My Favorite Films of 2004

"Get with it. Millions of galaxies of hundreds of millions of stars, in a speck on one in a blink. That's us, lost in space. The cop, you, me... Who notices?"

Directed by Michael Mann
Written by Stuart Beattie
Music by James Newton Howard
Cinematography by Dion Beebe and Paul Cameron
Editing by Jim Miller and Paul Rubell

"Why do I fall in love with every woman I see who shows me the least bit of attention?"

Directed by Michel Gondry
Written by Michel Gondry, Pierre Bismuth and Charlie Kaufman
Music by Jon Brion
Cinematography by Ellen Kuras
Editing by Valdís Óskarsdóttir

"Don't point that gun at him, he's an unpaid intern."

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

"Memories can be painful. To forget may be a blessing!"

Directed by Stephen Chow
Written by Stephen Chow, Kan-Cheung Tsang, Xin Huo and Man-Keung Chan
Music by Stephen Chow and Ying-Wah Wong
Cinematography by Hang-Sang Poon
Editing by Angie Lam

"A man can be an artist... in anything, food, whatever. It depends on how good he is at it. Creasy's art is death. He's about to paint his masterpiece."

Directed by Tony Scott
Written by Brian Helgeland
Music by Harry Gregson-Williams
Cinematography by Paul Cameron
Editing by Christian Wagner

"Take car. Go to Mum's. Kill Phil - "Sorry." - grab Liz, go to the Winchester, have a nice cold pint, and wait for all of this to blow over. How's that for a slice of fried gold?"

Directed by Edgar Wright
Written by Edgar Wright and Simon Pegg
Music by Dan Mudford and Pete Woodhead
Cinematography by David M. Dunlap
Editing by Chris Dickens

"Lying's the most fun a girl can have without taking her clothes off - but it's better if you do."

Directed by Mike Nichols
Written by Patrick Marber
Music by
Cinematography by Stephen Goldblatt
Editing by John Bloom and Antonia Van Drimmelen

"If there's magic in boxing, it's the magic of fighting battles beyond endurance, beyond cracked ribs, ruptured kidneys and detached retinas. It's the magic of risking everything for a dream that nobody sees but you."

Directed by Clint Eastwood
Written by Paul Haggis
Music by Clint Eastwood
Cinematography by Tom Stern
Editing by Joel Cox

"They've done studies, you know. 60% of the time, it works every time."

Directed by Adam McKay
Written by Adam McKay and Will Ferrell
Music by Alex Wurman
Cinematography by Thomas E. Ackerman
Editing by Brent White

"I feel no sympathy. I repeat, I feel no sympathy! The German people chose their fate. That may surprise some people. Don't fool yourself. We didn't force the German people. They gave us a mandate, and now their little throats are being cut!"

Directed by Oliver Hirschbiegel
Written by Bernd Eichinger
Music by Stephan Zacharias
Cinematography by Rainer Klausmann
Editing by Hans Funck

"We're dead! We're dead! We survived but we're dead!"

Directed by Brad Bird
Written by Brad Bird
Music by Michael Giacchino
Cinematography by Andrew Jimenez, Patrick Lin and Janet Lucroy
Editing by Stephen Schaffer

"Right now I wanna sleep. I just want to sleep."

Directed by Brad Anderson
Written by Scott Kosar
Music by Roque Baños
Cinematography by Xavi Giménez
Editing by Luis de la Madrid

"You're not a bad person. You're a terrific person. You're my favorite person, but every once in a while, you can be a real cunt."

Directed by Quentin Tarantino
Written by Quentin Tarantino and Uma Thurman
Music by Robert Rodriguez
Cinematography by Robert Richardson
Editing by Sally Menke

"You don't steal a fucking Ferrari, unless someone's ordered it!"

Directed by Nicolas Winding Refn
Written by Nicolas Winding Refn
Music by Peter Peter
Cinematography by Morten Søborg
Editing by Janus Billeskov Jansen and Anne Østerud

"I believe there's a hero in all of us, that keeps us honest, gives us strength, makes us noble, and finally allows us to die with pride, even though sometimes we have to be steady, and give up the thing we want the most. Even our dreams."

Directed by Sam Raimi
Written by Alfred Gough, Miles Millar, Michael Chabon and Alvin Sargent
Music by Danny Elfman
Cinematography by Bill Pope
Editing by Bob Murawski

"I feel terrible, like there's a weight on my chest."
"A heart's a heavy burden."

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

"No, if anyone orders Merlot, I'm leaving. I am NOT drinking any fucking Merlot!"

Directed by Alexander Payne
Written by Alexander Payne and Jim Taylor
Music by Rolfe Kent
Cinematography by Phedon Papamichael
Editing by Kevin Tent

"Love is all a matter of timing. It's no good meeting the right person too soon or too late. If I'd lived in another time or place... my story might have had a very different ending."

Directed by Kar-Wai Wong
Written by Kar-Wai Wong
Music by Shigeru Umebayashi
Cinematography by Christopher Doyle and Pun-Leung Kwan
Editing by William Chang

"You don't care about money because you've always had it."

Directed by Martin Scorsese
Written by John Logan
Music by Howard Shore
Cinematography by Robert Richardson
Editing by Thelma Schoonmaker

"Frankie wasn't born deaf. It was a present from his daddy."

Directed by Shona Auerbach
Written by Andrea Gibb
Music by Alex Heffes
Cinematography by Shona Auerbach
Editing by Oral Norrie Ottey

"In his first eight months in office before September 11th, George W. Bush was on vacation, according to the Washington Post, forty-two percent of the time."

Directed by Michael Moore
Written by Michael Moore
Music by Jeff Gibbs
Cinematography by
Editing by Kurt Engfehr, Woody Richman and Christopher Seward

"If you're from Africa, why are you white?"
"Oh my God, Karen, you can't just ask people why they're white."

Directed by Mark Waters
Written by Tina Fey
Music by Rolfe Kent
Cinematography by Daryn Okada
Editing by Wendy Greene Bricmont

"As actors, it is our responsibility to read the newspapers, and then say what we read on television like it's our own opinion."

Directed by Trey Parker
Written by Trey Parker, Matt Stone and Pam Brady
Music by Harry Gregson-Williams
Cinematography by Bill Pope
Editing by Thomas M. Vogt

"England. Typical. Even drug dealers don't work weekends."

Directed by Matthew Vaughn
Written by J.J. Connolly
Music by Ilan Eshkeri and Lisa Gerrard
Cinematography by Ben Davis
Editing by Jon Harris

"How much you wanna make a bet I can throw a football over them mountains?"

Directed by Jared Hess
Written by Jared Hess and Jerusha Hess
Music by John Swihart
Cinematography by Munn Powell
Editing by Jeremy Coon