There's only one drummer. We all travel to his beat. Well, I couldn't sing his song. Because for me, it wasn't a truthful statement. Well, Linda sang it, and it was a monster for her.
Hollis: Don't be a monster, Howard. Tell the poor girl. You can have him, sweetie. You did.
Dolores Fuller: [arriving for her scenes in "Bride of the Monster"] Well, I see the usual cast of misfits and dope addicts are here.
Randall: Say hello to the Scream Extractor. Mike: Hello. Hey, where are you going? C'mon, we'll talk! We'll have a latte!
[from teaser trailer] Mike: Oh, that's great, blame it on the little guy. How original. He must've read the schedule wrong with his one eye.
[Mike complains to Sulley about Randall] Mike: One of these days I am really... going to let you teach that guy a lesson.
Yeti: You wanna go to the village? Okay, rule number one out here: Always... no, Never go out in a blizzard.
Mike: Sulley, what are we doing? Sulley: We have to get Boo's door and find a station. Mike: What a plan. Simple, yet insane.
Mike: On my desk, Sulley. The pink copies go to Accounting, the fuchshia ones go to Purchasing, and the goldenrod ones go to Roz. Leave the puce.
Verbal: [to Kujan] If I told you the Loch Ness monster hired me to hit the harbor, what would you say?
[following Igor's botched attempt to interpret Dr. Frankenstein's charade clues while being attacked by the monster] Dr. Frederick Frankenstein: SEDA-GIVE?
Marching thus at night, a battalion is doubly impressive. The silent monster is full of restrained power; resolute in its onward sweep, impervious to danger, it looks a menacing engine of destruction, steady to its goal, and certain of its mission.
When you look at golf films before us they're all - garbage or satire. A lot of sports films tend to vilify the opposition. Where the opposition becomes this big angry monster, so big you can't beat him.
Nearly all monster stories depend for their success on Jack killing the Giant, Beowulf or St. George slaying the Dragon, Harry Potter triumphing over the basilisk. That is their inner grammar, and the whole shape of the story leads towards it.
I love gothic monsters, but I like to root them more firmly in the traditional folklore from which they sprang. Or at least, I like to evoke the feeling of those folk stories.
Really interesting genre films, especially monster movies, evoke the fears of the times intentionally. Our starting point was 'Godzilla' - the original movie was released less than 10 years after Hiroshima, and it's a classic in Japan.
Steve Rogers: What kind of monster would let a German scientist experiment on them in order to protect their country?
Villagers: [singing] We don't like what we don't understand, in fact it scares us, and this monster is mysterious at least...
I can begin to understand how anchor monsters are made. If you're not careful, you can become used to being treated as though you're special and begin to expect it.
There often is a dark secret in books... There is often a gathering sense of dread; there's a gap sometimes in the text from which all kinds of monsters can emerge.
Really, Mexico City has always been this big, complex monster of a city that has always had real problems and needs, and I've always found my way through it in different ways.
