Cecil B. Demented (2000)

Stephen Dorff: Cecil B. Demented

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Quotes 

• Cherish : All my directors fuck me.

  Cecil : I am not all your directors! I am Cecil B. Demented!

• Cecil : Technique is nothing more than failed style.

• Fidget : No! I want to go home! I don't want to be in show business anymore!

  Cecil : I knew you were the weak one, Fidget. Just remember, your parents liked Godzilla.

  Lyle : They wouldn't even let you see R-rated films as a child.

  Dinah : They've never even been to a midnight movie.

  Chardonnay : They enjoy classic TV sitcoms turned into feature length films.

  Cherish : They've never rented a porno movie.

  Cecil : And to top it all off, they talk out loud in the theatre once the feature has begun.

  Honey : Oh, that really is unforgivable, Fidget.

  Fidget : Okay, okay! My parents are the enemies of film!

• Cecil : I'm Cecil B. Demented, and you're in my movie. Do not look into the lens and ruin the shot or you will be shot.

• Cecil : There are no rules in underground cinema, only edges.

• Cecil : Power to the people who punish bad cinema!

• Cecil : Demented forever!

• Cecil : Celibacy for celluloid!

• Cecil : I'm a prophet against profit!

• Cecil : Death to mainstream cinema!

• Honey : No! Please let me go! I promise I won't tell anyone about your little movie!

  Cecil : Little?

  Honey : I didn't mean, you know, *little*. I meant, you know, low-budget... ly cult.

• Candy counter girl : Do you know Quentin Tarantino? I love his movies!

  Cecil : No adlibbing!

  [fires gun] 

• Cecil : No one gets laid until we've finished our movie. We're horny, but our film comes first!

• Cherish : We can fuck now?

  Cecil : From here to Timbuktu!

• Honey : Cherish, this is America, you know. It's a free country. People can make bad movies if they so desire.

  Cecil : Not anymore they don't!

  Cherish : You think just cause you've made "real" movies you're better than me, don't you?

  Honey : Oh, please.

  Cherish : Do you know why I became a porno star?

  [everyone in van groans] 

  Cecil : Cherish has recovered memory.

  Cherish : When I was ten years old, my entire family fucked me under the Christmas tree.

  Honey : I'm so sorry.

  Cherish : Yeah, I bet you are... "jingle balls, jingle balls" my stupid brother started singing.

  Honey : [laughs] 

  Cherish : You think that's funny?

  Honey : [still laughing]  No, I don't.

  Cecil : That's all behind you now, Cherish. We're here, and we're makin' movies.

• Cecil : Continue eating the oysters or you will be shot and killed!

• Cecil : I am Cecil B. Demented! And this is a fucking kidnapping!

• Cecil : [the camera operator has just been shot]  Principal photography has been completed!

• Cecil : I have a vision!

• Cecil : Action Fans! Help us!

• Cecil : How's this for motivated, huh?

• Cecil : Do you see the pain your performance is causing me? Huh?

  Honey : Okay, yes I do. F... fine, uhm, I'll do it. Okay? Let's just shoot it.