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of All Time by the Writer's Guild of America |
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of All Time by the Writer's Guild of America (part 3, by reverse ranking) |
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Film Title (Year and Director) |
Scriptwriter(s) and Original or Adapted Source Material | Memorable Line of Dialogue
(Performer/Film Character) |
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The Sixth Sense (1999; dir. M. Night Shyamalan) |
Written by M. Night Shyamalan | "I see dead people." — Haley Joel Osment as Cole Sear |
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Schindler’s List (1993; dir. Steven Spielberg) |
Screenplay by Steven Zaillian, based on the novel by Thomas Keneally | "I pardon you." — Ralph Fiennes as Amon Goeth |
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The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957; dir. David Lean) |
Screenplay by Carl Foreman and
Michael Wilson, based on the novel by Pierre Boulle |
"What have I done?" — Alec Guinness as Colonel Nicholson |
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The Maltese Falcon (1941; dir. John Huston) |
Screenplay by John Huston, based
on the novel by Dashiell Hammett |
"When you’re slapped,
you’ll take it and like it." — Humphrey Bogart as Sam Spade |
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The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948; dir. John Huston) |
Screenplay by John Huston, based on the novel by B. Traven | "Badges? We ain't got no
badges. We don't need no badges." — Alfonso Bedoya as Gold Hat |
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One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (1975; dir. Milos Forman) |
Screenplay by Lawrence Hauben and Bo Goldman, based on the novel by Ken Kesey | "Get out of my way son,
you're using my oxygen. You know what I mean?" — Jack Nicholson as Randall Patrick Murphy |
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The Best Years of Our Lives (1946; dir. William Wyler) |
Screenplay by Robert E. Sherwood, based on novel "Glory For Me" by MacKinlay Kantor | "They couldn't train him
to put his arms around his girl, or to stroke her hair." — Fredric March as Al Stephenson |
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Taxi Driver (1976; dir. Martin Scorsese) |
Written by Paul Schrader | "You talkin’ to me?" — Robert De Niro as Travis Bickle |
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Raiders
of the Lost Ark (1981; dir. Steven Spielberg) |
Screenplay by Lawrence Kasdan, story by George Lucas and Philip Kaufman | "I hate snakes." — Harrison Ford as Indiana Jones |
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GoodFellas (1990; dir. Martin Scorsese) |
Screenplay by Nicholas Pileggi & Martin Scorsese, based on book "Wise Guy" by Nicholas Pileggi | "Never rat on your friends
and always keep your mouth shut." — Robert De Niro as Jimmy Conway |
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When
Harry Met Sally… (1989; dir. Rob Reiner) |
Written by Nora Ephron | "I’ll have what she’s
having." — Estelle Reiner as the woman in the deli |
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The Sting (1973; dir. George Roy Hill) |
Written by David S. Ward | "No sense in being a grifter
if it's the same as being a citizen." — Paul Newman as Henry Gondorff |
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American Beauty (1999; dir. Sam Mendes) |
Written by Alan Ball | "I’m just an ordinary
guy with nothing to lose." — Kevin Spacey as Lester Burnham |
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The Philadelphia Story (1940; dir. George Cukor) |
Screenplay by Donald Ogden Stewart, based on the play by Philip Barry | "I'm going crazy. I'm standing
here, solidly on my own two hands and going crazy." — Katharine Hepburn as Tracy Lord |
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Midnight Cowboy (1969; dir. John Schlesinger) |
Screenplay by Waldo Salt, based on the novel by James Leo Herlihy | "I’m walkin’
here!" — Dustin Hoffman as Ratso Rizzo |
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The Usual Suspects (1995; dir. Bryan Singer) |
Written by Christopher McQuarrie | "The greatest trick the
devil ever pulled was convincing the world that he didn't exist." — Kevin Spacey as Verbal Kint |
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The
Sweet Smell of Success (1957; dir. Alexander Mackendrick) |
Screenplay by Clifford Odets and Ernest Lehman, from a novelette by Ernest Lehman | "Watch me run a 50-yard
dash with my legs cut off!" — Tony Curtis as Sidney Falco |
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The Third Man (1949; dir. Carol Reed) |
Screenplay by Graham Greene, story by Graham Greene, based on the short story by Graham Greene | "In Italy for 30 years
under the Borgias, they had warfare, terror, murder and bloodshed. But
they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci and the Renaissance. In
Switzerland, they had brotherly love. They had 500 years of democracy
and peace. And what did that produce? The cuckoo clock!" — Orson Welles as Harry Lime |
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Fargo (1996; dir. Joel Coen) |
Written by Joel Coen & Ethan Coen | "I'm not sure I agree with
you a hundred percent on your police work there, Lou.'' — Frances McDormand as Marge Gunderson |
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His Girl Friday (1940: dir. Howard Hawks) |
Screenplay by Charles Lederer, based on the play "The Front Page" by Ben Hecht & Charles MacArthur | "Who’s going to read
the second paragraph?" — Cary Grant as Walter Burns |
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Unforgiven (1992: dir. Clint Eastwood) |
Written by David Webb Peoples | "It's a hell of a thing
killin' a man. You take away all he's got and all he's ever gonna have." — Clint Eastwood as Bill Munny |
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Sullivan’s Travels (1941; dir. Preston Sturges) |
Written by Preston Sturges | "There's always a girl
in the picture. What's the matter? Don't you go to the movies?" — Joel McCrea as John L. Sullivan |
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Shakespeare In Love (1998; dir. John Madden) |
Written by Marc Norman and Tom Stoppard | "Romeo and Juliet. Just
a suggestion." — Ben Affleck as Ned Alleyn |
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Groundhog Day (1993; dir. Harold Ramis) |
Screenplay by Danny Rubin and Harold Ramis, story by Danny Rubin | "What if there is no tomorrow?
There wasn’t one today." — Bill Murray as Phil Connors |
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Double Indemnity (1944; dir. Billy Wilder) |
Screenplay by Billy Wilder and Raymond Chandler, based on the novel by James M. Cain | "Do I laugh now or wait
until it gets funny?" — Fred MacMurray as Walter Neff |
