My Favorite Films of 1973

"You stupid fuck! You didn't know me? You fired without a warning, without a fucking brain in your head? Oh, shit. If I buy one, motherfucker, I ain't buying it from you."

Directed by Sidney Lumet
Written by Waldo Salt and Norman Wexler
Music by Mikis Theodorakis
Cinematography by Arthur J. Ornitz
Editing by Dede Allen and Richard Marks

"What an excellent day for an exorcism."

Directed by William Friedkin
Written by William Peter Blatty
Music by
Cinematography by Owen Roizman
Editing by Norman Gay and Evan A. Lottman

"Your boss is quite a card player, Mr. Kelly; how does he do it?"
"He cheats."

Directed by George Roy Hill
Written by David S. Ward
Music by
Cinematography by Robert Surtees
Editing by William Reynolds

"Well that's you, Marlowe. You'll never learn, you're a born loser."
"Yeah, I even lost my cat."

Directed by Robert Altman
Written by Leigh Brackett
Music by John Williams
Cinematography by Vilmos Zsigmond
Editing by Lou Lombardo

"At this moment, I didn't feel shame or fear, but just kind of blah, like when you're sitting there and all the water's run out of the bathtub."

Directed by Terrence Malick
Written by Terrence Malick
Music by George Aliceson Tipton
Cinematography by Tak Fujimoto, Stevan Larner and Brian Probyn
Editing by Robert Estrin

"I don't know if we shouldn't mark the grave somehow, Dan?"
"I don't see any need. It ain't likely anybody is gonna cry over them anyhow."

Directed by Clint Eastwood
Written by Ernest Tidyman
Music by Dee Barton
Cinematography by Bruce Surtees
Editing by Ferris Webster

"If this guy gets pussy out of this, I'm gonna eat my fucking flat hat, man."

Directed by Hal Ashby
Written by Robert Towne
Music by Johnny Mandel
Cinematography by Michael Chapman
Editing by Robert C. Jones

"You have offended my family and you have offended the Shaolin Temple."

Directed by Robert Clouse
Written by Michael Allin
Music by Lalo Schifrin
Cinematography by Gil Hubbs
Editing by Kurt Hirschler and George Watters

"You know something? She is really good-lookin'. I gotta say that again. She is really good-lookin'. But she's black. You can see that real plain, right? Look, there isn't much of a difference anyway, is there. Well, is there?"

Directed by Martin Scorsese
Written by Martin Scorsese and Mardik Martin
Music by
Cinematography by Kent L. Wakeford
Editing by Sidney Levin

"A man's GOT to know his limitations."

Directed by Ted Post
Written by John Milius and Michael Cimino
Music by Lalo Schifrin
Cinematography by Frank Stanley
Editing by Ferris Webster