Shasta Fay Hepworth: It isn't what you're thinking, Doc. Doc Sportello: Don't worry. Thinking comes later. What else?
— Paul Thomas Anderson, Shasta Fay Hepworth, Katherine Waterston, Inherent Vice
Shasta Fay Hepworth: It isn't what you're thinking, Doc. Doc Sportello: Don't worry. Thinking comes later. What else?
— Paul Thomas Anderson, Shasta Fay Hepworth, Katherine Waterston, Inherent Vice
[referring to the police station] On principle he tried to spend as little time around the glass house as possible. All this strange alternative cop history and cop politics, cop dynasties, cop heroes and evil doers, saintly cops and psycho cops, cops too stupid to live and cops too smart for their…
— Paul Thomas Anderson, Sortilège, Joanna Newsom, Inherent Vice
[to Doc and Sauncho] And to drink, gentlemen? You're going to want to get good and fucked-up before this meal!
[opening lines] She came along the alley and up the back steps the way she always used to. Doc hadn't seen her for over a year. Nobody had. Back then it was always sandals, bottom half of a flower-print bikini, faded Country Joe & the Fish T-shirt. Tonight she was all in flatland gear, hair a lot sh…
— Paul Thomas Anderson, Sortilège, Joanna Newsom, Inherent Vice
Back when they were together she could go weeks without anything more complicated than a pout. Now she was laying some heavy combination of face ingredients on Doc that he couldn't read at all.
— Paul Thomas Anderson, Sortilège, Joanna Newsom, Inherent Vice
[Narrating] Doc ran through all the things he hadn't asked Shasta. Like how much she'd come to depend on Wolfmann's guaranteed level of ease and power? And least askable of all, how passionately did she really feel about old Mickey? Doc knew the likely reply, 'I love him', what else? With the unspok…
— Paul Thomas Anderson, Sortilège, Joanna Newsom, Inherent Vice
[narrating] Well Mornin' Sam, like a bad luck planet in today's horoscope, here's the old hippie-hating mad dog himself in the flesh: Lieutenant Detective Christian F. 'Bigfoot' Bjornsen. SAG member, John Wayne walk, flat top of Flintstone proportions and that evil, little shit-twinkle in his eye th…
— Paul Thomas Anderson, Sortilège, Joanna Newsom, Inherent Vice
[narrating] Inherent vice in a maritime insurance policy is anything that you can't avoid. Eggs break, chocolate melts, glass shatters, and Doc wondered what that meant when it applied to ex-old ladies.
— Paul Thomas Anderson, Sortilège, Joanna Newsom, Inherent Vice
This could be our last night on Earth. You don't want to die a virgin, do you?
— Dean Devlin, Roland Emmerich, Philip, Devon Gummersall, Independence Day
All you need is love. John Lennon. Smart man. Shot in the back, very sad.
— Dean Devlin, Roland Emmerich, Julius Levinson, Judd Hirsch, Independence Day
Let's kick the tires and light the fires, big daddy!
— Dean Devlin, Roland Emmerich, Captain Jimmy Wilder, Harry Connick Jr., Independence Day
President Thomas Whitmore: What do you want us to do? Captured Alien: Die. Die.
— Dean Devlin, Roland Emmerich, President Thomas J. Whitmore, Bill Pullman, Independence Day
[holding cigar] It's funny, I always thought these things were gonna kill me.
— Dean Devlin, Roland Emmerich, David Levinson, Jeff Goldblum, Independence Day
I picked a hell of a day to quit drinkin'.
— Dean Devlin, Roland Emmerich, Russell Casse, Randy Quaid, Independence Day
Everyone's trying to get out of Washington, and we're the only schmucks trying to get in.
— Dean Devlin, Roland Emmerich, Julius Levinson, Judd Hirsch, Independence Day
If you're so smart, tell me something, how come you go to M.I.T. for 8 years to become a cable repairman?
— Dean Devlin, Roland Emmerich, Julius Levinson, Judd Hirsch, Independence Day
David Levinson: They're bringing us in. Captain Steven Hiller: When the hell was you gonna tell me? David Levinson: Oops. Captain Steven Hiller: We're gonna have to work on our communication.
— Dean Devlin, Roland Emmerich, David Levinson, Jeff Goldblum, Independence Day
Captain Steven Hiller: I ain't heard no fat lady! David Levinson: Forget the fat lady. You're obsessed with fat lady. Just get us out of here!
— Dean Devlin, Roland Emmerich, David Levinson, Jeff Goldblum, Independence Day
The only mistake I ever made was to appoint a sniveling little weasel like you Secretary of Defense. However, that is a mistake, I am happy to say, that I don't have to live with. Mr. Nimzicki... you're fired.
— Dean Devlin, Roland Emmerich, President Thomas J. Whitmore, Bill Pullman, Independence Day
Julius Levinson: You punched the President? David Levinson: He wasn't the President yet!
— Dean Devlin, Roland Emmerich, David Levinson, Jeff Goldblum, Independence Day