"In the year of our Lord 1314, patriots of Scotland, starving and outnumbered, charged the fields of Bannockburn. They fought like warrior poets. They fought like Scotsmen. And won their freedom."

"I'm so afraid. Give me the strength to die well."

"I am William Wallace! The rest of you will be spared. Go back to England, and tell them there, that Scotland's daughters and her sons are yours no more! Tell them Scotland is free!"

"John Murtagh - Lochlan"

"Alun Armstrong - Mornay"

"John Kavanagh - Craig"

"Stephen Billington - Phillip"

"Sandy Nelson - John Wallace"

"Sean Lawlor - Malcolm Wallace"

"Brian Cox - Argyle Wallace"

"Seán McGinley - MacClannough"

"Ian Bannen - Bruce's father"

"David O'Hara - Stephen of Ireland"

"James Cosmo - Campbell"

"Peter Hanly - Prince Edward"

"Brendan Gleeson - Hamish"

"Catherine McCormack - Murron MacClannough"

"Patrick McGoohan - King Edward "Longshanks""

"Angus Macfadyen - Robert the Bruce"

"Sophie Marceau - Princess Isabella of France"

"Mel Gibson - William Wallace"

"Nations rally not behind titles...but alongside courage."

"To dwell in the shadow of a crown is not to truly live."

"What could drive a man to revolt against a kingdom...and what sort of people would fight beside such a man?"

"Who does history remember? Those who beg for mercy? Or those who bleed for freedom?"

"In a land of timeless beauty, William Wallace was a man of peace. But when a ruthless king threatened his home, and murdered the woman he loved, William Wallace was driven to war...and to win for his people something they never dreamed of having. Their own country. (from theatrical trailer)"

"His passion captivated a queen. His courage inspired a nation. His heart defied an empire."

"What gives men the will to fight hard...the passion to bleed long...the strength to die well?"

"Every man dies. Not every man really lives."

"Your heart is free. Have the courage to follow it."

"After the beheading, William Wallace's body was torn to pieces. His head was set on London Bridge, his arms and legs sent to the four corners of Britain as a warning. It did not have the effect that Longshanks planned. And I, Robert the Bruce, rode out to pay homage to the armies of the English King and accept his endorsement of my crown."

"Many years later, Edward the Longshanks, King of England, supervised the wedding of his eldest son, who would succeed him to the throne. As bride for his son, Longshanks had chosen the daughter of his rival: the King of France. It was widely whispered, that for the princess to conceive, Longshanks would have to do the honors himself. That may have been what he had in mind all along."

"I shall tell you of William Wallace. Historians from England will say I am a liar, but history is written by those who have hanged heroes. The King of Scotland had died without a son and the King of England, a cruel pagan known as Edward the Longshanks, claimed the throne of Scotland for himself. Scotland's nobles fought him, and fought each other, over the crown. So Longshanks invited them to talks of truce — no weapons, one page only. Among the farmers of that shire was Malcolm Wallace, a commoner with his own lands. He had two sons, John and William."

"The trouble with Scotland...is that it's full of Scots!"

"Someday, you will be king, at least try to act like one!"

"Bring me Wallace, alive if possible, dead ... just as good."

"[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] 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 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."

"I was involved on the first film, but I had nothing to do with those piece of shit sequels. I really just divorced myself from those, because it really was never meant to be a franchise and they tried to turn it into this James Bond series. I can understand doing more Crow films if they just used the themes: love and loss, reckoning, retribution and justice. Those are universal themes that can be set in any time or place. BUT trying to keep repeating that first film was just a horrible mistake."

"This is a person who has been pushed right to the limits of his ability to cope what is going on. And in a sense is quite mad sometimes... In a sense completely insane, almost in a sense that you might think of an insane person having voices. More rational voices that try to guide him...More irrational voices that come from a more emotional... More deep-seated place. I think that the crow his that rational voice, the crow is his guide."

"It poses some really interesting questions. If you died, and then somehow a year later you had one day, two days, to come back, what would you do?"

"The Crow doesn't seem like a comic that Hollywood would be keen on turning into a big-budget motion picture. The title character also known as Eric Draven doesn't have much in common with Superman, Captain America or Ant-Man, who wear multi-colored costumes and fight to protect the innocent. Eric is angry, inconsolable and filled with hate. He kills without remorse. He knows he's a monster; he's not particularly concerned with morality. His attitude and lack of a colorful costume make him an unlikely candidate for a line of poseable action figures for kids. And yet somehow this successful underground comic book series got the green light for a movie back in 1994, long before movie executives knew that you could just throw a hunk like Ryan Reynolds in a suit and tickets would sell."