Cube (1997)

Nicky Guadagni: Holloway

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Quotes 

• Holloway : It's all the same machine, right? The Pentagon, multinational corporations, the police. If you do one little job, you build a widget in Saskatoon, and the next thing you know, it's two miles under the desert, the essential component of a death machine. I was right! All along, my whole life, I knew it! I told you, Quentin. Nobody's ever going to call me paranoid again! We've gotta get out of here and blow the lid off this thing!

  Worth : Holloway, you don't get it.

  Holloway : Then help me, please. I need to know!

  Worth : This may be hard for you to understand, but there is no conspiracy. Nobody is in charge. It, it's a headless blunder operating under the illusion of a master plan. Can you grasp that? Big Brother is not watching you.

• Holloway : You've got a gift.

  Leaven : It's not a gift. It's just a brain.

• Quentin : Why don't you tell us what your purpose is, Worth?

  Worth : Often wondered that myself. I'm just a guy, I work in an office building doing office building stuff. I wasn't exactly bursting with joie de vivre before I got here, life just sucks in general.

  Holloway : Oh I can't stand that attitude.

  Leaven : 'Cos he's right.

• Holloway : [after Rennes is killed]  I think we *have* to ask the big questions! What does it want? What is it thinking?

  Worth : "One down, four to go."

• [Quentin and Holloway are discussing who could have made the cube] 

  Quentin : This place is... remember Scaramanga? The bad guy in "The Man With The Golden Gun?" It's some rich psycho's entertainment

  Holloway : [laughs]  Is that what you think?

• Holloway : What have we come to? It's so much worse than I thought.

  Worth : Not really. Just more pathetic.

• Holloway : Only the government could build something this ugly.

• Quentin : Listen, we can't go climbing around in here.

  Holloway : Why not?

  Quentin : There's traps.

  Holloway : What do you mean traps?

  Quentin : Booby traps. I looked in the room down there, and something almost cut my head off.

• Quentin : Start with us. We got an escape artist and a cop. There's gotta be a reason for that. You're a doctor, Holloway. That gives you a function, a reason, right?

  Holloway : No! It just makes me go, "Why me and not one of the other ten million doctors out there?"

• Holloway : They may have taken our lives away, but we're still human beings. That's all we've got left.

• Holloway : It's like Chile. They always come in the middle of the night.