“Cube” quotes
(1997)Plot – Six people who don't know each other wake up in a cube-shaped room. They don't know why they are there or how they've arrived there. Quentin is a policeman, Rennes is a thief, Leaven is a brilliant math student, Holloway is a psychologist and Kazan is an autistic boy. Then there's Worth, an architect who claims that he has participated to the construction of that same room. Gradually they realize the room is part of a larger cube, which contains in turn many other cubical rooms. Looking for a way out, the group is sorely tested by numerous pitfalls, hidden paths and dangers.
All actors – Maurice Dean Wint, David Hewlett, Nicole de Boer, Nicky Guadagni, Andrew Miller, Julian Richings, Wayne Robson
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“- Quentin: Why put people in it?
- Worth: Because it's here. You have to use it, or you admit it's pointless.
- Quentin: But it, it is pointless.
- Worth: Quentin... that's my point.”“- Leaven: What are you doing? You can't quit now. It's not your fault!
- Worth: I have nothing... to live for out there.
- Leaven: What is out there?
- Worth: Boundless human stupidity.
- Leaven: I can live with that.”“- Quentin: What do you live for? Do you have a wife, or a girlfriend, or something?
- Worth: Nope. I've gotta pretty fine collection of pornography.”- Quentin: We got an escape artist and a cop. There's gotta be a reason for that. You're a doctor. That gives you a function, a reason, right?
- Holloway: No! It just makes me go "Why me and not one of the other ten million doctors out there?".“Every day I mop up after your bleeding heart. The only reason you even exist is because I keep you! I know your type. No kids, no man to fuck you. So, you go around outraged, sticking your nose up other people's assholes. Sniffing their business.”
“- Holloway: You've got a gift.
- Leaven: It's not a gift. It's just a brain.”“This is an accident, a forgotten, perpetual public works project. You think anybody wants to ask questions? All they want is a clear conscience and a fat paycheck.”
“No more talking. No more guessing. Don't even think about nothing that's not right in front of you. That's the real challenge. You've gotta save yourselves from yourselves.”
“It's all the same machine. The Pentagon, multinational corporations, the police. If you do one little job, you build a widget in Saskatoon, and the next thing you know, it's two miles under the desert.”
“- Holloway: I think we have to ask the big questions! What does it want? What is it thinking?
- Worth: One down, four to go.”“- Worth: I don't wanna die, I'm just being realistic. Do you think they'd go to all the trouble to build this thing if we could just walk out?
- Quentin: Do you think they would have left us clues and let us beat it so far if there wasn't a way out?”“- Quentin: Is that your two cents worth, Worth?
- Worth: For what it's worth.”“- Leaven: How do you map a point that keeps moving?
- Worth: Permutations.”
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