"Nicole: You know how everyone's always saying seize the moment? I don't know, I'm kind of thinking it's the other way around, you know, like the moment seizes us."

"One family's life. Everyone's story."

"Bill Welbrock: You don't like me much, do you Mason? [pause] That's okay, neither do I."

"Patricia Arquette - Olivia Evans"

"Lorelei Linklater - Samantha Evans"

"Charlie Sexton - Jimmy"

"Ellar Coltrane - Mason Evans Jr."

"Tom McTigue - Mr. Turlington"

"Brad Hawkins - Jim"

"12 years in the making."

"I finally figured it out. It's like—when they realized it was gonna be too expensive to actually build cyborgs and robots. I mean, the costs of that were impossible. They decided to just let humans turn themselves into robots. That's what's going on right now. I mean, why not? There're billions of us just laying around, not really doing anything. We don't cost anything. We're even pretty good at self-maintenance and reproducing constantly. And as it turns out, we're already... biologically programmed for our little cyborg upgrades. I read this thing the other day about how... Like, when you hear that ding on your inbox, you get like a dopamine rush in your brain. It's like we're being chemically rewarded for allowing ourselves to be brainwashed. How evil is that? We're fucked."

"Marco Perella - Bill Welbrock"

"Disgruntled Grad Student: Every action is a positive action, even if it has a negative result."

"Old Man Recording Thoughts: When young, we mourn for one woman... as we grow old, for women in general. The tragedy of life is that man is never free yet strives for what he can never be. The thing most feared in secret always happens. My life, my loves, where are they now? But the more the pain grows, the more this instinct for life somehow asserts itself. The necessary beauty in life is in giving yourself to it completely. Only later will it clarify itself and become coherent."

"Anti-Artist: Uh, I don't do much really, I just read, and work here, and, uh, sleep and eat, and, uh, watch movies."

"I've had a total re-calibration of my mind, you know. I mean, it's like, I've been banging my head against this 19th century type, um, what? Thought mode? Construct? Human construct? Well, the wall doesn't exist. It's not there, you know. I mean, they tell you, look for the light at the end of the tunnel. Well, there is no tunnel. There's just no structure. The underlying order is chaos."

"I may live badly, but at least I don't have to work to do it."

"T-Shirt Terrorist: Remember, terrorism is the surgical strike capability of the oppressed. Keep on keepin' on!"

"Charles Gunning - Hitchhiker"

"Terrence Kirk - Officer Love"

"Mark Harris - t-shirt terrorist"

"Bob Boyd - Officer Bozzio"

"To me, my thing is, a video image is much more powerful and useful than an actual event. Like back when I used to go out, when I was last out, I was walking down the street and this guy, that came barreling out of a bar, fell right in front of me, and he had a knife right in his back, landed right on the ground and... Well, I have no reference to it now. I can't put it on pause. I can't put it on slow mo and see all the little details. And the blood, it was all wrong. It didn't look like blood. The hue was off. I couldn't adjust the hue. I was seeing it for real, but it just wasn't right. And I didn't even see the knife impact on the body. I missed that part."

"Rachael Reinhardt - Cousin from Greece"

"Traumatized Yacht Owner: [to Happy Go-Lucky Guy] Quit... quit... you should quit... YOU should quit... you should... you should... You should- You should quit traumatizing women with sexual intercourse... I should know... I'm a medical doctor... I own a mansion and a yacht... You should quit traumatizing women with sexual intercourse... I should know... I'm a medical doctor..."

"Dostoyevsky Wannabe: Who's ever written a great work about the immense effort required in order not to create?"

"Old Anarchist: And remember: the passion for destruction is also a creative passion."

"Louis Black - Paranoid paper reader"

"Lee Daniel - GTO"

"Stella Weir - Stephanie from Dallas"

"Mark James - Hit-and-Run Son"

"Teresa Taylor - Pap smear pusher"

"Rudy Basquez - Taxicab driver"

"Abra Moore - Has Change"

"Frank Orrall - Happy Go-Lucky Guy"

"John Slate - Conspiracy-A-Go-Go author"

"Richard Linklater - Should Have Stayed at the Bus Station"

"Kim Krizan - Questions Happiness"

"Louis Mackey - Old anarchist"

"Scott Rhodes - Disgruntled grad student"

"Every single commodity you produce is a piece of your own death!"

"Walter Lassally - Patrick"

"Ariane Labed - Anna"

"Athina Rachel Tsangari - Ariadni"

"Natalia: Like sunlight, sunset, we appear, we disappear. We are so important to some, but we are just passing through."

"I remember thinking: this is the natural human state - always a little dissatisfied, perpetually discontented, you know?"

"Ethan Hawke - Jesse"