“The other places are like kindergardens compared with this. It smells so incredibly evil! I didn't think such a place existed except in my own imagination. It has a ghastly familiarity like a half-remembered dream. Anything could happen here... any moment...”
Gene Tierney - Poppy

“- Irena Dubrovna Reed: I fled from the past. From things you could never know or understand. Evil things. Evil!
- Oliver Reed: You told me something of the past about King John and the witches in the village and the Cat People descended from them. They're fairy tales, Irena. Fairy tales heard in your childhood.”
Simone Simon - Irena Dubrovna Reed
Kent Smith - Oliver Reed

“- Joshua 'Josh' Leonard: I see why you like this video camera so much.
- Heather Donahue: You do?
- Joshua 'Josh' Leonard: It's not quite reality. It's like a totally filtered reality. It's like you can pretend everything's not quite the way it is.”
Joshua 'Josh' Leonard - Himself
Heather Donahue - Herself

Think of being curled up and floating in the darkness. Even if you could think, even if you had an imagination, would you ever imagine its opposite, this miraculous world? The Asian Taoists called it "10,000 Things". And if the darkness just got darker and then you were dead, what would you care? How would you even know the difference?
Billy Crudup - FH

“From here on out, I am only interested in what is real. Real people, real feelings, that's it, that's all I'm interested in.”
Billy Crudup - Russell Hammond