"[As a prepubescent boy to Daniel, in hospital with bandage on face] I mean all that stuff you see in the movies about people gettin' cut and gettin' stabbed, you wouldn't think it hurts as much, but it does. You know I gotta get an eye patch? Yeah, I'm gonna be like Snake Plissken. What's he say? "I don't give a fudge about your war or your president". Escape from New York. [Shakes Daniel's head] Daniel. [Jiggling Daniel's chin] Come on, Daniel. Any sound in there? Danetchka, Daniel."

"[Told by Anielka that not everyone can get a bank loan] All right, I know. I know. Pillar of the community and all that. I get it."

"In the early 80's nearly 100,000 Russian Jews immigrated to the United States, escaping oppression in the USSR... Vlad Reznik and Pavel Soloyov left with their families in the hopes of experiencing the American dream."

"[To Daniel over being escorted] I'm black belt and Kung fu, Jujutsu and the art of seduction. All Russian women are."

"In a hundred years, when you and I are both long gone, any time someone threads a frame of yours through a sprocket, you will be alive again. You see what that means? One day, every person on every film shot this year will be dead. And one day, all those films will be pulled from the vaults, and all their ghosts will dine together, and adventure together, go to the jungle, to war together. A child born in 50 years will stumble across your image flickering on a screen and feel he knows you, like... like a friend, though you breathed your last before he breathed his first. You've been given a gift. Be grateful. Your time today is through, but you'll spend eternity with angels and ghosts."

"Marbled meadows metamorphose into the medieval plains of Iberia. Soldiers swarm the fields like flecks of paint from a madman's brush as your humble servant bears witness to the latest of the moving picture's magic tricks. - - Oh, why do I bother? Look at these idiots! I knew Proust, you know."

"And this boy, who breathed his first decades after you breathed your last, will look at your image and think he's found a friend."

"When in doubt, say something in French."

"There is no why. It wasn't your voice. It wasn't a conspiracy. And it certainly wasn't anything I wrote. There's nothing you could have done differently. There's nothing you can do. Your time has run out. There is no why. Stop questioning it."

"Hansford Prince - Joe Holiday"

"Telvin Griffin - Reggie"

"Jovan Adepo - Sidney Palmer"

"Cutty Cuthbert - Jimmy"

"Troy Metcalf - Orville Pickwick"

"Tobey Maguire - James McKay"

"Jimmy Ortega - Elephant Wrangler"

"Jean Smart - Elinor St. John"

"Flea - Bob Levine"

"Brad Pitt - Jack Conrad"

"Margot Robbie - Nellie LaRoy"

"Olivia Wilde - Ina Conrad"

"Diego Calva - Manny Torres"

"Dabadabadabadabadab said the Monkey to the Chimp!"

"It was brillig, and the slithy toves..."

"[After Jane Thornton overdoses on cocaine] Wake up! Wake up! Wake up!"

"Never talk to Elinor! Pretend you can't speak English!"

"Nellie dresses low 'cause Nellie is low. Now, let me tell you about the time I fought a rattlesnake."

"So, we're talking an elephant, plus Garbo, plus others tonight at Don Wallach's house, is that right?"

"Shane Powers - Dale"

"We'll serve sandwiches in the shape of her face!"

"[Stuck in the catacombs] It's getting really late."

"Sir, George won't come out of the car. He's insisting I drive him off the nearest cliff."

"There's a new sensibility now. People care about morals."

"Oh God, please forgive us! You sent us this beautiful light and we're squandering it!"

"Today's white audiences want Negroes in their pictures. Negro music, Negro voices."

"[On the phone, after seeing "The Jazz Singer"] Jack? It's Manny. Everything's about to change."

"This is when you kiss the apparition."

"[To Nellie] I've always helped you. And all you've done is break my heart!"

"This is not a low art!"

"My last idea is the best."

"Did you know Michelangelo painted the entire Sistine Chapel on his back?"

"Who sneezed?! Who the fuck sneezed?! [Walks up to crew man] Kike-nosed, hymie-hole piece of mongoloid shit! I see you! Oh, I see you right there you little shylock dickface! Wipe your nose again! Wipe your little hook nose again, you menorah motherfucker! [Walks back to stage] Now, does anybody else here need to sneeze?! Huh?! Does anyone here need to fuck this scene in the ass?! Camera! And sound!"

"Morphine, opium, ether, heroin, coke. And Louis XIV sat on that."

"First you have to assume the pose of the mongoose!"

"Phoebe Tonkin - Jane Thornton"

"Hola, Carmelita! [Turns to his fiancée Estelle] I have no idea who that was."

"[Over the phone to Manny] Don't say a word. I'm happy for you. You deserve this. Now go and show those fat fucks how it's done!"

"I'm not asking you to fuck him, just make him feel special."

"You know what we gotta do? We gotta redefine the form. The man who puts gasoline in your tank goes to the movies why? Why? Why? Because he feels less alone there. Don't we owe him more than the same old shit? You got the guys in Europe with the twelve-tone. You got Bauhaus architecture. Fucking Bauhaus, you know? And we're still doing costume pictures? It's the dinosaurs, kid. It's the ones who go to Beverly Hills for meatballs and mint juleps to reminisce about the old days, when they can't see there's so much more to be done! We've got to innovate. We've got to inspire. We got to dream beyond these pesky shells of flesh and bone. Map those dreams onto celluloid and print them into history. Turn today into tomorrow so that tomorrow's lonely man may look up at that flickering screen and say for the very first time, "Eureka! I am not alone!" Yeah."

"I had a good run, didn't I?"