"This is me taking control — from Sloan, from the Fraternity, from Janice, from billing reports, from ergonomic keyboards, from cheating girlfriends and sack-of-shit best-friends. This is me taking back control — of my life. [Breaks the fourth wall, turning to gaze at the audience] What the fuck have you done lately?"

"This is not me following my destiny. This is not me following in my father's footsteps. This is definitely not me saving the world. ... This is not me. This is just a mother-fucking decoy."

"Six weeks ago I was ordinary and pathetic just like you. Who am I now? Account manager? Assassin? Just another tool who was mind-fucked into killing his father? I am all of these. I am none of these. Who am I now?"

"Fate wanted YOU dead. And you couldn't take it."

"Have you ever thought about doing things differently?"

"What did he do to deserve to die? You don't know. I didn't know if he was bad. I didn't know if he was evil. I didn't know anything about him. We get orders from a loom — Fate. And we're supposed to take enough faith in what we're doing is right. Killing someone we know nothing about. I don't know if I can do that."

"I don't know who I am!"

"I don't know why I'm here!"

"SHUT THE FUCK UP!!!"

"Do you make sweaters, or do you kill people?"

"Now I know why I could never care about anything before this. I was living a lie."

"You know when you have a dream and you're half-awake, but still in the fringe of your brain. Then you open your eyes and you're so damned glad it was a dream? [His father's gun falls to the floor] This was NOTHING like that."

"You know there are people, beautiful people, you just wish they could see you in a different setting, a different place. Instead of where you are, what you've become. But most of all, you wish you weren't such a pussy, for wishing for things that'll never change."

"I'm finding it hard to care about anything these days. In fact, the only thing I do care about is the fact that I can't care about anything. Seriously, it worries me."

"If you ever get the chance, shower with them. I did. Mmm, it's a mindscramble. Hurts so good."

"You know, there's going to be sex, drugs, rock-n-roll... chips, dips, chains, whips... You know, your basic high school orgy type of thing. I mean, uh, I'm not talking candlewax on the nipples, or witchcraft or anything like that, no, no, no. Just a couple of hundred kids running around in their underwear, acting like complete animals."

"Michael Berryman - Mutant Biker"

"Vernon Wells - Lord General"

"Robert Rusler - Max"

"Robert Downey Jr. - Ian"

"So...what would you little maniacs like to do first?"

"Judie Aronson - Hilly"

"Suzanne Snyder - Deb"

"Bill Paxton - Chet Donnelly"

"Ilan Mitchell-Smith - Wyatt Donnelly"

"Kelly LeBrock - Lisa"

"Anthony Michael Hall - Gary Wallace"

"If you can't get a date, make one!"

"...it's purely sexual."

"Gary and Wyatt have created the perfect woman. And she'll do anything they say all in the name of science."

"They went from zeroes to heroes in one fantastic weekend."

"Something weird is happening at Wyatt and Gary's."

"It's all in the name of science. Weird Science."

"You two donkey-dicks couldn't get laid in a morgue."

"I'm gonna tell Mom and Dad everything. I'm even considering makin' up some shit!"

"How 'bout a nice greasy pork sandwich served in a dirty ashtray?"

"[to Wyatt's grandparents after they arrive unannounced] You ought to know better than to walk into somebody's house and start hitting people with your Rex Harrison hat!"

"Faran Tahir as Raza"

"Get ready for a different breed of heavy-metal hero."

"Heroes aren't born. They're built."

"Leslie Bibb as Christine Everhart"

"Paul Bettany as J.A.R.V.I.S."

"Gwyneth Paltrow as Pepper Potts"

"Shaun Toub as Ho Yinsen"

"Jeff Bridges as Obadiah Stane"

"Terrence Howard as Lt. Col James "Rhodey" Rhodes"

"Robert Downey Jr. as Tony Stark / Iron Man"

"Me and my effects supervisor John Nelson worked with the Stan Winston studios to build practical suits and we were working with the team from ILM who, a lot of them, had worked on Transformers. We got to benefit from a lot of the technology they broke through for that production which really makes Iron Man photo-real. As you might know, I’m not a fan of CGI per-se so I was very demanding that we make the effects as photo-real as possible. Well that’s what Jurassic Park did and that’s why I think it holds up so well today. There are relatively few [CGI] shots in Jurassic Park; a lot of that stuff is robotics, animatronics. You have to mix practical with computer generated and so there was stuff we did that was seen as wasteful sometimes when we were budgeting. When Iron Man’s flying we’d send real planes up to do the choreography so that we’d get the camerawork to really look like a cameraman was following from another plane. It gives it that Top Gun look. One of the first things I did was I sat down all the people working on the visual effects and we screened scenes from Top Gun and scenes from Stealth and I said, “Why does Top Gun look so much more real?” Stealth had all of this money, technology and state-of-the-art effects and it looks like you’re watching a videogame. We figured out that a lot of it had to do with how restrained the camera was. Don’t give the camera too much freedom or choreography. Get the shading right, the lighting right and there are things you can do to make the CGI look more real. People end up going crazy and give themselves a little too much freedom in how they use CGI and if you overuse it, it draws attention to itself."

""What I usually hate about these [superhero] movies [is] when suddenly the guy that you were digging turns into Dudley Do-Right, and then you're supposed to buy into all his 'Let's go do some good!' That Eliot Ness-in-a-cape-type thing. What was really important to me was to not have him change so much that he's unrecognizable. When someone used to be a schmuck and they're not anymore, hopefully they still have a sense of humor."