"[Explaining to Sammie] Blues wasn't forced on us like that religion. Nah, son, we brought that with us from home. It's magic what we do. It's sacred... and big."

"Come on in, you motherfuckers!"

"Long ago... the men who stole my father's land forced these words upon us. I hated those men, but the words still bring me comfort. Those men lied to themselves and lied to us. They told stories of a God above and a Devil below. And lies of a dominion of man over beast and Earth. We are earth and beast, and god. We are woman and man. We are connected, you and I, to everything. [Pause] You will taste the sweet pain of death. We will make beautiful music together."

"See, white folks, they like the blues just fine. They just don't like the people who make it."

"Let me in, man! [Bangs on the door] There's some weird shit goin' on out here. [Continues banging] Let me in! You better let me in! Smoke, let me in! Smoke, let me in there! Smoke, you gotta let me in!"

"– Cornbread"

"Oh, we heard tale of a party."

"Dance with the devil."

"This world already left you for dead. Won't let you build. Won't let you fellowship. We will do just that. Together. Forever. I can save you from your fate. I am your way out."

"We are all sinners."

"These ain't haints. They vampires."

"– Jedediah"

"– Pearline"

"Y'all ready to eat? Y'all ready to drink? Y'all ready to sweat till y'all stank?"

"We 'bout to get it poppin' like fish grease, boy!"

"[to Stack] So you rob trains and banks but you can't steal this pussy for a night?"

"The best part of me was him."

"I been all over this world. In cars. Ships. Trains. I seen men die in ways I didn't even know was possible. But I ain't never saw no roots, no demons… no ghosts, no magic. Just power. And only money can get you that."

"[after shooting a looter and seeing the other trying to escape] FUCK you goin', nigga?! Bet this bullet'll beat you there!"

"Ooh, we gonna kill every last one of you."

"Listen here, this ain't no house party."

"I been workin' all week, Pop. Wanna be free of all this fo' a day."

"[to Pearline] You're beautiful... I just wanna taste you."

"[opening narration] There are legends of people... born with the gift of makin' music so true... it can pierce the veil between life and death, conjurin' spirits from the past and the future. In ancient Ireland, they were called Filí. In Choctaw land, they call them Firekeepers. And in West Africa... they're called Griots. This gift can bring healing to their communities... but it also attracts evil."

"Peter Dreimanis – Bert"

"– Grace Chow"

"Helena Hu – Lisa Chow"

"– Delta Slim"

"Stacy Martin - Maggie Van Buren"

"Alessandro Nivola - Attila Miller"

"Emma Laird - Audrey Miller"

"Joe Alwyn - Harry Lee Van Buren"

"Raffey Cassidy - Zsófia"

"Isaach de Bankolé - Gordon"

"Michael Epp - Jim Simpson"

"We tolerate you."

"My uncle is, above all, a principled artist. His lifelong ambition was not only to define an epoch but to transcend all time. In his memoirs, he described his designs as machines with no superfluous parts, that at their best, at his best, possessed an immoveable core; a "Hard Core of Beauty." A way of directing their inhabitant's perception to the world as it is. The inherent laws of concrete things such as mountains and rock define them. They indicate nothing. They tell nothing. They simply are. Born in 1911 in a small fishing village in Austria-Hungary, László Toth looked out upon the Adriatic Sea. He was a boy with eyes wide open, full of yearning. New borders would eventually rip this expanse of sea away from him but never did he cease to try and fill its void. Forty years later, he survived the camps at Buchenwald, as did his late wife, and myself, in Dachau. His first American masterpiece, the Van Buren institute outside of Philadelphia, remained unfinished until 1973. The building referenced his time at Buchenwald as well as the deeply felt absence of his wife, my Aunt Erzsébet. For this project, he re-imagined the camp's claustrophobic interior cells with precisely the same dimensions as his own place of imprisonment, save for one electrifying exception; when visitors looked 20 meters upwards, the dramatic heights of the glass above them invited free thought; freedom of identity. He further re-imagined Buchenwald and his wife's venue of imprisonment in Dachau on the same grounds, connected by a myriad of secret corridors re-writing their history and transcending space and time so that he and Erzsébet would never be apart again. Uncle, you and Aunt Erzsébet once spoke for me, I speak for you now, and I am honored. "Don't let anyone fool you, Zsófia" he would say to me as a struggling young mother raising my daughter during our first years in Jerusalem, "no matter what the others try and sell you, it is the destination, not the journey." Thank you."

"Adrien Brody - László Tóth"

"What have you done to yourself? It's a shame seeing how your people treat themselves. If you resent your persecution, why then do you make of yourself such an easy target? If you act as a loafer living off handouts, a societal leech, how can you rightfully expect a different result?"

"I've found our conversation persuasive and intellectually stimulating."

"When dogs get sick, they often bite the hand of those who fed them, until someone mercifully puts them down."

"This is why I never do business with Italians. The spics of Europe."

"Felicity Jones - Erzsébet Tóth"

"Losing a mother, it's an unfathomable loss. To lose one's birth mother is to lose the very foundation on which we stand. The mind may not know its loss, but the heart does."

"I will follow you until I die."

"This place is rotten. The landscape, the food we eat. This whole country is rotten."

"Jonathan Hyde - Leslie Woodrow"

"Last night I met God. He gave me permission to call Him by His name."

"Guy Pearce - Harrison Lee Van Buren"