"Dr. Lewis Jaffe: Can you believe it? Just me and my little knife. Snip, snip, slice, slice...But this is just the beginning...You've seen her with her clothes off. Faces are a doddle compared to tits and ass. No hairlines."

"Jack Lint: This is information retrieval not information dispersal."

"Jack Lint: We've always been close, haven't we? Well, until this whole thing blows over, just stay away from me."

"Kurtzmann: It's been confusion from the word go! He's been overcharged for Information Retrieval Procedures and someone somewhere is trying to make us carry the can."

"Mr. Warrenn: And what the hell is this mess. An empty desk is an efficient desk...I don't know what's going on here, Lowry, but don't think you can intimidate us with your friends and relatives in high places. NOW SHAPE UP!"

"Mr. Warrenn: Ahhhh! Here we are. Your very own number, on your very own door. And behind that door, your very own office! Congratulations, DZ-stroke-oh-one-five. Welcome to the team!"

"Guard: Don't fight it, son. Confess quickly! If you hold out too long you could jeopardize your credit rating."

"Charlie, Department of Works: Bloody typical, they've gone back to metric without telling us."

"Bill, Department of Works: Mistakes? We don't make mistakes."

"Listen, kid, we're all in it together."

"Listen, this whole system of yours could be on fire and I couldn't even turn on the kitchen tap without filling out a twenty-seven B stroke six... bloody paperwork."

"Well, that's a pipe of a different color."

"[to Jill] You won't believe this, I know it's going to sound incredible, but I've been dreaming about you. No, not like that. I mean, I love you - in my dreams - I love you. And, uh...Extraordinary, isn't it?"

"I do assure you, Mrs. Buttle, the Ministry is very scrupulous about following up and eradicating any error. If you have any complaints which you'd like to make, I'd be more than happy to send you the appropriate forms."

"'Ere I am, J.H. ...The ghost in the machine."

"All I can say is don't fall at the last fence. The finishing post's in sight. See you in the paddock... keep your eye on the ball."

"Jill? Yes... Sam I think I ought to tell you. I'm afraid she's upped stumps and retired to the pavilion. Thrown in the towel."

"Yes... No... I don't know. I don't know what I want."

"Sorry, I'm a bit of a stickler for paperwork. Where would we be if we didn't follow the correct procedures?"

"Have you got a 27B stroke 6?"

"Yes, I always used to wonder if she wore falsies. False ears..."

"Mr. Helpmann, I'm keen to get into Information Retrieval. Mr. Helpmann, I'm dying to get at this woman... no, no, no."

"Have you ever killed your best friend?"

"Beat Takeshi — Teacher Kitano"

"Kou Shibasaki — Mitsuko Souma (Girl #11)"

"Chiaki Kuriyama — Takako Chigusa (Girl #13)"

"Taro Yamamoto — Shogo Kawada (Boy #5)"

"Aki Maeda — Noriko Nakagawa (Girl #15)"

"Tatsuya Fujiwara — Shuya Nanahara (Boy #15)"

"Hendrix says one of the most important things Battle Royale and The Hunger Games share is the idea of teenagers trapped in a ruined society, coerced by grownups into doing horrible things. Even so, they both make it clear — there's nothing more utopian than a teenager. Even in a dystopia."

"Hunger Games author Suzanne Collins came from a military family. But Battle Royale director Kinji Fukasaku actually survived World War II. He was just a teenager himself when he was put to work in a munitions factory in Japan. "It was bombed, a lot," Hendrix says. "And one of his jobs, at the age of 15, was to take a wheelbarrow around the factory and pick up body parts after bombing raids." The experience left Fukasaku with a lasting abhorrence of war — and a profound sense of betrayal by grownups that persisted into his own adulthood. And it fueled his decision to film Battle Royale, which was both highly controversial and a massive theatrical hit when it was released in Japan, despite a rating that kept young teenagers from seeing it. That irritated the director, says Hendrix. "He gave a very famous statement to the press where he said, 'Kids, if you have the courage, you can sneak in. And I encourage you to do so.'""

"Today, I killed my best friend."

"42 Students, Three Days, One Survivor, No Rules."

"One Dead. 41 To Go."

"Could you kill your best friend?"

"Each weapon is different. Not just guns or knives either! It is random so maybe you will get lucky, maybe not. It eliminates natural advantages. [picks up axe] Oooh. This one is SUPER lucky."

"So today's lesson is...you kill each other off until there's only one left. Nothing's against the rules!"

"There's a way out of this game. Kill yourselves together, here, now. If you can't do that, then don't trust anyone... just run."

"What's wrong with killing? Everybody's got their reasons."

"[to Noriko Nakagawa] I'm weak, I'm useless, but I'll stay by your side; I'll protect you."

"Ewan McGregor — Obi-Wan Kenobi"

"Ian McDiarmid — Supreme Chancellor Palpatine/Darth Sidious"