My Favorite Films of 1994

"If memories could be canned, would they also have expiry dates? If so, I hope they last for centuries."

Directed by Kar-Wai Wong
Written by Kar-Wai Wong
Music by Frankie Chan, Michael Galasso and Roel A. García
Cinematography by Christopher Doyle and Andrew Lau
Editing by William Chang, Kit-Wai Kai and Chi-Leung Kwong

"Visions are worth fighting for. Why spend your life making someone else's dreams?"

Directed by Tim Burton
Written by Scott Alexander and Larry Karaszewski
Music by Howard Shore
Cinematography by Stefan Czapsky
Editing by Chris Lebenzon

"That's when you know you've found somebody special. When you can just shut the fuck up for a minute and comfortably enjoy the silence."

Directed by Quentin Tarantino
Written by Quentin Tarantino and Roger Avary
Music by Andrzej Sekula
Cinematography by Sally Menke
Editing by Ronnie Yeskel and Gary M. Zuckerbrod

"You know why they call them Indians? Because Columbus thought he was in India. They're "Indians" because some white guy got lost."

Directed by Robert Redford
Written by Paul Attanasio
Music by Mark Isham
Cinematography by Michael Ballhaus
Editing by Stu Linder

"I've never seen a dead body before. I saw my grandmother of course, but I don't think that counts. I mean, she was alive at the time."

Directed by Danny Boyle
Written by John Hodge
Music by Simon Boswell
Cinematography by Brian Tufano
Editing by Masahiro Hirakubo

"What does it mean when there's a picture of a skull?"
"Good stuff!"

Directed by Chia-Liang Liu and Jackie Chan
Written by Edward Tang, Man-Ming Tong and Kai-Chi Yuen
Music by Wai Lap Wu
Cinematography by Tony Cheung, Yiu-Tsou Cheung, Wen-Yun Huang and Jingle Ma
Editing by Peter Cheung

"Is life always this hard, or is it just when you're a kid?"
"Always like this."

Directed by Luc Besson
Written by Luc Besson
Music by Éric Serra
Cinematography by Thierry Arbogast
Editing by Sylvie Landra

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

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

"I used to think you were a swell guy. Well, to be honest, I thought you were an imbecile. But then I figured out you WERE a swell guy... A little slow, maybe, but a swell guy. Well, maybe you're not so slow, But you're not so swell either. And it looks like you're an imbecile after all!"

Directed by Joel and Ethan Coen
Written by Sam Raimi, Joel and Ethan Coen
Music by Carter Burwell
Cinematography by Roger Deakins
Editing by Thom Noble

"The next time I write in this diary, Mother will be dead. How odd... yet how pleasing."

Directed by Peter Jackson
Written by Peter Jackson and Fran Walsh
Music by Peter Dasent
Cinematography by Alun Bollinger
Editing by Jamie Selkirk

"Let me tell you something my friend. Hope is a dangerous thing. Hope can drive a man insane."

Directed by Frank Darabont
Written by Frank Darabont
Music by Thomas Newman
Cinematography by Roger Deakins
Editing by Richard Francis-Bruce

"I have something to give you. I don't want it anymore. Thirty hours of pain all at once, all for you."

Directed by Alex Proyas
Written by David J. Schow and John Shirley
Music by Graeme Revell
Cinematography by Dariusz Wolski
Editing by Dov Hoenig and M. Scott Smith

"The world changes, we do not, there lies the irony that finally kills us."

Directed by Neil Jordan
Written by Anne Rice
Music by Elliot Goldenthal
Cinematography by Philippe Rousselot
Editing by Mick Audsley and Joke van Wijk

"Have you found Jesus yet, Gump?"
"I didn't know I was supposed to be looking for him, sir."

Directed by Robert Zemeckis
Written by Eric Roth
Music by Alan Silvestri
Cinematography by Don Burgess
Editing by Arthur Schmidt

"Pop quiz, hotshot. There's a bomb on a bus. Once the bus goes 50 miles an hour, the bomb is armed. If it drops below 50, it blows up. What do you do? What do you do?"

Directed by Jan de Bont
Written by Graham Yost
Music by Mark Mancina
Cinematography by Andrzej Bartkowiak
Editing by John Wright

"This job would be great if it wasn't for the fucking customers."

Directed by Kevin Smith
Written by Kevin Smith
Music by
Cinematography by David Klein
Editing by Kevin Smith and Scott Mosier

"I thought you were a nice guy."
"I am a nice guy. Just a different kind of nice guy."

Directed by Curtis Hanson
Written by Denis O'Neill
Music by Jerry Goldsmith
Cinematography by Robert Elswit
Editing by David Brenner and Joe Hutshing

"She gave me a bunch of crap about me not listening to her, or something. I don't know, I wasn't really paying attention."

Directed by Peter and Bobby Farrelly
Written by Bennett Yellin, Peter and Bobby Farrelly
Music by Todd Rundgren
Cinematography by Mark Irwin
Editing by Christopher Greenbury

"Have you ever killed anyone?"
"Yeah, but they were all bad."

Directed by James Cameron
Written by James Cameron
Music by Brad Fiedel
Cinematography by Russell Carpenter
Editing by Conrad Buff IV, Mark Goldblatt, Richard A. Harris and James Cameron

"Well, now, I bring all sorts of plusses to the table. I hardly ever bluff and I never ever cheat."

Directed by Richard Donner
Written by William Goldman
Music by Randy Newman
Cinematography by Vilmos Zsigmond
Editing by Stuart Baird and Michael Kelly

"When we die, our bodies become the grass, and the antelope eat the grass. And so we are all connected in the great Circle of Life."

Directed by Roger Allers and Rob Minkoff
Written by Irene Mecchi, Jonathan Roberts and Linda Woolverton
Music by Hans Zimmer
Cinematography by
Editing by Ivan Bilancio

"It's just murder. All God's creatures do it. You look in the forests and you see species killing other species, our species killing all species including the forests, and we just call it industry, not murder."

Directed by Oliver Stone
Written by Quentin Tarantino, David Veloz, Richard Rutowski and Oliver Stone
Music by Brent Lewis
Cinematography by Robert Richardson
Editing by Brian Berdan and Hank Corwin

"I was a lesbian once at school, but only for about fifteen minutes. I don't think it counts."

Directed by Mike Newell
Written by Richard Curtis
Music by Richard Rodney Bennett
Cinematography by Michael Coulter
Editing by Jon Gregory

"You see, I'm an ambitious Harvard-educated visionary who deserves to be the most powerful man in the world and you... you're a fucking idiot who never figured out that the only way to make anything of himself with all that fancy kicking was on Broadway."

Directed by Peter Hyams
Written by Mark Verheiden and Mike Richardson
Music by Mark Isham
Cinematography by Peter Hyams
Editing by Steven Kemper

"Life is not a movie. Good guys lose, everybody lies, and love... does not conquer all."

Directed by George Huang
Written by George Huang
Music by Tom Hiel
Cinematography by Steven Finestone
Editing by Ed Marx