“- Dwight 'Bucky' Bleichert: I don't get modern art.
- Madeleine Linscott: I doubt modern art gets you, either.”
Josh Hartnett - Dwight 'Bucky' Bleichert
Hilary Swank - Madeleine Linscott

“In this modern complicated world, man breaks down under the strain, the bewilderment, disappointment, and disillusionment. He gets lost, goes crazy, commits suicide.”

Claude Rains - Dr. Alexander Tower

“Modern man is so confused, Raymond. Finally, it's much better to work in the theater... than in a mine.”

Jerzy Skolimowski - Colonel Chaiko

“Modern cars: they all look like electric shavers.”
Mickey Rourke - Marv

“You despise someone like me because you despise the modern. But you are at the very forefront of what is modern. You write about it, you document it... Unlike you, though, I have chosen to embrace it.”

Sir Ian Holm - Doctor Murnau