Existenz Quotes

Existenz is a television show that appeared on TV in 1970 . Existenz ended its run in 1970.

It features David Cronenberg, András Hámori, and Robert Lantos as producer, Howard Shore in charge of musical score, and Peter Suschitzky as head of cinematography.

Existenz is recorded in English and originally aired in Canada, United Kingdom, and France. Each episode of Existenz is 97 minutes long. Existenz is distributed by Miramax Films, Momentum Pictures, and Alliance Atlantis.

The cast includes: Jennifer Jason Leigh as Allegra, Jude Law as Ted, Oscar Hsu as Chinese Waiter, Willem Dafoe as Gas, Don McKellar as Yevgeny Nourish, and Ian Holm as Kiri Vinokur.

Existenz Quotes

Jennifer Jason Leigh as Allegra

• (Jennifer Jason Leigh) "You have to PLAY the game, to find out WHY you're playing the game."

• (Jennifer Jason Leigh) "What the hell was that?"
• (Jude Law) "That wasn't me. That was my game character. I wouldn't have done that. Not here anyway."
• (Jennifer Jason Leigh) "Our characters are obviously supposed to jump on each other. It's probably a pathetically mechanical attempt to heighten the emotional tension of the next game sequence. No use fighting it."

• (Jennifer Jason Leigh) "The only way I can tell if everything is OK is to play eXistenZ with somebody friendly. Are you friendly, or are you not?"

• (Jennifer Jason Leigh) "Pikul, what are you doing?"
• (Jude Law) "I don't know. I find this disgusting but I can't help myself."
• (Jennifer Jason Leigh) "Good."
• (Jude Law) "Good? You think this is good?"
• (Jennifer Jason Leigh) "Yeah. It's a genuine game urge. It's something your character was born to do. Don't fight it."
• (Jude Law) "I'm fighting it but it isn't doing me any good."

• (Jennifer Jason Leigh) "Oh God."
• (Jude Law) "What happened?"
• (Jennifer Jason Leigh) "The whole pod just disappeared into your back."
• (Jude Law) "It disappeared into my back? It's in my spine? It's working its way around my spinal cord?"
• (Jennifer Jason Leigh) "Don't panic, it's just a game."

• (Jennifer Jason Leigh) "I suppose a smaller-caliber pistol would have to fire baby teeth."

• (Jennifer Jason Leigh) "So how does it feel?"
• (Jude Law) "What?"
• (Jennifer Jason Leigh) "Your real life. The one you came back for."
• (Jude Law) "It feels completely unreal."
• (Jennifer Jason Leigh) "You're stuck now, aren't ya? You want to go back to the Chinese restaurant because there's nothing happening here. We're safe. It's boring."
• (Jude Law) "It's worse than that. I'm not sure -- I'm not sure here, where we are, is real at all. This feels like a game to me. And you, you're beginning to feel a bit like a game character."

Willem Dafoe as Gas

• (Willem Dafoe) "God; the mechanic."

Jude Law as Ted

• (Jude Law) "It hurts. I think it's infected."
• (Jennifer Jason Leigh) "No, it's not infected. It's just excited. It wants action."
• (Jude Law) "But I really don't think I want action. Me, I mean. The bearer of the excited bio-port."

• (Jude Law) "It was no accident you and I ended up on the run together."
• (Jennifer Jason Leigh) "Not an accident?"
• (Jude Law) "No."
• (Jennifer Jason Leigh) "That's why you never had a bio-port. You were one of them."
• (Jude Law) "I still am one of them."
• (Jennifer Jason Leigh) "But you have a bio-port now."
• (Jude Law) "I made the bio-port sacrifice to get close to you."
• (Jennifer Jason Leigh) "Why would you want to do that?"
• (Jude Law) "To understand what I have to kill."
• (Jennifer Jason Leigh) "Then understand this. Understand that I knew you were my real assassin when you pointed that gun at me in the Chinese restaurant. And understand that you're dead. Death to the demon Ted Pikul. Have I won? Have I won the game? Have I won?"

• (Jude Law) "We're both stumbling around together in this unformed world, whose rules and objectives are largely unknown, seemingly indecipherable or even possibly nonexistent, always on the verge of being killed by forces that we don't understand."
• (Jennifer Jason Leigh) "That sounds like my game, all right."
• (Jude Law) "That sounds like a game that's not gonna be easy to market."
• (Jennifer Jason Leigh) "But it's a game everybody's already playing."

