"[sobbing while facing her camera up close] I just want to apologize to Mike's mom, and Josh's mom, and my mom. I'm sorry to everyone. I was very naive. I am so, so sorry for everything that has happened. Because in spite of what Mike says now, it is my fault. Because it was my project and I insisted. I insisted on everything. I insisted we weren't lost. I insisted we keep going. I insisted that we walk south. Everything had to be my way and this is where we've ended up. And it's all because of me that we're here now: hungry and cold and hunted. I love you mom and dad. I am so sorry. [hears an ominous noise] What is that? [hyperventilates] I'm scared to close my eyes...and I'm scared to open them. We're going to die out here."

"Scary as hell."

"The scariest movie of all time is a true story."

"Scarier than The Exorcist!"

"In October 1994 three student filmmakers disappeared in the woods near Burkittsville, Maryland, while shooting a documentary...A year later their footage was found."

"Everything you've heard is true."

"Joshua Leonard - Himself"

"Michael C. Williams - Himself"

"Heather Donahue - Herself"

"[screaming, as she catches a glimpse of the Blair Witch] OH, MY GOD! WHAT THE FUCK IS THAT?!?! WHAT THE FUCK IS THAT?!?!"

"[looking through Heather's camera] It's not the same on film is it? I mean, you know it's real, but it's like looking through the lens gives you some sort of protection from what's on the other side."

"I hate crossing streams on logs. If I never cross another stream on a log for the rest of my life, I will die a happy girl!"

"[After Heather and Josh hit Michael in rage for throwing away the map] The map wasn't doing shit all day! THAT MAP WAS USELESS! THAT MAP WAS USELESS!"

"I could help you, but I'd rather stand here and record."

"Getting out of that category of friend is harder than getting out of Alcatraz. - Dex"

"Both men and women want to have sex. It's natural, except we're on different timetables. Women want to have sex, like, y'know, fifteen minutes after us, so alright, if you hold out for twenty she'll be chasing you for five. - Dex"

"And that takes us to Part III of the Tao of Steve, okay? Alright, after you've eliminated your desire, and after you've been excellent in her presence, then you must retreat. Okay? - Dex"

"Doing stuff is overrated. Like Hitler. He did a lot. But don't we all wish he woulda just stayed home and gotten stoned? - Dex // Oh, I see. So you're only options are to get stoned or commit genocide? - Syd"

"I'm not looking for enlightenment, Dex. I'm looking for a girlfriend—that’s it. - Dave // It's all connected. - Dex"

"Don't pretend. Just really let go of your desire. - Dex"

"Look chicks are like hunters, man. They want to bag a lion or a bear, something really hard to catch. And along comes Dave, you know, and you're like this affectionate little puppy. You're cute, but you're way too easy to catch and that bores them and with chicks, boredom equals death, man. You can't bore them. - Dex"

"Have you ever noticed how at the beginning of a relationship, right, a guy will do just about anything with his girlfriend because just the thought of seeing her naked gets him excited about going to the opera. - Dex"

"Don Giovanni slept with thousands of women because he was afraid he wouldn't be loved by one. - Syd"

"You have to do something excellent in her presence thus demonstrating your sexual worthiness. - Dex"

"Act like a woman can't join your club and she'll do almost anything to get in. - Friend of Dex's"

". . . when I'm hanging out with a woman, that's all I'm doing is hanging out—talking, listening. I'm not sitting there thinking about how to get in bed with her and this completely confuses them, because they're saying, "Wait a minute. I'm so much better looking than this guy. Isn't he attracted to me?" The basic principle: We pursue that which retreats from us. - Dex"

"If you're out with this girl and you're even thinking about getting laid, you're finished. Because women can smell an agenda like shit on a shoe. - Dex"

"You must learn to eliminate your desire. - Dex"

"After a treacherous journey we finally arrived in Sudan, on top of the Nuba Mountains, and with it came a shocking 130° degree heat — and right from the start, we could tell, this was not the adventure we had expected. There wasn't much to do."

"None of us knew what we were doing. We'd never made a documentary before. We just opened our lens wide, and tried to capture any stories along our way to Sudan."

"They are seeking out children, who are going to be the most moldable, and the most easy to — brainwash, essentially — into being a soldier, and in that regard the child of 8 to 14 years is the perfect candidate."

"Nobody joins that fighting force voluntarily, they conscript people into the rebel ranks."

"There's a lot of social evils going on in this part of the world, and they need attention. ... The message from the children is very clear. The children from northern Uganda, they're asking for one thing, survival — peace. They're asking for peace."

"We are naïve kids, who haven't travelled a lot, and we're going to Sudan."

"Media shapes the way we view our life. What you see in the magazines, what you see on the TV screen, what you see in the movie theatre is what you know about life. So in a sense media is life."

"Keep America Beautiful"

"I'm the "Joe" everybody's talking about."

"What are you gonna do, kill me too?"

"It's colder than a witch's tit."

"The niggers, the niggers are gettin' all the money. Why work, tell me, why the fuck work, when you can screw, have babies, an' get paid for it?"

"Forty-two percent of all liberals are queer, that's a fact. The Wallace people did a poll."

"[at the urinal] Hey, they got ice down there! I never pissed on ice before."

"Marlene Warfield - Bellevue Nurse"

"K Callan - Mary Lou Curran"

"Peter Boyle - Joe Curran"

"Susan Sarandon - Melissa Compton"

"Audrey Caire - Joan Compton"

"Dennis Patrick - Bill Compton"