"The way I look at it, I am the alien! I'm the one devoid of human values. Drac has them. Not me. Not Davidge, the spaceman. For me, the film is the discovering of the human side of myself. You know – How to be human!"

"It's the biggest, most satisfying role I've ever had. Davidge is a human being who gets to know a lot of sides to himself. Wolfgang thought he was a bit too Han Solo, at first. Now, Davidge really evolves through everything in the story: humour, anguish, tears, hate, pride, love, pain, action. There's no end to the action! I'm trying to do most of it, myself. So, it's also, physically, a very gruelling experience."

"Bumper Robinson - Zammis"

"Jim Mapp - Old Drac Slave"

"Richard Marcus - Arnold"

"Brion James - Stubbs"

"Before we wrote the screenplay, we tried to get the studios interested in the story. It was turned down everywhere. But again, after the screenplay was done, there was quite a bit of studio interest. We finally went with 20th Century Fox. Then they started having trouble finding a director. Either the ones they wanted weren't available, or wanted to go in such a different direction with the story that they were unacceptable. Finally, Richard Loncrane was hired. The first draft of my screenplay took ten months, which is a very long time. When I started working with Richard, I would fly to London or he would fly here. He had a wonderful, very exciting vision of the film, but at the same time, it might have exceeded what was possible. What you see on the screen today is maybe 75 script pages. The script Loncrane and I started shooting with in Iceland was 140 pages long."

"Henry Stolow - Cates"

"Herb Andress - Hopper"

"Lance Kerwin - Joey Wooster"

"Carolyn McCormick - Morse"

"Scott Kraft - Jonathan"

"Dennis Quaid - Willis "Will" Davidge"

"The space burial sequence now two-thirds of the way into the film was actually menat to be the first scene of the movie. Davidge is found after three years on Fyrine IV, but doesn't initially answer what he did there or how he survived. The story is initially told through flashback because I wanted to set up suspense by slowly uncovering what had happened to him. After the first public testing, Wolfgang decided that it wasn't right. I can see some of it, but I still think that's the best structure for the story. Plus I think they cut more out of the film than they should have. There's some stuff showing his relationship with his three friends aboard the battle station that I wish they would have kept in. I think it created a feeling in the first of the film that carried over to the ending. But I do think that the film has an epic grandeur and enormous emotional intensity to the two characters. That's what I wanted to do most and I think that got to the screen."

"... this is the first science fiction film I know of that's based on character rather than hardware. I read the story on a plane from New York to LA and, at a critical point, I had to throw the script down. I was in tears... it touched me that much. It's such a wonderful story. Here's two guys who are enemies. One happens to be an alien. They could easily be an American and a Russian."

"Louis Gossett Jr. - Jeriba Shigan"

"Lou Michaels - Wilson"

"Andy Geer - Bates"

"The problem ... was that the original novella was not structured for film. It has big gaps in time and essentially starts another story two-thirds of the way through. This is when Davidge takes the young Drac back to Dracon and has to deal with their prejudice against him. We just didn't have the money for that. I had to create a new ending where Zammis is kidnapped by gypsy miners who use Dracs for slave labor. Davidge has to rescue him, and this leads to a new understanding between the two races. There was a good line in the film that got cut out, where Davidge's friends come to help him and run into a party of armed Dracs. The Drac who knows about Davidge and Zammis is about to shoot the friends when one holds his hands up and says "Hold it! I don't understand it completely either, but we're on the same side now!" I also wanted to have a scene at the end where Davidge is shown on Dracon at Zammis' acceptance ceremony. To be officially accepted into Dracon society and become head of your family line, you have to stand before the Council of Elders with your father. He introduces you by reciting your line's entire heritage. That's from the book and I wanted to make that a big scene, but it wound up as a matte painting because that's all there was money for. That's as close to the Drac culture as we could afford to come."

"Paul Walter Hauser — Harvey Elder / Mole Man"

"Natasha Lyonne — Rachel Rozman"

"Ralph Ineson — Galactus"

"Sarah Niles — Lynne Nichols"

"Julia Garner — Shalla-Bal / Silver Surfer"

"Mark Gatiss — Ted Gilbert"

"Vanessa Kirby — Sue Storm / Invisible Woman"

"Ebon Moss-Bachrach — Ben Grimm / The Thing"

"Joseph Quinn — Johnny Storm / Human Torch"

"Sue Storm is Invisible Woman."

"Reed Richards is Mister Fantastic."

"Johnny Storm is Human Torch."

"Prepare 4 launch."

"He possesses the Power Cosmic, and he will inherit this cursed throne."

"Meet the family."

"Ben Grimm is The Thing."

"It's a blessing. It means "Die with yours"."

"Your world will be consumed by the Devourer. There is nothing you can do to stop him. For he is a universal force, as essential as the stars. Hold your loved ones close and speak to words you’ve been afraid. Use this time to rejoice and celebrate for your time is short. I herald his beginning. I herald your end. I herald... Galactus."

"Clever, little bugs."

"Yeah. Best looking, he means."

"Before we went up the first time, you couldn't turn invisible, Ben wasn't a rock, and Johnny never caught fire."

"H.E.R.B.I.E., how's that sauce coming? Yeah, I'll be the judge of that. [tastes the sauce with his pinkie finger] Okay. [claps his hand] Okay! Is this guy good or what? [chuckles] I want to add a couple cloves of garlic, not because it's not delicious. I just want to add a little bit of zip, okay?"

"I was once little like you. Billions of years ago. A man from another world. Before this relentless, eternal hunger."

"Introducing H.E.R.B.I.E."

"This equation not only confirms alternate dimensions, it suggests that parallel Earths exist on different dimensional planes... [sees his students are bored] Who wants to see a big explosion?"

"The best pilot in the world, right here."

"It's my fault. I stretched the bounds of space, and they heard."

"Pedro Pascal — Reed Richards / Mister Fantastic"

"We make a point to do family dinner every week. Sunday at seven on the dot. No matter what, we're all here."

"We will protect you."

"You're gonna be the best mom in the world. And you are gonna be the best dad, just kidding, you are out of your depth. We are gonna be the best uncles ever."