• (Jude Law) "I want to put the game on pause. The game can be paused, can't it? I mean, all games can be paused, right?"
• (Jennifer Jason Leigh) "Yeah, sure. But why? What's wrong? Aren't you dying to see what's so special about the special?"
• (Jude Law) "I'm feeling a little disconnected from my real life. I'm kinda losing touch with the texture of it. You know what I mean? I actually think there is an element of psychosis involved here."

• (Jude Law) "What the f*** are you doing? You killed him. Are you going to kill me next?"
• (Jennifer Jason Leigh) "Pikul, he was only a game character. I didn't like how he was messing with my mind."
• (Jude Law) "You didn't like that, so you killed him?"
• (Jennifer Jason Leigh) "He's only a game character."
• (Jude Law) "Allegra, what if we're not in the game anymore?"
• (Jennifer Jason Leigh) "If we're not."
• (Jude Law) "If we're not then you just killed someone real."

• (Jude Law) "It's none of your business who sent us. We're here and that is all that matters -- God, what happened? I didn't mean to say that."
• (Jennifer Jason Leigh) "It's your character who said it. It's kind of a schizophrenic feeling, isn't it? You'll get used to it. There are things that have to be said to advance the plot and establish the characters, and those things get said whether you want to say them or not. Don't fight it."

• (Jude Law) "What happens if someone comes up here and really wants to ski?"
• (Jennifer Jason Leigh) "Come on Pikul. No one actually "skis" anymore, you know that."

• (Jude Law) "Death to the demoness, Allegra Geller."
• (Jennifer Jason Leigh) "That's not funny."
• (Jude Law) "Sorry."
• (Jude Law) "But you know, I do feel the urge to kill someone here."
• (Jennifer Jason Leigh) "Who?"
• (Jude Law) "I need to kill our waiter."
• (Jennifer Jason Leigh) "Oh. Well that makes sense. Um, waiter. Waiter."
• (Jennifer Jason Leigh) "When he comes over, do it. Don't hesitate."
• (Jude Law) "But -- everything in the game is so realistic, I-I don't think I really could."
• (Jennifer Jason Leigh) "You won't be able to stop yourself. You might as well enjoy it."
• (Jude Law) "Free will -- is obviously not a big factor in this little world of ours."
• (Jennifer Jason Leigh) "It's like real life. There's just enough to make it interesting."
• (Jude Law) "He's too nice. I won't do it."
• (Oscar Hsu) "What can I do to make your lunch more pleasant?"
• (Jude Law) "I found this in my soup."
• (Jude Law) "And I'm very upset."

• (Jude Law) "What was your life like before?"
• (Willem Dafoe) "Before?"
• (Jude Law) "Before it was changed by Allegra Geller."
• (Willem Dafoe) "I operated a gas station."
• (Jude Law) "You still operate a gas station, don't you?"
• (Willem Dafoe) "Only on the most pathetic level of reality."

• (Jude Law) "I have this phobia about having my body penetrated surgically. You know what I mean?"

• (Jude Law) "Free will is obviously not a big factor in this little world of ours."
• (Jennifer Jason Leigh) "It's like real life. There's just enough to make it interesting."

• (Jude Law) "I actually think there's an element of psychosis involved here."

Don McKellar as Yevgeny Nourish

• (Don McKellar) "Trying to remember who you are?"

• (Don McKellar) "Arrrgh. Bugs. No. No, spores. Deadly spores."

• (Don McKellar) "You might be new but you seem to know what you're doing."
• (Jude Law) "It surprises me more than it surprises you."
• (Don McKellar) "You might be new but you seem to know what you're doing."

• (Don McKellar) "And you, you are new to Trout Farm?"
• (Jude Law) "Yeah -- yes I'm -- I'm very new. Did you say Trout Farm?"

Ian Holm as Kiri Vinokur

• (Ian Holm) "You know, my accent in the game was so thick that I could hardly understand myself."

Oscar Hsu as Chinese Waiter

• (Oscar Hsu) "Hey, tell me the truth -- are we still in the game?"

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