Strange Days (film)

"Look... everyone needs to take a walk to the dark end of the street sometimes. It's what we are."

"Bullet-resistant? What ever happened to bullet-proof?"

"The issue's not whether you're paranoid, Lenny. I mean, look at this shit. The issue is whether you're paranoid enough."

"You know how I know it’s the end of the world? Everything's already been done. Every kind of music’s been tried. Every kind of government’s been tried, every fucking hairstyle, bubble gum flavors, you know, breakfast cereal. What are we going to do? How are we going to make another thousand years? I’m telling you, man, it’s over. We used it all up."

"Memories are supposed to fade, Lenny. They're designed like that for a reason."

"This is your life — right here, right now! It's real-time. You hear me? Real time! Time to get real, not playback. You understand me?"

"You know one of the ways that movies are still better than playback? 'cause the music comes up, there's credits, and you always know when it's over. [Turns to Lenny] It's over!"

"(rap lyrics) ... and you watch us take it all and then you'll understand our pain! We'll make you the rat that crawled through the cracks. You love that red, white and blue but you hate that black-black-black. And you try to make me think I did this to myself, when the drugs I smoke and the guns I tote both came from your shelf! … But I never had a dream, cuz. My life is a nightmare. America's been my bogey-man for four hundred years!"

"The mayor and the city council sit up in their offices with their social programs that don't work. These people are rearranging deck chairs on the Titanic, but the new day is coming. 2K is coming! The day of reckoning is upon us. History ends and begins again — Right here! Right now!"

"(to the cops) You know what? You pulled over the wrong black male tonight officer — what is it? Steckler — Officer Steckler, because I'm that 800-pound gorilla in your midst, fucker! I make more money in a day than you make in a whole year! And my lawyer loves spending my money dragging sorry-ass Aryan Robocop fuckers like you to court! Get a man down on the ground with no probable cause? Man, fuck you!"

"new year's eve 1999. anything is possible. nothing is forbidden."

"An extreme taste of reality."

"you know you want it"

"Ralph Fiennes as Lenny Nero"

"Angela Bassett as Lornette 'Mace' Mason"

"Juliette Lewis as Faith Justin"

"Tom Sizemore as Max Peltier"

"Michael Wincott as Philo Gant"

"Vincent D'Onofrio as Burton Steckler"

"Glenn Plummer as Jeriko One"

"Brigitte Bako as Iris"