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Cube (1997)

Quotes

Cube

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  • Rennes: No more talking. No more guessing. Don't even think about nothing that's not right in front of you. That's the real challenge. You've gotta save yourselves from yourselves.
  • Leaven: [Leaven, Kazan & Worth reaching the exit of the cube] What are you doing? You can't quit now. It's not your fault!
  • Worth: I have nothing... to live for out there.
  • Leaven: What is out there?
  • Worth: Boundless human stupidity.
  • Leaven: I can live with that.
  • Holloway: It's all the same machine, right? The Pentagon, multinational corporations, the police. If you do one little job, you build a widget in Saskatoon, and the next thing you know, it's two miles under the desert, the essential component of a death machine. I was right! All along, my whole life, I knew it! I told you, Quentin. Nobody's ever going to call me paranoid again! We've gotta get out of here and blow the lid off this thing!
  • Worth: Holloway, you don't get it.
  • Holloway: Then help me, please. I need to know!
  • Worth: This may be hard for you to understand, but there is no conspiracy. Nobody is in charge. It, it's a headless blunder operating under the illusion of a master plan. Can you grasp that? Big Brother is not watching you.
  • Leaven: This room moves to 0, 1, and -1 on the X-axis, 2, 5, and -7 on the Y and 1, -1, and 0 on zed.
  • Quentin: And what does that mean?
  • Leaven: You suck at math.
  • Quentin: Why put people in it?
  • Worth: Because it's here. You have to use it, or you admit it's pointless.
  • Quentin: But it, it *is* pointless.
  • Worth: Quentin... that's my point.
  • Holloway: You've got a gift.
  • Leaven: It's not a gift. It's just a brain.
  • Quentin: Is that your two cents worth, Worth?
  • Worth: For what it's worth.
  • Quentin: For Christ's sake, Worth, what do you live for? Do you have a wife, or a girlfriend, or something?
  • Worth: Nope. I've gotta pretty fine collection of pornography.
  • Worth: This is an accident, a forgotten, perpetual public works project. You think anybody wants to ask questions? All they want is a clear conscience and a fat paycheck.
  • Quentin: Why don't you tell us what your purpose is, Worth?
  • Worth: Often wondered that myself. I'm just a guy, I work in an office building doing office building stuff. I wasn't exactly bursting with joie de vivre before I got here, life just sucks in general.
  • Holloway: Oh I can't stand that attitude.
  • Leaven: 'Cos he's right.
  • Kazan: Astronomical!
  • Holloway: [after Rennes is killed] I think we *have* to ask the big questions! What does it want? What is it thinking?
  • Worth: "One down, four to go."
  • [Quentin and Holloway are discussing who could have made the cube]
  • Quentin: This place is... remember Scaramanga? The bad guy in "The Man With The Golden Gun?" It's some rich psycho's entertainment
  • Holloway: [laughs] Is that what you think?
  • Quentin: Somebody has to take responsibility around here.
  • Worth: And that somebody has to be you?
  • Quentin: Not all of us have the luxury of playing nihilist.
  • Worth: Not all of us are conceited enough to play hero.
  • Kazan: This room is... green. I wanna go back to the blue room.
  • Leaven: *You* figure it out! You haven't done anything! All you do is freak out, you murderer!
  • Quentin: You're telling me telethon boy is a genius?
  • Worth: Hey! Listen to what I'm saying. We haven't been moving in circles, the rooms have.
  • Holloway: What have we come to? It's so much worse than I thought.
  • Worth: Not really. Just more pathetic.
  • Worth: I don't wanna die, I'm just being realistic. Do you think they'd go to all the trouble to build this thing if we could just walk out?
  • Quentin: Do you think they would have left us clues and let us beat it so far if there wasn't a way out?
  • Worth: You think we matter? We don't.
  • Quentin: Put us out of your misery so we can get on with getting out of here.
  • Worth: Oh, you're not getting out of here.
  • Quentin: Yes, we are!
  • Worth: No, you're not!
  • Quentin: Yes, we are!
  • Worth: There is no way out of here!
  • Holloway: Only the government could build something this ugly.
  • Worth: I'm the poison. I designed the outer shell.
  • Quentin: Start with us. We got an escape artist and a cop. There's gotta be a reason for that. You're a doctor, Holloway. That gives you a function, a reason, right?
  • Holloway: No! It just makes me go, "Why me and not one of the other ten million doctors out there?"
  • Leaven: Give us the boot, you pig!
  • [Quentin turns suddenly and hits Worth with the boot]
  • Quentin: You don't want the boot!
  • [Quentin starts beating Worth savagely with the boot]
  • Leaven: [looking at the "room numbers"] Prime numbers. I can't believe I didn't see it before!
  • Quentin: I'm not dying in a fucking rat maze!
