Twilight Zone: The Movie quotes
Page 1 of 2Bist Du Engländer? Was machst du hier? ("Are you English? What are you doing here?")
Sie sind Amerikaner? Warum bist du hier? ("You are an American? Why are you here?")
Was machst du hier? Was machst du hier! ("What are you doing here? What are you doing here!")
Ambulance Driver So, you had a pretty big scare up there, huh?
Ambulance Driver You wanna see something really scary?
Co-Pilot Mr. Valentine, what do you think's wrong with this aircraft?
There's an engine out.
Co-Pilot Which one?
The one on the outside. Outboard No. 1. It's out, isn't it?
Co-Pilot What makes you think that?
Never mind about that. It's true, isn't it?
Co-Pilot Nine minutes ago, Outboard No. 1 was struck by lightning, there was a flame out, we lost it.
Lightning?
Co-Pilot Lightning. Mr. Valentine, this aircraft has four engines. The possibility of us losing one, remaining three, is remote in the extremes.
You sure it was just lightning?
Co-Pilot Absolutely. Listen, we're gonna be landing in about twenty minutes. There is the highest probability that we will survive this flight.
Helen Foley Anthony, where are we?
Nowhere.
Helen Foley And the others?
I sent them where they wanted to go. Away from me. It's not fair! You're supposed to be happy when your wishes come true!
Helen Foley Anthony, take us back. Can you take us back?
So you can leave too?
Helen Foley And go where, Anthony? I've seen what you can do. I know you have a power... a gift that makes you special. You better be careful. For one day it may become too big for you to control. Now maybe. Just maybe. Together we can master it and learn from it. Use it in ways you never thought of before. I'd like to be your teacher, Anthony. And your student.
You'd stay with me?
Helen Foley Yes.
Always?
Helen Foley Always.
There's a man on the wing of this plane!
There was somebody out there. You gotta believe me!
I saw him. Green and slimy.
Leave the poor man alone.
I'm only trying to help. You've got to humor them.
It was lightning. At first I thought it was animal. Some kind of bird or something. But it was a man! There were flames coming out of the engine, and a flash of smoke. Maybe it was a technician who was caught on the side of the plane when it took off. How could he survive out there? The air's so thin, the blast of the wind. It's so cold. [begins to think it was only his imagination and feels embarrassed] It's impossible, isn't it? Oh my god, I feel so stupid! [takes sedatives to sleep. Then laughs nervously] Can you imagine? A naked man crawling along the wing of an airplane at 35,000 feet?
Mrs. Dempsey Mrs. Cox would never allow us. It's against the rules.
Rules? Did rules ever stop a child from playing?
Th-th-th-that's all, Ethel!
...Oh, that was good. That was real good.
You're about to meet an angry man. Mr. William Connor, who carries on his shoulder a chip the size of the national debt. This is a sour man, a lonely man, who's tired of waiting for the breaks that come to others, but never to him. Mr. William Connor, whose own blind hatred is about to catapult him into the darkest corner of the Twilight Zone.
It is sometimes said that where there is no hope, there is no life. Case in point: the residents of Sunnyvale Rest Home, where hope is just a memory. But hope just checked into Sunnyvale, disguised as an elderly optimist, who carries his magic in a shiny tin can.
Portrait of a woman in transit. Helen Foley, age 27. Occupation: schoolteacher. Up until now, the pattern of her life has been one of unrelenting sameness, waiting for something different to happen. Helen Foley doesn't know it yet, but her waiting has just ended.
What you're looking at could be the end of a particularly terrifying nightmare. It isn't. It's the beginning. Introducing Mr. John Valentine, air traveler. His destination: the Twilight Zone.
Hey... you wanna see something really scary?
I found out - a long, long time ago - that I wanted to be my own true age...while keeping a young mind.