Videodrome Quotes

Videodrome is a TV program that appeared on TV in 1970 . Videodrome ended its run in 1970.

It features Claude Héroux, Pierre David, and Victor Solnicki as producer, Howard Shore in charge of musical score, and Mark Irwin as head of cinematography.

Videodrome is recorded in English and originally aired in Canada. Each episode of Videodrome is 89 minutes long. Videodrome is distributed by Universal Pictures.

The cast includes: James Woods as Max Renn, Jack Creley as Brian O'Blivion, Lally Cadeau as Rena King, Debbie Harry as Nicki Brand, Lynne Gorman as Masha, Leslie Carlson as Barry Convex, Peter Dvorsky as Harlan, and Sonja Smits as Bianca O'Blivion.

Videodrome Quotes

Jack Creley as Brian O'Blivion

• (Jack Creley) "Television is reality, and reality is less than television."

• (Jack Creley) "I believe that the growth in my head-this head-this one right here. I think that it is not really a tumor -- not an uncontrolled, undirected little bubbling pot of flesh -- but that it is in fact a new organ -- a new part of the brain."

• (Jack Creley) "After a while, I started hallucinating, and developed a tumor. I believe the visions caused the tumor, and not the other way around."

• (Jack Creley) "The battle for the mind of North America will be fought in the video arena: the Videodrome. The television screen is the retina of the mind's eye. Therefore, the television screen is part of the physical structure of the brain. Therefore, whatever appears on the television screen emerges as raw experience for those who watch it. Therefore, television is reality, and reality is less than television."

• (Jack Creley) "After all, there is nothing real outside our perception of reality, is there?"

• (Jack Creley) "The television screen is the retina of the mind's eye."

• (Jack Creley) "Max, I'm so glad you came."

• (Jack Creley) "Your reality is already HALF video hallucination. If you're not careful, it will become TOTAL hallucination. You'll have to learn to live in a very strange new world."

Lally Cadeau as Rena King

• (Lally Cadeau) "What about it, Nicki? Is it socially positive?"
• (Debbie Harry) "Well, I think we live in overstimulated times. We crave stimulation for its own sake. We gorge ourselves on it. We always want more, whether it's tactile, emotional or sexual. And I think that's bad."
• (James Woods) "Then why did you wear that dress?"
• (Debbie Harry) "Sorry?"
• (James Woods) "That dress. It's very stimulating."
• (James Woods) "And it's red. You know what Freud would've said about that dress."
• (Debbie Harry) "And he would've been right. I admit it. I live in a highly excited state of overstimulation."
• (James Woods) "Listen, I'd really like to take you out to dinner tonight --"

James Woods as Max Renn

• (James Woods) "See you in Pittsburgh."

• (James Woods) "I want you to stay away from it. Those mondo weirdo video guys, they've got unsavory connections, they play rough. Rougher than even Nicki Brand wants to play -- You know, in Brazil, Central America, those kinds of places, making underground videos is considered a subversive act. They execute people for it. In Pittsburgh, who knows?"

• (James Woods) "I am the Video Word made Flesh."

• (James Woods) "If he does, that's going to make conversation a little difficult."
• (Sonja Smits) "My father has not engaged in conversation for at least twenty years. The monologue is his preferred mode of discourse."

• (James Woods) "Have you been hallucinating lately?"
• (Peter Dvorsky) "No. Should I be?"
• (James Woods) "Yes, you should be."

• (James Woods) "What's that? You let someone cut you?"
• (Debbie Harry) "Yeah, what do you think?"
• (James Woods) "Well, I don't know."
• (Debbie Harry) "Would you like to try a few things?"

• (James Woods) "D'you want a cup of coffee?"

• (James Woods) "Better on T.V. than on the streets."

• (James Woods) "Long live the new flesh."

• (James Woods) "Tell me about my 'Videodrome' problem."
• (Sonja Smits) "My father knows much more about it than I do."
• (Sonja Smits) "Listen to him."

• (James Woods) "Death to Videodrome. Long live the new flesh."

• (James Woods) "Careful -- it bites."

• (James Woods) "Do you know a show called 'Videodrome'?"
• (Lynne Gorman) "Video what?"
• (James Woods) "Videodrome. Like video circus, video arena. Do you know it?"
• (Lynne Gorman) "No."
• (James Woods) "It's just torture and murder. No plot, no characters. Very, very realistic. I think it's what's next."
• (Lynne Gorman) "Then God help us."

• (James Woods) "I'm looking for something that'll -- break through. You know?"

Debbie Harry as Nicki Brand

• (Debbie Harry) "Got any porno?"
• (James Woods) "You serious?"
• (Debbie Harry) "Yeah. It gets me in the mood."
• (Debbie Harry) "What's this? "Videodrome"?"
• (James Woods) "Torture. Murder."
• (Debbie Harry) "Sounds great."
• (James Woods) "Ain't exactly sex."
• (Debbie Harry) "Says who?"

• (Debbie Harry) "I live in a highly excited state of overstimulation."

Peter Dvorsky as Harlan

• (Peter Dvorsky) "I don't work with you for the money."
• (James Woods) "I know that. 'Cause piracy's never just for the money, is it?"

Leslie Carlson as Barry Convex

• (Leslie Carlson) "I think that you'll find a little S&M; will be necessary to trigger off a good healthy dose of hallucinations."

• (Leslie Carlson) "Open up for me, Max. I've got something I want to play for you."

Lynne Gorman as Masha

• (Lynne Gorman) "Videodrome is something for you to leave alone."

• (Lynne Gorman) "Videodrome. What you see on that show, it's for real. It's not acting. It's snuff TV."
• (James Woods) "I don't believe it."
• (Lynne Gorman) "So, don't believe."
• (James Woods) "Why do it for real? It's easier and safer to fake it."
• (Lynne Gorman) "Because it has something that you don't have, Max. It has a philosophy. And that is what makes it dangerous."

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