“- 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

“- Coulmier: It's nothing but an encyclopedia of perversions. One man killed his wife after reading them.
- The Marquis de Sade: It's a fiction, not a moral treatise.”
Joaquin Phoenix - Coulmier
Geoffrey Rush - The Marquis de Sade

“I've seen another world. Sometimes I think it was just my imagination.”
Jim Caviezel - Pvt. Witt