My Favorite Films of 2002

"I have a love in my life. It makes me stronger than anything you can imagine."

Directed by Paul Thomas Anderson
Written by Paul Thomas Anderson
Music by Jon Brion
Cinematography by Robert Elswit
Editing by Leslie Jones

"I loved Sarah, Charles. It was mine, that love. I owned it. Even Sarah didn't have the right to take it away. I can love whoever I want."

Directed by Spike Jonze
Written by Charlie Kaufman
Music by Carter Burwell
Cinematography by Lance Acord
Editing by Eric Zumbrunnen

"Why return to the City of God, where God forgets about you?"

Directed by Fernando Meirelles and Kátia Lund
Written by Bráulio Mantovani
Music by Ed Côrtes and Antonio Pinto
Cinematography by César Charlone
Editing by Daniel Rezende

"Champagne for my real friends, and real pain for my sham friends."

Directed by Spike Lee
Written by David Benioff
Music by Terence Blanchard
Cinematography by Rodrigo Prieto
Editing by Barry Alexander Brown

"I'm not being set up. I really am going to kill this man."

Directed by Steven Spielberg
Written by Scott Frank and Jon Cohen
Music by John Williams
Cinematography by Janusz Kaminski
Editing by Michael Kahn

"Two little mice fell in a bucket of cream. The first mouse quickly gave up and drowned. The second mouse, wouldn't quit. He struggled so hard that eventually he churned that cream into butter and crawled out. Gentlemen, as of this moment, I am that second mouse."

Directed by Steven Spielberg
Written by Jeff Nathanson
Music by John Williams
Cinematography by Janusz Kaminski
Editing by Michael Kahn

"I know you're a good guy... but you know why I have to kill you..."

Directed by Park Chan-wook
Written by Park Chan-wook, Mu-yeong Lee, Jae-sun Lee and Jong-yong Lee
Music by Hyeon-jin Baek, Young-gyu Jang and Byung-hoon Lee
Cinematography by Byeong-il Kim
Editing by Jae-beom Kim and Kim Sang-beom

"He was the only man I ever killed worth remembering."

Directed by Martin Scorsese
Written by Jay Cocks, Steven Zaillian and Kenneth Lonergan
Music by Howard Shore
Cinematography by Michael Ballhaus
Editing by Thelma Schoonmaker

"If you look at the whole life of the planet, we, you know, man has only been around for a few blinks of an eye. So, if the infection wipes us all out... that is a return to normality."

Directed by Danny Boyle
Written by Alex Garland
Music by John Murphy
Cinematography by Anthony Dod Mantle
Editing by Chris Gill

"Let's drink to Danny's honor. Let's wake him to God and hope he gets to heaven at least an hour before the devil finds out he's dead."

Directed by Sam Mendes
Written by David Self
Music by Thomas Newman
Cinematography by Conrad L. Hall
Editing by Jill Bilcock

"Well, I spent the last 12 years of my life building these rooms specifically to keep out people like us."

Directed by David Fincher
Written by David Koepp
Music by Howard Shore
Cinematography by Conrad W. Hall and Darius Khondji
Editing by James Haygood and Angus Wall

"You don't want to hurt anyone."
"But I do, and I'm sorry. It won't stop."

Directed by Gore Verbinski
Written by Ehren Kruger
Music by Hans Zimmer
Cinematography by Bojan Bazelli
Editing by Craig Wood

"There's a monster outside my room, can I have a glass of water?"

Directed by M. Night Shyamalan
Written by M. Night Shyamalan
Music by James Newton Howard
Cinematography by Tak Fujimoto
Editing by Barbara Tulliver

"You don't get it do you, Finch? You're my job. You're what I'm paid to do. You're about as mysterious to me as a blocked toilet is to a fucking plumber. Reasons for doing what you did? Who gives a fuck?"

Directed by Christopher Nolan
Written by Hillary Seitz
Music by David Julyan
Cinematography by Wally Pfister
Editing by Dody Dorn

"What are we holding onto, Sam?"
"That there's some good in this world, Mr. Frodo... and it's worth fighting for."

Directed by Peter Jackson
Written by Peter Jackson, Fran Walsh, Philippa Boyens and Stephen Sinclair
Music by Howard Shore
Cinematography by Andrew Lesnie
Editing by Michael Horton

"How could I forget about you? You're the only person I know."

Directed by Doug Liman
Written by Tony Gilroy and William Blake Herron
Music by John Powell
Cinematography by Oliver Wood
Editing by Saar Klein

"Did you see the way I stopped the beanbag with my stomach? That's instinct. You can't teach that."

Directed by Jeff Tremaine
Written by The Jackass Crew
Music by Sam Spiegel
Cinematography by Dimitry Elyashkevich
Editing by Liz Ewart, Mark Hansen and Kristine Young Gaffney

"When you are young, your potential is infinite. You might do anything, really. You might be Einstein. You might be DiMaggio. Then you get to an age where what you might be gives way to what you have been. You weren't Einstein. You weren't anything. That's a bad moment."

Directed by George Clooney
Written by Charlie Kaufman
Music by Alex Wurman
Cinematography by Newton Thomas Sigel
Editing by Stephen Mirrione

"Once you open your door to one person anyone can come in."

Directed by Chris and Paul Weitz
Written by Peter Hedges, Chris and Paul Weitz
Music by Badly Drawn Boy
Cinematography by Remi Adefarasin
Editing by Nick Moore

"If more guns make people safer, then America would be one of the safest countries in the world. It isn't. It's the opposite."

Directed by Michael Moore
Written by Michael Moore
Music by Jeff Gibbs
Cinematography by
Editing by Kurt Engfehr

"Remember, with great power comes great responsibility."

Directed by Sam Raimi
Written by David Koepp
Music by Danny Elfman
Cinematography by Don Burgess
Editing by Arthur Coburn and Bob Murawski

"Isn't it funny? You hear a phone ring and it could be anybody. But a ringing phone has to be answered, doesn't it?"

Directed by Joel Schumacher
Written by Larry Cohen
Music by Harry Gregson-Williams
Cinematography by Matthew Libatique
Editing by Mark Stevens

"The only thing you need to know about me is that I'm gonna bag the motherfuckers who killed Mike."

Directed by Joe Carnahan
Written by Joe Carnahan
Music by Cliff Martinez
Cinematography by Alex Nepomniaschy
Editing by John Gilroy

"You better grow eyes in the back of your head, you horned piece of shit, because I'm not gonna sleep until worms are crawling up your foam-rubber ass! I'm goin' on safari motherfucker! SAH-FAR-I!"

Directed by Danny DeVito
Written by Adam Resnick
Music by David Newman
Cinematography by Anastas N. Michos
Editing by Jon Poll

"Look at you! Glowing like a solar fire. You're something special, Jim. You're gonna rattle the stars, you are!"

Directed by Ron Clements and John Musker
Written by Rob Edwards, Ron Clements and John Musker
Music by James Newton Howard
Cinematography by Rasoul Azadani
Editing by Michael Kelly