My Favorite Films of 1992

"I've killed women and children. I've killed just about everything that walks or crawled at one time or another. And I'm here to kill you, Little Bill, for what you did to Ned."

Directed by Clint Eastwood
Written by David Webb Peoples
Music by Lennie Niehaus
Cinematography by Jack N. Green
Editing by Joel Cox

"Give a guy a gun, he thinks he's Superman. Give him two and he thinks he's God."

Directed by John Woo
Written by John Woo, Barry Wong and Gordon Chan
Music by Michael Gibbs
Cinematography by Wing-Hang Wong
Editing by John Woo, Ah-Chik, Kit-Wai Kai and David Wu

"I envy you. Convenient memory is a gift from God."

Directed by Paul Schrader
Written by Paul Schrader
Music by Michael Been
Cinematography by Edward Lachman
Editing by Kristina Boden

"Listen kid, I'm not gonna bullshit you, all right? I don't give a good fuck what you know, or don't know, but I'm gonna torture you anyway, regardless. Not to get information. It's amusing, to me, to torture a cop. You can say anything you want cause I've heard it all before. All you can do is pray for a quick death, which you ain't gonna get."

Directed by Quentin Tarantino
Written by Quentin Tarantino
Music by Andrzej Sekula
Cinematography by Sally Menke
Editing by Ronnie Yeskel

"We didn't land on Plymouth Rock. Plymouth Rock landed on us!"

Directed by Spike Lee
Written by Spike Lee and Arnold Perl
Music by Terence Blanchard
Cinematography by Ernest R. Dickerson
Editing by Barry Alexander Brown

"When this kind of fire starts, it is very hard to put out. The tender boughs of innocence burn first, and the wind rises, and then all goodness is in jeopardy."

Directed by David Lynch
Written by David Lynch and Robert Engels
Music by Angelo Badalamenti
Cinematography by Ronald Víctor García
Editing by Mary Sweeney

"They will say that I have shed innocent blood. What's blood for if not for shedding? With my hook for a hand, I'll split you from your groin to your gullet. I came for you."

Directed by Bernard Rose
Written by Bernard Rose
Music by Philip Glass
Cinematography by Anthony B. Richmond
Editing by Dan Rae

"Uhm, Wayne? What do you do if every time you see this one incredible woman, you think you're gonna hurl?"
"I say hurl. If you blow chunks and she comes back, she's yours. But if you spew and she bolts, then it was never meant to be."

Directed by Penelope Spheeris
Written by Mike Myers, Bonnie Turner and Terry Turner
Music by J. Peter Robinson
Cinematography by Theo van de Sande
Editing by Malcolm Campbell

"I was just thinking what an interesting concept it is to eliminate the writer from the artistic process. If we could just get rid of these actors and directors, maybe we've got something here."

Directed by Robert Altman
Written by Michael Tolkin
Music by Thomas Newman
Cinematography by Jean Lépine
Editing by Maysie Hoy and Geraldine Peroni

"Imagine you're a deer. You're prancing along, you get thirsty, you spot a little brook, you put your little deer lips down to the cool clear water... BAM! A fuckin bullet rips off part of your head! Your brains are laying on the ground in little bloody pieces! Now I ask ya. Would you give a fuck what kind of pants the son of a bitch who shot you was wearing?"

Directed by Jonathan Lynn
Written by Dale Launer
Music by Randy Edelman
Cinematography by Peter Deming
Editing by Tony Lombardo and Stephen E. Rivkin

"Put that coffee down! Coffee's for closers only. You think I'm fucking with you? I am not fucking with you! I'm here from downtown. I'm here from Mitch and Murray. And I'm here on a mission of mercy. Your name's Levine? You call yourself a salesman, you son of a bitch?"

Directed by James Foley
Written by David Mamet
Music by James Newton Howard
Cinematography by Juan Ruiz Anchía
Editing by Howard E. Smith

"No! You stay alive! If they don't kill you, they'll take you north up to the Huron lands. Submit, do you hear? You're strong! You survive! You stay alive, no matter what occurs! I will find you! No matter how long it takes, no matter how far. I will find you!"

