Quotes About Apocalypse Now

#1. There's a story that during the filming of Apocalypse Now, Francis Ford Coppola had a sign on his trailer: Fast, Cheap, Good: Pick Two.

Maria Semple

#2. The war was won on both sides: by the Vietnamese on the ground, by the Americans in the electronic mental space. And if the one side won an ideological and political victory, the other made Apocalypse Now and that has gone right around the world.

Jean Baudrillard

#3. Dad almost died of a heart attack in the middle of making Apocalypse Now, the biggest movie of his life. It doesn't make you want to jump into that business.

Charlie Sheen

#4. Apocalypse is now a long-running serial: not "Apocalypse Now" but "Apocalypse From Now On.

Susan Sontag

#5. I love Apocalypse Now because it's a war movie, but yet it's not really a movie about war.

Vincent Paronnaud

#6. I love the smell of Chai Tea in the morning... (What should have been said in "Apocalypse Now")

Sakinaa Davies

#7. When I do a novel, I don't really use the script, I use the book; when I did Apocalypse Now, I used Heart of Darkness. Novels usually have so much rich material.

Francis Ford Coppola

#8. I grew up with Apocalypse Now and Badlands, so I had a real awe thing going.

Gary Cole

#9. Obviously if you're Coppola going into 'Apocalypse Now' off the back of the two 'Godfathers,' you're in a much better position than coming off the back of something like 'Dust Devil,' which had scarcely been released, and was pretty much lying around in film cans in different places.

Richard Stanley

#10. 'Apocalypse Now' does not alienate us or deconstruct itself. In fact, it welcomes us in.

James Gray

#11. The first half of Vietnam was fought to win the war, and the second half of Vietnam was soldiers going haywire without a mission, getting further and further towards our friend, Captain Kurtz and our friends at 'Apocalypse Now.'

Dylan Ratigan

#12. Coming Home had been made before and Apocalypse Now and Deer Hunter, different kinds of movies.

Oliver Stone

#13. The movie I've seen the most times, boy, that's a tough one. It would have to be a toss-up between Apocalypse Now and the first Star Wars. I think the first Star Wars.

David Crosby

#14. 'Apocalypse Now' poses questions without any attempt to provide definitive answers, and the film's profound ambiguities are integral to its enduring magic.

James Gray

#15. I'm a huge Coppola fan. But more of 'Apocalypse Now' and 'The Conversation.' 'The Godfather' for me is, like, number three or four on the list.

Anurag Kashyap

#16. I have heard the languages of apocalypse, and now I shall embrace the silence.

Neil Gaiman

#17. Thanks to Reagan, the insane now walk among us babbling about Starbucks and sodomite semen in this zombie apocalypse we call the 21st century.

St. Sukie De La Croix

#18. We penetrated deeper and deeper into the heart of darkness

Joseph Conrad

#19. I didn't smoke often, and had never smoked before the apocalypse, but now I had more pressing health issues to worry about.

Andrew Cormier

#20. Hey, I've been alive for a very, very long time. Boring," she sang out. "Gotta do something for kicks, and a good apocalypse every now and then fills the cracks. It's like the Super Bowl for us gods ... but without the beer and everyone could die. Fun, right?

Mimi Jean Pamfiloff

#21. Holy shit." Rehv shook his head and muttered, "Now we know what the zombie apocalypse looks like.

J.R. Ward

#22. I used to be Autumn Winters, daughter of an actress and an architect. I had been one of three living in this home, but now I was just Autumn Winters, and I was alone.

Kirby Howell

#23. The mind of man is capable of anything.

Joseph Conrad

#24. That's where all of us are standing now, he thought. On the fat kindling of past sins.

Walter M. Miller Jr.

#25. It is understandable, therefore, that the movement to stop global warming has taken on the feel of a religion. The core belief is that humankind inherited a pristine Eden, has sinned greatly by polluting it, and must now suffer lest we all perish in a fiery apocalypse.

Steven D. Levitt

#26. The guns reminded me that this was just an attempt to punch holes in the darkness that enveloped us now.

Michael Poeltl

#27. I'm so bitter right now that if the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse showed up I'd give them directions.

Whiskey Britches

#28. Holy shit. Rowen Sterling. Glowing. Married. I suppose now's the time to start packing our bags for the apocalypse."
Jesse slugged my arm. Rowen got the other. "Holy shit. Garth Black. Present. Accounted for. Sober. Quick, no time to pack your bags for the apocalypse because it's here.

Nicole Williams

#29. I learned the Norse gods came with their own doomsday: Ragnarok, the twilight of the gods, the end of it all. The gods were going to battle the frost giants, and they were all going to die.

Had Ragnarok happened yet? Was it still to happen? I did not know then. I am not certain now.

Neil Gaiman

#30. God exists. He has one wicked since of humor, and right now he's having a grand old time punking the planet.

Forrest Carr

#31. Now in my middle fifties, an irrelevant codger, I find it discomfiting to see this generation dancing to the music of apocalypse and carrying their psychic burdens in front of them like infants in arms.

Julie Schumacher

#32. If I have to face the end of human existence, I want to look totally smoking when it happens. Now shut the hell up.

Angeline Trevena

#33. The world had seen so many Ages: the Age of Enlightenment; of Reformation; of Reason. Now, at last, the Age of Desire. And after this, an end to Ages; an end, perhaps, to everything.

Clive Barker

#34. I never used to run before this, never wanted to and never had the time to. Now, I run nearly every day.

Patricia Hamill

#35. I took a moment to savor the sensation of impending disastor before telling it to get lost.
"Things are pretty messed up right about now," I began. "What started as a weird phenomenon, something rare, is quickly building into what we might affectionately call 'the Apocalypse.

Lia Habel

#36. Dean, you've been to Hell, I started the Apocalypse, and we're supposed to be possessed by an archangel and the devil. Now you're being skeptical?

Keith R.A. DeCandido

#37. Alex: "You asked earlier why us humans fear death. I suppose it is the unknown - not knowing what awaits on the other side. But now I know, and I still fear it."
The Darkness: "?"
Alex: "But now I fear the living - in fact, I now fear life more than death!

Scott Beadle

#38. Come now, I was not about to let that thing eat you.

Stacy Buck

#39. I think that the Apocalypse is going to be in this new way of thinking. Somewhere between now and 2020, there has got to be a break though. Not just in science, we've done that, but a breakthrough in the human mind.

Dolores Ashcroft-Nowicki

#40. No more running, no more half living, starving or fear. You have it better than me now, I think.

Patricia Hamill

#41. Now I am become death, the destroyer of worlds. (quoting the Bhagavad-Gita after witnessing the first Nuclear explosion.)

J. Robert Oppenheimer

#42. Thank you, Deke. You are very good to me." "I know," he smirks. "Can I get back in your bed now?

Alison Kemper

#43. You got what you deserved. Now be a man and confess to what most of us already know.

Stacy Buck

#44. Plus, I wondered if any of these celebrities were alive; or if Brangelina was now a zombified couple.

Shannon Jaeger