My Favorite Films of 1989

"Today's temperature's gonna rise up over 100 degrees, so there's a Jheri curl alert! That's right, Jheri curl alert. If you have a Jheri curl, stay in the house or you'll end up with a permanent black helmet on your head fuh-eva!"

Directed by Spike Lee
Written by Spike Lee
Music by Bill Lee
Cinematography by Ernest R. Dickerson
Editing by Barry Alexander Brown

"If you were happy every day of your life you wouldn't be a human being. You'd be a game-show host."

Directed by Michael Lehmann
Written by Daniel Waters
Music by David Newman
Cinematography by Francis Kenny
Editing by Norman Hollyn

"We each need to find our own inspiration, Kiki. Sometimes it's not easy."

Directed by Hayao Miyazaki
Written by Hayao Miyazaki
Music by Joe Hisaishi
Cinematography by Shigeo Sugimura
Editing by Takeshi Seyama

"He looks determined... without being ruthless. There's something heroic about him. He doesn't look like a killer. He comes across so calm... acts like he has a dream... eyes full of passion."

Directed by John Woo
Written by John Woo
Music by Lowell Lo
Cinematography by Peter Pau and Wing-Hang Wong
Editing by Kung-Wing Fan

"She broke up with me. What do I do? Can she come back? How can I get her back? I can't - I can't get her to talk to me. It's all so fucked up. I feel like crying. She gave me a pen. I gave her my heart and she gave me a pen."

Directed by Cameron Crowe
Written by Cameron Crowe
Music by Anne Dudley and Richard Gibbs
Cinematography by László Kovács
Editing by Richard Marks

"Nazis. I hate these guys."

Directed by Steven Spielberg
Written by George Lucas, Menno Meyjes and Jeffrey Boam
Music by John Williams
Cinematography by Douglas Slocombe
Editing by Michael Kahn and George Lucas

"Tell me something, my friend. You ever dance with the devil in the pale moonlight?"

Directed by Tim Burton
Written by Sam Hamm and Warren Skaaren
Music by Danny Elfman
Cinematography by Roger Pratt
Editing by Ray Lovejoy

"Roads? Where we're going, we don't need roads."

Directed by Robert Zemeckis
Written by Robert Zemeckis and Bob Gale
Music by Alan Silvestri
Cinematography by Dean Cundey
Editing by Harry Keramidas and Arthur Schmidt

"I came here tonight because when you realize you want to spend the rest of your life with somebody, you want the rest of your life to start as soon as possible."

Directed by Rob Reiner
Written by Nora Ephron
Music by
Cinematography by Barry Sonnenfeld
Editing by Robert Leighton

"We're back, we're bad, you're black, I'm mad."

Directed by Richard Donner
Written by Shane Black, Warren Murphy and Jeffrey Boam
Music by Eric Clapton, Michael Kamen and David Sanborn
Cinematography by Stephen Goldblatt
Editing by Stuart Baird

"I've never seen that. I've never seen anybody drive their garbage down to the street and bang the hell out of it with a stick. I-I've never seen that."

Directed by Joe Dante
Written by Dana Olsen
Music by Jerry Goldsmith
Cinematography by Robert M. Stevens
Editing by Marshall Harvey

"O Captain! My Captain!"

Directed by Peter Weir
Written by Tom Schulman
Music by Maurice Jarre
Cinematography by John Seale
Editing by William M. Anderson

"When it comes to the safety of these people, there's me and then there's God, understand?"

Directed by James Cameron
Written by James Cameron
Music by Alan Silvestri
Cinematography by Mikael Salomon
Editing by Conrad Buff IV, Joel Goodman and Howard E. Smith

"Merry Christmas. Shitter was full!"

Directed by Jeremiah S. Chechik
Written by John Hughes
Music by Angelo Badalamenti
Cinematography by Thomas E. Ackerman
Editing by Gerald B. Greenberg and Michael A. Stevenson

"I remember reading somewhere that men learn to love the person that they're attracted to, and that women become more and more attracted to the person that they love."

Directed by Steven Soderbergh
Written by Steven Soderbergh
Music by Cliff Martinez
Cinematography by Walt Lloyd
Editing by Steven Soderbergh

"You must learn to be faster than any punch or kick, that way won't get hit."

Directed by Mark DiSalle and David Worth
Written by Mark DiSalle, Jean-Claude Van Damme and Glenn A. Bruce
Music by Paul Hertzog
Cinematography by Jon Kranhouse
Editing by Wayne Wahrman

"Señor Bond, you got big cojones. You come here, to my place, without references, carrying a piece, throwing around a lot of money... but you should know something: nobody saw you come in, so nobody has to see you go out."

Directed by John Glen
Written by Michael G. Wilson and Richard Maibaum
Music by Michael Kamen
Cinematography by Alec Mills
Editing by John Grover

"A lot of people hate this hat. It angers a lot of people, just the sight of it."

Directed by John Hughes
Written by John Hughes
Music by Ira Newborn
Cinematography by Ralf D. Bode
Editing by Lou Lombardo, Tony Lombardo and Peck Prior

"Most people don't know how they're gonna feel from one moment to the next. But a dope fiend has a pretty good idea. All you gotta do is look at the labels on the little bottles."

Directed by Gus Van Sant
Written by Gus Van Sant and Daniel Yost
Music by Elliot Goldenthal
Cinematography by Robert D. Yeoman
Editing by Mary Bauer and Curtiss Clayton

"Sometimes, dead is better."

Directed by Mary Lambert
Written by Stephen King
Music by Elliot Goldenthal
Cinematography by Peter Stein
Editing by Daniel P. Hanley and Mike Hill

"You know what I'd love for lunch? Fresh asparagus, then, um, pasta - angel hair pasta with heaps of basil, garlic, olive oil and, um, apple pie. Yeah. Uh, John, have you got a towel?"

Directed by Phillip Noyce
Written by Terry Hayes
Music by Graeme Revell
Cinematography by Dean Semler
Editing by Richard Francis-Bruce

"Take the biggest guy in the world, shatter his knee and he'll drop like a stone."

Directed by Rowdy Herrington
Written by R. Lance Hill and Hilary Henkin
Music by Michael Kamen
Cinematography by Dean Cundey
Editing by John F. Link and Frank J. Urioste

"You're a good boy, Tommy. Grow up to be a good man. Because if you don't... I'll be waiting."

Directed by Mark Goldblatt
Written by Boaz Yakin
Music by Dennis Dreith
Cinematography by Ian Baker
Editing by Tim Wellburn

"Rambo? Rambo's a pussy."

Directed by Andrey Konchalovskiy and Albert Magnoli
Written by Randy Feldman
Music by Harold Faltermeyer
Cinematography by Donald E. Thorin
Editing by Hubert de La Bouillerie and Robert A. Ferretti

"Look, you don't understand. There is a maniac trying to kill us!"
"Welcome to New York."

Directed by Rob Hedden
Written by Rob Hedden
Music by Fred Mollin
Cinematography by Bryan England
Editing by Steve Mirkovich and Ted Pryor