  • Quentin: Who do you think the establishment is? It's just guys like me. Their desks are bigger, but their jobs aren't. They don't conspire, they buy boats.
  • Quentin: Listen, we can't go climbing around in here.
  • Holloway: Why not?
  • Quentin: There's traps.
  • Holloway: What do you mean traps?
  • Quentin: Booby traps. I looked in the room down there, and something almost cut my head off.
  • [They are staring, wide-eyed, at each other as they begin to understand the coding]
  • Leaven: How do you map a point that keeps moving?
  • Worth: [He thinks for a few moments, then:] Permutations.
  • [They stare at each other again, realizing they've made a breakthrough]
  • Leaven: [to Worth and Holloway] Well... Duh! Have you been on glue all your lives? I felt guilty for ruining the world since I was like seven! God, if you need someone to blame throw a rock!
  • Leaven: Is he dead?
  • Worth: Not quite.
  • Quentin: Not even close!
  • Leaven: Give me a minute. Okay. The numbers are markers; points on the map, right?
  • Worth: Right.
  • Leaven: And how do you map a point that keeps moving?
  • Worth: Permutations.
  • Quentin: Permu - what?
  • Leaven: Permutations. A list of all the coordinates that the room passes through. Like, a map that tells you where the room starts, how many times it moves, and where it moves to.
  • Quentin: The number tells you all that?
  • Leaven: I don't know. See, I've been looking at only one point on the map. Which is probably the starting position. All I saw was what the Cube looked like before it started to move.
  • Quentin: Okay, so it's moving. How do we get out?
  • Leaven: 27. - I know where the exit is.
  • Quentin: [standing up] Where?
  • Leaven: [ferociously] Stay away from me.
  • Worth: Back off, Quentin!
  • Quentin: I just want to know. Don't you want to know?
  • Leaven: [to Worth] You remember that room we passed through before? The one with the coordinate larger than 26?
  • Worth: What about it?
  • Leaven: That coordinate placed the room outside the cube.
  • Worth: A bridge!
  • Leaven: Right! But only in its original position.
  • Quentin: What are you talking about?
  • Leaven: Look. The room starts off as a bridge. And then it moves its way through the maze, which is where we ran into it. But, at some point, it must return to its original position.
  • Worth: So the bridge is only a bridge...
  • Leaven: For a short period of time. This thing is like a giant combination lock. When the rooms are in their starting position, the lock is open. But when they move out of alignment, the lock closes!
  • Quentin: You want to come with us, Worth? Down the hatch!
  • [Quentin drops Worth through a door in the floor, and Worth screams as he falls into the room below]
  • Holloway: They may have taken our lives away, but we're still human beings. That's all we've got left.
  • Worth: What do ya think?
  • Leaven: You don't have a lot of lives left.
  • Quentin: [talking to Holloway] You listen to me, woman. Every day I mop up after your bleeding heart. The only reason you even exist is because I keep you!. I know your type. No kids, no man to fuck you. So, you go around outraged, sticking your nose up other people's assholes. Sniffing their business.
  • Worth: We've been going in circles.
  • Quentin: That can't be.
  • Worth: [Quentin hauls Leaven off the ground and over to the window to the outside] Where are we?
  • Leaven: I don't know.
  • Quentin: [roaring like a lion] Where are we?
  • Leaven: *You* figure it out! You haven't done anything! All you do is freak out, you murderer!
  • [Leaven weeps, while Worth is oddly laughing. Quentin drops to the floor]
  • Quentin: I guess you were right, Worth. There is no way out of here.
  • Quentin: [Quentin begins crying, and Kazan pats his head] Get away from me.
  • Worth: [Worth has been thinking, and he gets to his feet] Wasn't Rennes killed in that room?
  • [Worth re-opens the door to the darkness outside and asks:]
  • Worth: How come there's nothing out there?
  • Quentin: It's the edge.
  • Worth: We weren't at the edge before. Where's the room that killed Rennes?
  • Quentin: [flings a boot out into the darkness] Fuck off!
  • Worth: Oh, that was good.
  • Quentin: What difference does it make? We're dead anyways.
  • Worth: Hey, listen to what I'm saying! There was a room there before. We haven't been moving in circles; the rooms have!
  • Leaven: Of course.
  • Quentin: Rooms...?
  • Leaven: That explains the thunder and the shaking. We've been shifting the whole time.
  • Leaven: It, it's the only logical explanation.
  • [she climbs up to the window into darkness next to Worth]
  • Leaven: I'm such an idiot.
  • Worth: What are you on to, Leaven?
  • Holloway: It's like Chile. They always come in the middle of the night.
  • Quentin: Trust me on this. It's my job to read people like an x-ray.
  • [last lines]
  • Quentin: Red Kazan.
  • Quentin: Leven... it's time to go down.

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