My Favorite Films of 2001

"It'll be just like in the movies. Pretending to be somebody else."

Directed by David Lynch
Written by David Lynch
Music by Angelo Badalamenti
Cinematography by Peter Deming
Editing by Mary Sweeney

"Once you do something, you never forget. Even if you can't remember."

Directed by Hayao Miyazaki
Written by Hayao Miyazaki
Music by Joe Hisaishi
Cinematography by Atsushi Okui
Editing by Takeshi Seyama

"Without you, today's emotions would be the scurf of yesterday's."

Directed by Jean-Pierre Jeunet
Written by Jean-Pierre Jeunet and Guillaume Laurant
Music by Yann Tiersen
Cinematography by Bruno Delbonnel
Editing by Hervé Schneid

"Had I really made a friend without any help from the Norwegian government?"

Directed by Petter Næss
Written by Axel Hellstenius and Larry Stuckey
Music by Lars Lillo-Stenberg
Cinematography by Svein Krøvel
Editing by Inge-Lise Langfeldt

"I'm very sorry for your loss. Your mother was a terribly attractive woman."

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

"If I could go back in time and change everything back, I would!"
"That's really cool. If I could go back in time, I would want to meet Snoopy."

Directed by Harry Elfont and Deborah Kaplan
Written by Harry Elfont and Deborah Kaplan
Music by John Frizzell
Cinematography by Matthew Libatique
Editing by Peter Teschner

"A wizard is never late, Frodo Baggins. Nor is he early. He arrives precisely when he means to."

Directed by Peter Jackson
Written by Peter Jackson, Fran Walsh and Philippa Boyens
Music by Howard Shore
Cinematography by Andrew Lesnie
Editing by John Gilbert

"If I want to die, I'll die right here, right now, fightin' you, if I want to die. You my enemy, not no Chinese, no Vietcong, no Japanese. You my opposer when I want freedom. You my opposer when I want justice. You my opposer when I want equality. Want me to go somewhere and fight for you? You won't even stand up for me right here in America, for my rights and my religious beliefs."

Directed by Michael Mann
Written by Michael Mann, Stephen J. Rivele, Christopher Wilkinson and Eric Roth
Music by Pieter Bourke and Lisa Gerrard
Cinematography by Emmanuel Lubezki
Editing by William Goldenberg, Lynzee Klingman and Stephen E. Rivkin

"To protect the sheep you gotta catch the wolf, and it takes a wolf to catch a wolf."

Directed by Antoine Fuqua
Written by David Ayer
Music by Mark Mancina
Cinematography by Mauro Fiore
Editing by Conrad Buff IV

"I can't relate to 99% of humanity."

Directed by Terry Zwigoff
Written by Terry Zwigoff
Music by David Kitay
Cinematography by Affonso Beato
Editing by Carole Kravetz Aykanian and Michael R. Miller

"Life has dealt me some bum cards. Or maybe I just haven't played 'em right, I don't know."

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

"Y'know what I think? Don't really matter what I think. Once that first bullet goes past your head, politics and all that shit just goes right out the window."

Directed by Ridley Scott
Written by Ken Nolan
Music by Hans Zimmer
Cinematography by Slawomir Idziak
Editing by Pietro Scalia

"Hey, Mike, this might sound crazy but I don't think that kid's dangerous."
"Really? Well, in that case, let's keep it. I always wanted a pet that could kill me."

Directed by Pete Docter, David Silverman and Lee Unkrich
Written by Pete Docter, Jill Culton, Jeff Pidgeon, Ralph Eggleston, Andrew Stanton and Daniel Gerson
Music by Randy Newman
Cinematography by
Editing by Jim Stewart

"Death of a loved one can lead people to do the strangest things."

Directed by Alejandro Amenábar
Written by Alejandro Amenábar
Music by Alejandro Amenábar
Cinematography by Javier Aguirresarobe
Editing by Nacho Ruiz Capillas

"Of the days that I have lived, only those I spent with you seemed real."

Directed by Shin'ichirô Watanabe and Yoshiyuki Takei
Written by Keiko Nobumoto and Hajime Yatate
Music by Yôko Kanno
Cinematography by Katsutoshi Sugai and Yôichi Ôgami
Editing by Shûichi Kakesu

"I'm pretty sure there's a lot more to life than being really, really, ridiculously good looking. And I plan on finding out what that is."

Directed by Ben Stiller
Written by Ben Stiller, Drake Sather and John Hamburg
Music by David Arnold
Cinematography by Barry Peterson
Editing by Greg Hayden

"All right, you proved your point. You broke into my vault. Congratulations, you're a dead man."

Directed by Steven Soderbergh
Written by Ted Griffin
Music by David Holmes
Cinematography by Steven Soderbergh
Editing by Stephen Mirrione

"When you become a real boy, remember me to the ladies when you grow up."

Directed by Steven Spielberg
Written by Steven Spielberg and Ian Watson
Music by John Williams
Cinematography by Janusz Kaminski
Editing by Michael Kahn

"Lies appear true when dressed in Latin."

Directed by Christophe Gans
Written by Christophe Gans and Stéphane Cabel
Music by Joseph LoDuca
Cinematography by Dan Laustsen
Editing by Xavier Loutreuil, Sébastien Prangère and David Wu

"I hope that when the world comes to an end, I can breathe a sigh of relief, because there will be so much to look forward to."

Directed by Richard Kelly
Written by Richard Kelly
Music by Michael Andrews
Cinematography by Steven Poster
Editing by Sam Bauer and Eric Strand

"You taste like a burger. I don't like you anymore."

Directed by David Wain
Written by David Wain and Michael Showalter
Music by Theodore Shapiro and Craig Wedren
Cinematography by Ben Weinstein
Editing by Meg Reticker

"If I'm walking into a shit storm I wanna know which way the wind's blowing."

Directed by Tony Scott
Written by Michael Frost Beckner and David Arata
Music by Harry Gregson-Williams
Cinematography by Dan Mindel
Editing by Christian Wagner

"I wouldn't have missed a single minute of it, Bobby. Not for the whole world."

Directed by Scott Hicks
Written by William Goldman
Music by Mychael Danna
Cinematography by Piotr Sobocinski
Editing by Pip Karmel

"I want to say hello to my parents and my Kung Fu master, but they're all dead."

Directed by Stephen Chow
Written by Stephen Chow, Kan-Cheung Tsang, Min-Hun Fung and Chi-Keung Fung
Music by Ying-Wah Wong
Cinematography by Pak-Suen Kwan and Ting-Wo Kwong
Editing by Kit-Wai Kai

"It is a truth universally acknowledged that when one part of your life starts going okay, another falls spectacularly to pieces."

Directed by Sharon Maguire
Written by Helen Fielding, Andrew Davies and Richard Curtis
Music by Patrick Doyle
Cinematography by Stuart Dryburgh
Editing by Martin Walsh