Close Encounters Quotes

#1. 'Close Encounters of the Third Kind' is the best movie for a guy like me. A cerebral adventure. A moving story. A bunch of little green men.

Tom DeLonge

#2. 'Alien' is a great movie. So is 'Close Encounters.' But I'm not the guy who goes out to the science-fiction festival. '2001's good.

David Duchovny

#3. I'm not encouraged by the silence. I can think of no benign reason for it. I'm afraid we may expect something closer to Christopher Columbus's arrival in the Americas than a scene from Close Encounters, and we all know how that turned out for the Native Americans.

Rick Yancey

#4. The idea of close encounters of the zero'th kind - which is to say, not a close encounter at all, but simply uncovering evidence that someone's out there - dates back to the Victorian era.

Seth Shostak

#5. I am a geek in terms of, I love 'Close Encounters' and I love 'Star Wars,' but other things ... 'Doctor Who,' I don't really care about at all, I couldn't give a fig about it.

Nick Frost

#6. Stephen Hawking's been watching too many Hollywood movies. I think the only kind aliens in Hollywood are the ones created by Steven Spielberg - 'Close Encounters of the Third Kind' and 'E.T.,' for example. All other aliens are trying to suck our brains out.

Neil DeGrasse Tyson

#7. 'Close Encounters of the Third Kind.' Big, big, big smash for me. My birth of the love of cinema was born with 'Close Encounters' and '2001.' Those sci-fi movies I saw when I was a little kid.

Denis Villeneuve

#8. I think some of the special effects in Close Encounters hold up better than the new more expensive special effects is because they were better actually.

Bob Balaban

#9. That's the harm of Close Encounters: that it convinces tens of millions that that's what just science fiction is.

Isaac Asimov

#10. I loved being in Close Encounters, just to watch Steven Spielberg working was exciting.

Bob Balaban

#11. Close encounters are bad. Bad for the animal, as it causes stress, and bad for me for exactly the same reason.

Nigel Dennis

#12. I'm afraid we may expect something closer to Christopher Columbus's arrival in the Americas than a scene from Close Encounters, and we all know how that

Rick Yancey

#13. My favorite sci-fi movie of all time is 'Close Encounters of the Third Kind.'

Jim Parsons

#14. 'Close Encounters of the Third Kind' ends with the spaceship lands and Richard Dreyfuss' character best on, but a bunch of pilots and sailors from the 1940s get off. You kind of wanted to know what happened next.

Jonathan Nolan

#15. No movie can be a downer that fills you with pure exhilaration. You leave WALL-E with a feeling of the rarest kind: that you've just enjoyed a close encounter with an enduring classic.

Peter Travers

#16. I have had, in the course of my life, lots of encounters and lots of serious people. I have spent lots of time with grown-ups. I have seen them at close range ... which haven't much improved my opinion of them.

Antoine De Saint-Exupery

#17. To fight evil, you have to understand the dark.

Nalini Singh

#18. Sometimes you can have a whole lifetime in a day and never notice that this is a beautiful as it gets.

Robin Williams

#19. Relationships with negative people are simply tedious encounters with porcupines. You don't have the remote knowledge how to be close to them without quills being shot in your direction.

Shannon L. Alder

#20. A crisis is a close encounter of the third kind.

Guy Finley

#21. Upon himself; horror and doubt distract His troubl'd thoughts, and from the bottom stirr The Hell within him, for within him Hell He brings, and round about him, nor from Hell One step no more then from himself can fly By

John Milton

#22. The amelioration of jagged potencies is really the second center.

Nathan Coppedge

#23. Capitalism is the greatest system ever created for alleviating general human misery, and yet it breeds ingratitude.

Jonah Goldberg