“I have imagined this moment for a long time. Is it real?”

Laurence Fishburne - Morpheus

“- Lucy Carrigan: I would lay in front of a tank if it would bring Max back and end this war.
- Jude: Yeah, it wouldn't.”

Evan Rachel Wood - Lucy Carrigan
Jim Sturgess - Jude

“This thing has dragged on too long for it to end in all sweetness and light and after what the Khmer Rouge have been through I don't think they're going to be exactly affectionate toward westerners.”
Spalding Gray - U.S. Consul

“- Le captaine von Rauffenstein: I don't know who will win this war, but whatever the outcome, it will mean the end of the Rauffensteins and the Boeldieus.
- Le captaine de Boeldieu: We're no longer needed.”
Erich von Stroheim - Le captaine von Rauffenstein
Pierre Fresnay - Le captaine de Boeldieu

“It's at the beginning and end of war that we have to watch out. In between, it's like a country club.”
John Malkovich - Basie