8mm (film)

"That's it. She's dead. She's been dead a long fucking time and nobody gives a shit but you."

"You're not gonna kill me. You don't have it in you."

"[holding a picture of Welles' wife and daughter] What I could do with faces like these on film. On second thought, why would I need their faces?"

"If there was no honor among perverts and pornographers, the whole fucking business would fall apart."

"[dying from a gunshot wound to the neck] This is wrong, something's wrong. Oh, God, not like this. I'm supposed to have something more cinematic. Kill them, Machine... kill them all. [dies]"

"[after removing his mask for the first time] What'd you expect? A monster?"

"You know the best part of killing someone? The look on their face. It's that look. Not when they're threatened. Not when you hurt them. Not even when they see the knife. It's when they feel the knife go in. That's it. It's surprise. They just can't believe it's really happening to them. She had that look, the girl, when she knew it wasn't just porno."

"I wasn't beaten. I wasn't molested. Mommy didn't abuse me. Daddy never raped me. I'm only what I am. And that's all there is to it! There's no mystery. Things I do, I do them because I like them! Because I want to!"

"[watching a video of Machine torturing a woman] Oh, he's a lover, man... definitely loves what he does for a living."

"I can hook you up, though. You name the vice I name the price."

"[On selling porn] I don't buy it. I don't endorse it. I just point the way."

"He's a producer-slash-director-slash weirdo. He's like the Jim Jarmusch of S & M."

"So you got a wife and a daughter and a nice little yellow house and a dog named 'Shep'. What the hell are you doing here?"

"There's things that you're gonna see that, that you can't unsee. They get in your head and they stay there."

"Hey! It's like a gas station, you pay before you pump!"

"Dance with the devil, the devil don’t change. The devil changes you."

"If someone never saw or sold a snuff film, they shouldn't give a damn what I ask about it, if they have they got a right to be nervous."

"I'll never get tired of hurting you, Eddie!"

"Can you tell me if you had to make a choice... if you were forced to choose... between imagining her out there somewhere living a good life... being happy... but you don't know... you never find out... or the worst being true... her being gone... but you know... you finally know what's happened to her."

"Hello, Machine! Love your work!"

"Why do you think people like the Christians hire people like me? To invite us to their dinner parties? It's our job to clean up the mess. To wipe their royal asses."

"You know the only difference between you and me? I will survive this and profit by it, whereas you, you will not."

"You can't prepare for where the truth will take you."

"You are never prepared for the truth."

"Be careful when you kill a monster, that you don't become one yourself."

"Some doors should never be opened."

"Nicolas Cage - Tom Welles"

"Joaquin Phoenix - Max California"

"James Gandolfini - Eddie Poole"

"Peter Stormare - Dino Velvet"

"Anthony Heald - Daniel Longdale"

"Chris Bauer - George Higgins/Machine"

"Catherine Keener - Amy Welles"