The Warriors (film)

"It's still on and we're goin'. Cyrus sent an emissary this afternoon to make sure. Now, Cyrus don't want anybody packed and he don't want anybody flexing any muscle. So, I gave him my word that the Warriors would uphold the truce. [pause] Now everybody says that Cyrus is the one and only. I think we better go have a look for ourself."

"[banging bottles together] Warriors, come out to play-i-ay!"

"[Swan demands a one-on-one fight and he pulls out a gun] One on one? You're crazy. You're dead, all of you, and you know it. You're dead."

"Masai: [addressing the Gramercy Riffs] Who are the Warriors? [no reply] There must be some word! [no reply] I want them all! I want ALL the Warriors! I want them alive, if possible. If not, wasted! But I want them. Send the word!"

"Mercy: Yeah, that's right, Warriors. Just keep walkin'. Real tough muthas, ain't ya? You guys don't show me much. Why don't you dickheads just walk all the way back home, huh?"

"D.J.: [last lines] Good news, Boppers: The big alert has been called off. It turns out that the early reports were wrong, all wrong. Now for that group out there that had such a hard time getting home, sorry about that. I guess the only thing we can do is play you a song. [the Warriors theme song, "In the City" plays]"

"What made it a success with young people... is that for the first time somebody made a film within Hollywood, big distribution, that took the gang situation and did not present it as a social problem. Presented them as a neutral or positive aspect of their lives. As soon as you said in the old days gang movies it was how do we cure the pestilence and how do we fix the social waste. We want to take these kids, make sure they go to college... This was just a movie that conceptually was different. Accepted the idea of the gang, didn't question it, that was their lives, they functioned within that context. And the social problem wasn't were they going to college, but were they going to survive. It's the great Hawksian dictum, where is the drama? Will he live or die? That's the drama."

"Hollywood forgives a lot when you have a hit. I don't know what to say about it, other than the fact that it was just a gift in terms of getting it. The studio hated it, and didn't even want to release it. There was a lot of friction with management at the time. Some of it might have been my fault."

"These are the Armies of The Night. They are 60,000 strong. They outnumber the cops three to one. They could run New York City. Tonight they're all out to get the Warriors."

"They outnumber the cops three to one."

"They are 60,000 strong."

"They could run New York City."

"Tonight they're all out to get the Warriors."

"Michael Beck - Swan"

"James Remar - Ajax"

"Dorsey Wright - Cleon"

"Brian Tyler - Snow"

"David Harris - Cochise"

"Tom McKitterick - Cowboy"

"Thomas G. Waites - Fox"

"Terry Michos - Vermin"

"Marcelino Sánchez - Rembrandt"

"Deborah Van Valkenburgh - Mercy"

"Roger Hill - Cyrus"

"David Patrick Kelly - Luther"

"Lynne Thigpen - D.J."

"Ginny Ortiz - Candy Store Girl"

"Mercedes Ruehl - Policewoman"

"John Snyder - Gas Station Man"

"Edward Sewer - Masai"

"Paul Greco - Sully, the Orphans leader"