise. I would help those that others wouldn't. I would seek justice... one way or another."

"Can one man make a difference? There are days when I believe, and others when I have lost all faith."

"Mister Quesada, for your sake, I hope justice is found here today... before justice finds you."

"Hey, that light at the end of the tunnel? Guess what? That's not heaven. That's the C train!"

"When it rains, it's like there's a rooftop on the world. Each raindrop makes a sound the first time it falls on a surface. Just then, it's like I-I... it's like I can see again. And I-I just want to... I just want to see you."

"I tried, Father. I tried. This is who I am."

"If there are no eyewitnesses, I mean, you know, Bigfoot has eyewitnesses."

"[narrating] Hell’s Kitchen is my neighborhood. I prowl the rooftops and alleyways at night. Watching from the darkness. Forever in darkness. A guardian devil."

"You should know that the only reason I got dressed up for this thing was that I wanted to look beautiful for you. I wish you could see me tonight."

"It's just... good things don't happen to me very often. When they do, I get scared."

"You don't know how I feel. I want revenge."

"I want to look into the eyes of my father's killer as he dies."

"I missed. I NEVER miss!"

"I want a bloody costume!"

"You're good, baby, I'll give you that. But me? I'm magic."

"'Man without fear' [chuckles] Looks like I found something you're afraid of. Let's bring on the pain! Let's bring on the noise!"

"The press want a Kingpin, so I'll give them a Kingpin. Get me Bullseye."

"Nobody's innocent. Nobody."

"It's a shame you came here wounded. I would've loved to fight you in your prime. They called you the man without fear. If that's true, why are you afraid to show your face?"

"There are alligators in the sewers! Don't ride my ass about the alligators. I got a friend in Sanitation, okay? He's seen them!"

"That place is gonna be crawling with people, rich people! People who pay their legal fees with money, not with fish, or with-with-with wheels of cheese, or with sports supplies! I'm gonna fill you in on a little secret, Matt. This doesn't look like a law office, okay? It looks like the set of goddamn "Sanford and Son". Every time I walk in, I'm waiting for Lamont to come down the stairs!"

"Matt Murdock's answering machine: Matt, it's Heather. Are you there? Of course you're not there. You're never there. At least, not for me. Look, I didn't want to do this over the phone, but it's not like you've given me any choice. I mean, It's been three months, and I've never even seen your apartment. Every time we sleep together, I wake up in the morning alone. I mean, Jesus, where do you go at three o'clock in the morning?"

"Jack Kirby: You said to look out for anything weird, yes? Well, it's some pretty weird shit right here, man, right?"

"Q: How did you prepare to play a blind man?"

"I was very familiar with the Kingpin. When I read the comic books, that was the only person I read it for. Growing up like I did, I never thought I'd be able to portray this guy. When they came to me and said I could be the Kingpin and I get to fight Ben, I said, 'Yeah!' It was like a dream come true.""

"There must be a woman, and in "Daredevil" there is one (only one, among all those major make characters, although the fragrant Ellen Pompeo has a slink-on). She is Elektra Natchios (Jennifer Garner), who, like her classical namesake, wants to avenge the death of her father. By day, she is, well, pretty much as she is by night. She and Daredevil are powerfully attracted to each other, and even share some PG-13 sex, which is a relief because when superheroes have sex at the R level, I am always afraid someone will get hurt. There is a rather beautiful scene where he asks her to stand in the rain because his ears are so sensitive they can create an image of her face from the sound of the raindrops."

"Daredevil describes himself as a "guardian devil," and that means there are guardian angels, and that means God exists and, by a process of logical deduction, that Matt Murdock is a Catholic. Please address your correspondence to Rome. The movie is actually pretty good. Affleck and Garner probe for the believable corners of their characters, do not overact, are given semi-particular dialogue, and are in a very good-looking movie. Most of the tension takes place between the characters, not the props. There is, of course, a fancy formal ball to which everyone is invited (Commissioner Gordon must have been at the rival affair across town)."

"Q: In this movie you’re playing an unrelentingly bad villain. Did you work on finding the human side of the villain?"

"Q: How does Daredevil compare to other comic book heroes?"

"‘Daredevil’ was an R and I had to cut things out to make it a PG-13 and this is just like, there is so much stuff in it that I thought, ‘Oh my God, we’re dead.’ But we made it which is amazing. You know what’s funny is that what made ‘Daredevil’ an R is there was this scene where Bullseye kills Elektra, he gutted her – that was okay. He kissed her afterwards and then he threw her down. The kiss gave us an R. Isn’t that weird? Its okay to kill a girl, but you just can’t kiss her afterwards because somehow that’s repulsive. I don’t know."

"Last time it was like, ‘We love “Daredevil,” but we don’t want to do horns and a costume. It’s silly.’ It was like, ‘But that’s it. That’s the character.’ That’s the hard part. Fans get angry and are like, ‘He’s in a leather costume. That’s not what the comic is.’ You want to say, ‘Look, I love you guys, but you don’t understand. There was no costume! I fought just to get a costume and just to have the horns and the double d. That was months of fighting.’ Again though, no one is the bad guy here. They gave me a big shot and they were very supportive in the end, but these movies are difficult. They’re very hard."

"Daredevil…gets his ass kicked a lot in the movie. I think that’s cool! You know what I mean? Because anybody that gets hit fifty times in a Hong Kong movie and they’re fine, there’s always this like BOP-BOP-BOP-BOP-BOP and then there’s that one BOP and a guy goes flying and it’s like, what was so special about that one and why didn’t you do that sooner, dude? What have you been doing this for?"

"I wanted to show like, instead of ‘golly gee, how great to be a superhero,’ I wanted to show the dark side of being a superhero. That was really appealing to me to show something different."

"Ben Affleck - Matt Murdock/Daredevil"

"Jennifer Garner - Elektra Natchios"

"Colin Farrell - Bullseye"

"Michael Clarke Duncan - Wilson Fisk/the Kingpin"

"Jon Favreau - Franklin Nelson"

"Joe Pantoliano - Ben Urich"

"David Keith - Jack Murdock"

"Derrick O'Connor - Father Everett"

"Leland Orser - Wesley Welch"

"Lennie Loftin - Detective Nick Manolis"

"Erick Avari - Nikolas Natchios"

"Paul Ben-Victor - Jose Quesada"

"Scott Terra - Young Matt"

"Mark Margolis - Fallon"