My Favorite Films of 1998

"You are my sons, my dear sons. You live inside me now. I'll carry you wherever I go."

Directed by Terrence Malick
Written by Terrence Malick
Music by Hans Zimmer
Cinematography by John Toll
Editing by Leslie Jones, Saar Klein and Billy Weber

"We accept the reality of the world with which we're presented. It's as simple as that."

Directed by Peter Weir
Written by Andrew Niccol
Music by Burkhard von Dallwitz
Cinematography by Peter Biziou
Editing by William M. Anderson and Lee Smith

"He better be worth it. He better go home and cure a disease, or invent a longer-lasting light bulb."

Directed by Steven Spielberg
Written by Robert Rodat
Music by John Williams
Cinematography by Janusz Kaminski
Editing by Michael Kahn

"Hank, do you ever feel evil? I do."

Directed by Sam Raimi
Written by Scott B. Smith
Music by Danny Elfman
Cinematography by Alar Kivilo
Editing by Eric L. Beason and Arthur Coburn

"There he goes. One of God's own prototypes. A high-powered mutant of some kind never even considered for mass production. Too weird to live, and too rare to die."

Directed by Terry Gilliam
Written by Terry Gilliam, Tony Grisoni, Tod Davies and Alex Cox
Music by Ray Cooper
Cinematography by Nicola Pecorini
Editing by Lesley Walker

"So I guess this is where I tell you what I learned - my conclusion, right? Well, my conclusion is: Hate is baggage. Life's too short to be pissed off all the time. It's just not worth it."

Directed by Tony Kaye
Written by David McKenna
Music by Anne Dudley
Cinematography by Tony Kaye
Editing by Gerald B. Greenberg and Alan Heim

"No questions. No answers. That's the business we're in. You just accept it and move on. Maybe that's lesson number three."

Directed by John Frankenheimer
Written by J.D. Zeik and David Mamet
Music by Elia Cmiral
Cinematography by Robert Fraisse
Editing by Antony Gibbs

"A minute ago this was the safest job in the world. Now it's turning into a bad day in Bosnia."

Directed by Guy Ritchie
Written by Guy Ritchie
Music by David A. Hughes and John Murphy
Cinematography by Tim Maurice-Jones
Editing by Niven Howie

"Walter, I love you, but sooner or later, you're going to have to face the fact you're a goddamn moron."

Directed by Joel and Ethan Coen
Written by Joel and Ethan Coen
Music by Carter Burwell
Cinematography by Roger Deakins
Editing by Tricia Cooke, Joel and Ethan Coen

"Let me tell you something son, you get that hatred out your heart, or you'll end up just another nigga, like your father."

Directed by Spike Lee
Written by Spike Lee
Music by
Cinematography by Ellen Kuras and Malik Hassan Sayeed
Editing by Barry Alexander Brown

"Well, if they're big and you're small, then you're mobile and they're slow. You're hidden and they're exposed. You only fight battles you know you can win. That's the way the Vietcong did it. You capture their weapons and you use them against them the next time."

Directed by Tony Scott
Written by David Marconi
Music by Harry Gregson-Williams and Trevor Rabin
Cinematography by Dan Mindel
Editing by Chris Lebenzon

"Well, the man don't just have to die, Foley. I mean, he could accidentally hurt himself falling down on something real hard, you know? Like a shiv, or my dick?"

Directed by Steven Soderbergh
Written by Scott Frank
Music by David Holmes
Cinematography by Elliot Davis
Editing by Anne V. Coates

"I saved Latin. What did you ever do?"

Directed by Wes Anderson
Written by Wes Anderson and Owen Wilson
Music by Mark Mothersbaugh
Cinematography by Robert D. Yeoman
Editing by David Moritz

"You take it away... to show them what they had."

Directed by Christopher Nolan
Written by Christopher Nolan
Music by David Julyan
Cinematography by Christopher Nolan
Editing by Christopher Nolan and Gareth Heal

"What? There are knock-off artists? In Hong Kong? I'm shocked!"

Directed by Hark Tsui
Written by Steven E. de Souza
Music by Ron Mael and Russell Mael
Cinematography by Arthur Wong
Editing by Craig Henighan, Marco Mak and Annellie Rose Samuel

"I couldn't believe that she knew my name. Some of my best friends didn't know my name."

Directed by Peter and Bobby Farrelly
Written by Ed Decter, John J. Strauss, Peter and Bobby Farrelly
Music by Jonathan Richman
Cinematography by Mark Irwin
Editing by Christopher Greenbury

"When I was a little kid, my mother told me not to stare into the sun, so when I was six I did..."

Directed by Darren Aronofsky
Written by Darren Aronofsky, Sean Gullette and Eric Watson
Music by Clint Mansell
Cinematography by Matthew Libatique
Editing by Oren Sarch

"Clay, do me a favor; don't find anymore dead bodies."

Directed by David Dobkin
Written by Matthew L. Healy
Music by John Lurie
Cinematography by Eric Alan Edwards
Editing by Stan Salfas

"Ryuji? When it's time for me to die... Stay with me."

Directed by Hideo Nakata
Written by Hiroshi Takahashi
Music by Kenji Kawai
Cinematography by Jun'ichirô Hayashi
Editing by Nobuyuki Takahashi

"Listen, here's the thing. If you can't spot the sucker in your first half hour at the table, then you ARE the sucker."

Directed by John Dahl
Written by David Levien and Brian Koppelman
Music by Christopher Young
Cinematography by Jean-Yves Escoffier
Editing by Scott Chestnut

"People aren't always what they appear to be. Don't forget that."

Directed by John McNaughton
Written by Stephen Peters
Music by George S. Clinton
Cinematography by Jeffrey L. Kimball
Editing by Elena Maganini

"I'm not putting that hack drug up my nose - it's so eighties!"

Directed by Robert Rodriguez
Written by David Wechter, Bruce Kimmel and Kevin Williamson
Music by Marco Beltrami
Cinematography by Enrique Chediak
Editing by Robert Rodriguez

"But the worst thing is: that Me, Fatty, Sideburns Lady, and the mutants over at Table 9, will never ever find a way to better the situation, because apparently we have nothing to offer the opposite sex."

Directed by Frank Coraci
Written by Tim Herlihy
Music by Teddy Castellucci
Cinematography by Tim Suhrstedt
Editing by Tom Lewis

"It isn't lying! You just tell them what you did right, and you leave out the rest!"

Directed by Brian De Palma
Written by Brian De Palma and David Koepp
Music by Ryuichi Sakamoto
Cinematography by Stephen H. Burum
Editing by Bill Pankow

"Good evening. My name is Gundersen. Solan Gundersen. Private eye here in Oslo's best west side and in this job it isn't enough with regular small birds."

Directed by John M. Jacobsen and Nille Tystad
Written by Kjell Aukrust and Vibeke Idsøe
Music by Kjetil Bjerkestrand
Cinematography by
Editing by Einar Egeland