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The Arrival (1996)

Quotes

The Arrival

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  • Zane Ziminski: [1:21:21] What do I want? I want to blow a hole in your head and donate your organs to science, but I've got a few questions first.
  • Char: Why'd they leave?
  • Zane Zaminski: They didn't leave.
  • Char: How do you know?
  • Zane Zaminski: Because we aren't dead yet.
  • Phil Gordian: [1:20:15] Zane, you don't look too good.
  • Zane Ziminski: Actually, I look like a can of smashed assholes. Here's a tip: If you ever get the chance to travel with a Mexican rodeo, pass
  • Phil Gordian: If you can't tend to your own planet, you don't deserve to live here.
  • [right before he kills an alien]
  • Zane Ziminski: Do you want to see the ruins, my friend?
  • Zane Ziminski: She's out of my bed, but still in my head.
  • Calvin: This is like looking for a needle in a haystack full of needles.
  • Ilana Green: I get so damned apocalyptic when I drink.
  • Zane Ziminski: I come to you with what may be the preeminent discovery of the 20th century, the possibility of extra-solar life, and I get shit-canned for it?
  • Phil Gordian: Cause right now you are just one little guy with a big conspiracy theory, and no proof, and the world is full of them.
  • Phil Gordian: So, Zane, you take great care in what you choose to learn.
  • Char: Well Zane, why do we always have to anlayze everthing?
  • Char: Can't you just trust that I love you?
  • Zane Zaminski: Algorithms I trust.
  • Zane Zaminski: Boolean logic I trust.
  • Zane Zaminski: Beautiful women, they just... mystify me.
  • Zane Ziminski: What's your point? There's always something that gives me false hope? That I'm wasting my life?
  • Char: I didn't say that. But you know, it's interesting that you did.
  • Cabbie: [looking towards old, scruffy building] Posada San Marsol. One of our much very best hotels!
  • Zane Ziminski: What is this, Tales from the Darkside?
  • Phil Gordian: If you can't tend to your own planet, none of you deserve to live here.
  • Phil Gordian: Searching for ETs in this political environment is a tough sell.
  • Ilana Green: You know, I must say, Zane, I really enjoyed our talk tonight. It's uncommon for me to find someone who can actually grasp the things that I'm passionate about.
  • Zane Ziminski: Yeah, I hear ya.
  • [first lines]
  • Ilana Green: [standing in a field, takes a picture] Shouldn't be here.
  • [zoom out goes all the way to space]

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