Liquid Sky (1982)

Bob Brady: Owen

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• Owen : I seem to remember, when we were at, um, Cambridge, there was a war, I think it was between the, uh, they were called, uh, mods and rockers, and they - they went at each other with bicycle chains. I don't think your punks need help from the outside to kill themselves.

• Owen : All your costumes are just participation in some kind of phoney theater. I'm only telling you this for your own good. It's a freak show.

  Margaret : Oh, are you trying to say that your blue jeans weren't theater?

  Owen : It's not the same thing.

  Margaret : So your professor wore a three-piece suit and blamed you for your jeans. And your jeans were "too much." And he didn't understand that his suit was also a costume. You thought your jeans stood for love, freedom and sexual equality; we at least know that we're in costume.

• Owen : At the turn of the century heroin was available at every corner drugstore. Any housewife could get some for a headache.

  Katherine : I am not a turn of the century housewife and I don't want heroin in my house.

• Margaret : That's the only thing I care about, my career. What do you think I'm doing right now? I'm getting ready to shoot with a professional photographer who I met at the club, who's gonna come here...

  Owen : Wally wants to go to bed with you.

  Margaret : Nobody - nobody fucks at the club, everybody's gay! It's you that thinks about fucking all the time.

  Owen : Your vocabulary is punctuated by two words: "shit" and "fuck."

• Katherine : Cocteau was Cocteau before he ever did... drugs.

  Owen : What are you saying?

  Katherine : That's it's not going to help you.

• Johann : In the beginning, aliens where spotted near places with large amounts of heroin. Later aliens appeared in specific subcultures, punk circles, still around heroin. And in this punk circles many more strange deaths have occurred.

  Owen : What's so strange about death in punk circles?

  Owen : They kill each other by shooting too much dope.