Directed by John Carpenter

"I dunno what the hell's in there, but it's weird and pissed off, whatever it is."

Written by John W. Campbell Jr. and Bill Lancaster
Music by Ennio Morricone
Cinematography by Dean Cundey
Editing by Todd C. Ramsay

"I spent eight years trying to reach him, and then another seven trying to keep him locked up, because I realized that what was living behind that boy's eyes was purely and simply... evil."

Written by John Carpenter and Debra Hill
Music by John Carpenter
Cinematography by Dean Cundey
Editing by Charles Bornstein and Tommy Lee Wallace

"You better watch what you say about my car. She's real sensitive."

Written by Bill Phillips
Music by John Carpenter and Alan Howarth
Cinematography by Donald M. Morgan
Editing by Marion Rothman

"A reality is just what we tell each other it is."

Written by Michael De Luca
Music by John Carpenter and Jim Lang
Cinematography by Gary B. Kibbe
Editing by Edward A. Warschilka

"I'm a reasonable guy. But, I've just experienced some very unreasonable things."

Written by Gary Goldman and David Z. Weinstein
Music by John Carpenter and Alan Howarth
Cinematography by Dean Cundey
Editing by Steve Mirkovich, Mark Warner and Edward A. Warschilka

"I have come here to chew bubblegum and kick ass... and I'm all out of bubblegum."

Written by John Carpenter
Music by John Carpenter and Alan Howarth
Cinematography by Gary B. Kibbe
Editing by Gib Jaffe and Frank E. Jimenez

"It's the survival of the human race, Plissken. Something you don't give a shit about."

Written by John Carpenter and Nick Castle
Music by John Carpenter and Alan Howarth
Cinematography by Dean Cundey
Editing by Todd C. Ramsay

"Love is, um, it's when you care more for someone else than you do yourself."

Written by Bruce A. Evans and Raynold Gideon
Music by Jack Nitzsche
Cinematography by Donald M. Morgan
Editing by Marion Rothman

"Suppose what your faith has said is essentially correct. Suppose there is a universal mind controlling everything, a god willing the behavior of every subatomic particle. Well, every particle has an anti-particle, its mirror image, its negative side. Maybe this universal mind resides in the mirror image instead of in our universe as we wanted to believe. Maybe he's anti-god, bringing darkness instead of light."

Written by John Carpenter
Music by John Carpenter and Alan Howarth
Cinematography by Gary B. Kibbe
Editing by Steve Mirkovich

"There are no heroes anymore, Bishop. Just men who follow orders."

Written by John Carpenter
Music by John Carpenter
Cinematography by Douglas Knapp
Editing by John Carpenter

"Something that one lives with like an albatross round the neck. No, more like a millstone. A plumbing stone, by God! Damn them all!"

Written by John Carpenter and Debra Hill
Music by John Carpenter
Cinematography by Dean Cundey
Editing by Charles Bornstein and Tommy Lee Wallace

"What a beautiful way to die - as a falling star."

Written by John Carpenter and Dan O'Bannon
Music by John Carpenter
Cinematography by Douglas Knapp
Editing by Dan O'Bannon

"Emotion is irrelevant. It is not our nature."

Written by David Himmelstein
Music by John Carpenter and Dave Davies
Cinematography by Gary B. Kibbe
Editing by Edward A. Warschilka

"I shut down the third world, you win they lose. I shut down America, they win, you lose. The more things change, the more they stay the same."

Written by John Carpenter, Debra Hill and Kurt Russell
Music by John Carpenter and Shirley Walker
Cinematography by Gary B. Kibbe
Editing by Edward A. Warschilka

"Let me ask you a question. When you were stabbing that vampire in there? Did you get a little wood?"

Written by Don Jakoby
Music by John Carpenter
Cinematography by Gary B. Kibbe
Editing by Edward A. Warschilka

"Listen, don't let this place get to you. You stay locked up long enough and you start to believe that you're nuts."

Written by Michael Rasmussen and Shawn Rasmussen
Music by Mark Kilian
Cinematography by Yaron Orbach
Editing by Patrick McMahon

"I want my molecules back!"

Written by Robert Collector, Dana Olsen and William Goldman
Music by Shirley Walker
Cinematography by William A. Fraker
Editing by Marion Rothman

"Let me put it this way. Maybe I'd sleep with you if you were the last man on Earth. But we're not on Earth."

Written by John Carpenter and Larry Sulkis
Music by John Carpenter and Anthrax
Cinematography by Gary B. Kibbe
Editing by Paul C. Warschilka