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As you know, Quotables loves to celebrate.
Today, we’re getting excited about the re-release of Fritz Lang’s seminal film Metropolis, an undisputed masterpiece in early sci-fi filmmaking, and a huge influence on the genre. Released in 1927, just as the talkies took over Hollywood, it proved that silent cinema was still relevant. After re-cuts, much of the original footage was lost. It was recently recovered and today marks the return of Metropolis to UK cinemas.
To celebrate the birth of a genre that has the power to re-invent itself through micro- and mega-budgets, recession and boom, we’ve hand-picked 100 of the greatest Sci-Fi quotes from film and television.
Have we forgotten any of your favourites? Let us know in the comments below, and visit us at Quotables to add your own and save your personal sci-fi quotes collection!
Silent Film Intertitles
1. For centuries we have been building a civilisation of Gold and Steel! What has it given us? Peace? Understanding? Happiness?
— Metropolis
2. As deep as the workmen’s city lay under ground, so high above it towered the Masterman Stadium - gift of John Masterman the richest man in Metropolis.
— Metropolis
3. We have created amazing machines … and used them to destroy our fellow men.
— Metropolis
4. Shall we come to a reality like this visioned city of the future?
— Metropolis
5. What shall it profit a man if he gain the world - and lose his soul?
— Metropolis
6. “Never” does not exist for the human mind… only “Not yet.”
— The Girl in the Moon
7. The creation of an evil mind is overcome by love and disappears.
— Frankenstein, 1910
8. [In the office of London Record Journal]
“I want your legal advice. Professor Challenger threatens to sue my paper for doubting his yarn about live dinosaurs.”
“I believe challenger is insane! He nearly killed three reporters I sent to interview him today!”
— The Lost World, 1925
9. Love is stronger than death, and longer than my life, which is forget to thy vengeance.
— She, 1925
10. Not knowing it could be the police bringing aid and thinking he was under attack, Saltarello defends himself by shooting!
— The Mechanical Man, 1920TV
(via oldfilmsflicker)