Directed by Michael Mann
Written by Michael Mann and Christopher Crowe
Music by Trevor Jones and Randy Edelman
Cinematography by Dante Spinotti
Editing by Dov Hoenig and Arthur Schmidt

"This is life's ultimate cruelty. It offers us a taste of youth and vitality, and then it makes us witness our own decay."

Directed by Robert Zemeckis
Written by Martin Donovan and David Koepp
Music by Alan Silvestri
Cinematography by Dean Cundey
Editing by Arthur Schmidt

"Seems like every woman you try to save ends up dead... or deeply resentful. Maybe you should retire."

Directed by Tim Burton
Written by Daniel Waters and Sam Hamm
Music by Danny Elfman
Cinematography by Stefan Czapsky
Editing by Bob Badami and Chris Lebenzon

"Are you crying? Are you crying? ARE YOU CRYING? There's no crying! THERE'S NO CRYING IN BASEBALL!"

Directed by Penny Marshall
Written by Kim Wilson, Kelly Candaele, Lowell Ganz and Babaloo Mandel
Music by Hans Zimmer
Cinematography by Miroslav Ondrícek
Editing by Adam Bernardi and George Bowers

"I WANT THE TRUTH!"
"YOU CAN'T HANDLE THE TRUTH!"

Directed by Rob Reiner
Written by Aaron Sorkin
Music by Marc Shaiman
Cinematography by Robert Richardson
Editing by Robert Leighton and Steven Nevius

"This is Admiral Bates speaking. I am trying to get a hold of Chief Ryback. Is he about?"
"He's in a gunfight right now. I'm gonna have to take a message."

Directed by Andrew Davis
Written by J.F. Lawton
Music by Gary Chang
Cinematography by Frank Tidy
Editing by Don Brochu, Robert A. Ferretti, Dov Hoenig and Dennis Virkler

"Boy, that's scary stuff! Should we be worried about the kids in the audience?"
"Nah, it's all right. This is culture!"

Directed by Brian Henson
Written by Jerry Juhl
Music by Miles Goodman
Cinematography by John Fenner
Editing by Michael Jablow

"I try to do what she couldn't - Forgive myself. I know what can happen to someone who doesn't."

Directed by Barbet Schroeder
Written by Don Roos
Music by Howard Shore
Cinematography by Luciano Tovoli
Editing by Lee Percy

"This is love! Al, you're not gonna find another girl like her in a million years. Believe me, I know. I've looked."

Directed by Ron Clements and John Musker
Written by Ron Clements, John Musker, Ted Elliott and Terry Rossio
Music by Alan Menken
Cinematography by
Editing by H. Lee Peterson

"I figured you had to be French or something because of your accent."
"What accent?"

Directed by Roland Emmerich
Written by Richard Rothstein, Christopher Leitch and Dean Devlin
Music by Christopher Franke
Cinematography by Karl Walter Lindenlaub
Editing by Michael J. Duthie

"The world isn't run by weapons anymore, or energy, or money. It's run by little ones and zeroes, little bits of data. It's all just electrons."

Directed by Phil Alden Robinson
Written by Phil Alden Robinson, Lawrence Lasker and Walter F. Parkes
Music by James Horner
Cinematography by John Lindley
Editing by Tom Rolf

"Because they won't kill it. They might kill you just for having seen it but they're not gonna kill it."

Directed by David Fincher
Written by Vincent Ward, David Giler, Larry Ferguson and Walter Hill
Music by Elliot Goldenthal
Cinematography by Alex Thomson
Editing by Terry Rawlings

"Gimme some sugar, baby."

Directed by Sam Raimi
Written by Sam Raimi and Ivan Raimi
Music by Joseph LoDuca
Cinematography by Bill Pope
Editing by Sam Raimi and Bob Murawski

"The day we stop lookin', Charlie, is the day we die."

Directed by Martin Brest
Written by Bo Goldman
Music by Thomas Newman
Cinematography by Donald E. Thorin
Editing by Harvey Rosenstock, William Steinkamp and Michael Tronick