I Am Legend (2007) - Quotes

Exploring Self in Isolation

Quotes about I Am Legend: It was such a wonderful exploration of myself. What happens is that you get in a situation where you don’t have people to create the stimulus for you to respond to. What happens is that you start creating the stimulus and the response. There is a connection with yourself, where your mind starts to drift so, in those types of situations, that you learn about yourself things you would never even imagination.

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Empty Streets of New York City

Quotes about I Am Legend: We shut down six blocks of Fifth Avenue on a Monday morning. That was probably poor logistics, which was poor planning. You realize that you have never actually seen an empty shot of New York. When we were doing it, it’s chilling to walk down the middle of Fifth Avenue. There is never an opportunity to walk down the middle of Fifth Avenue. At 2 o’clock in the morning on Sunday you can’t walk down the middle of Fifth Avenue.

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Exploring Morality in I Am Legend

Quotes about I Am Legend: [[CDC; they; we] Well, we actually, and this also is reflected in the casting of Emma Thompson in that cameo at the very beginning. Francis and Will, this would be chapter one on nerds on parade, spent an unbelievable amount of time at the ]. I'm pretty sure are probably infected right now with something, so you should all wear masks. But I think that finally came to this idea that it's too easy to always assume that things will go wrong because someone was twirling their mustache. That, in fact, sometimes things go wrong out of people trying to do right. That was sort of trying to take a different turn on it. So that was where I think we came out. You really liked that. That was really you

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Listening in a Moment of Connection

Neville: [Places vial containing the KV antidote into Anna's hand as he prepares to face the "dark seekers."] I think this is why you're here.

Anna: What are you doing?

Neville: I'm listening.

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Hope and Doubt in a Desolate World

Anna: Come with us, Neville. To the colony.

Neville: [closes metal barrier] There's no colony, Anna. Everything just fell apart. There was no evacuation plan...

Anna: [[wrong] You're ]. There is a colony. I know, okay?

Anna: [closes another barrier] How do you know, Anna?

Neville: I just know.

Anna: How? I said, how do you know? How could you know?

Anna: [[God] ] told me. He has a plan.

Neville: God told you?

Anna: Yes.

Neville: The God?

Anna: Yes. I know how this sounds.

Neville: It sounds crazy.

Anna: But something told me to turn on the radio. Something told me to come here.

Neville: My voice on the radio told you to come here, Anna.

Anna: [[reason] You were trying to kill yourself last night, weren't you? And I got here just in time. He must have sent me here for a ].

Neville: Anna... Stop it. What are you doing? Stop it.

Anna: [[listen] The world is quieter now. We just have to ]. If we listen, we can hear God's plan.

Neville: God's plan?

Anna: Yeah.

Neville: [[Earth; claps hands together] All right. Let me tell you about your "God's plan". There were 6 billion people on ] when the infection hit. KV had a 90% kill rate, that's 5.4 billion people dead. Crashed and bled out. Dead. Less than 1% immunity. That left 12 million healthy people, like you, me, and Ethan. The other 588 million turned into your dark seekers, and then they got hungry and they killed and fed on everybody. Everybody! Every single person that you or I has ever known is DEAD! DEAD! There is no God. There is no God!

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Human Responsibility for Catastrophe

Anna: Did they all die?

Neville: Yes.

Anna: My God.

Neville: God didn't do this. We did.

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Struggles with Communication in Isolation

Neville: [While watching a video of ''[[Shrek] ], softly recites all of the dialogue of an entire scene aloud as the lines are spoken on TV. Anna and Ethan stare at him] I like Shrek.

Anna: You're not so good with people anymore, are you?

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Reprogramming Nature for Medical Advances

TV Personality: The world of medicine has seen its share of miracle cures, from the polio vaccine to heart transplants. But all past achievements may pale in comparison to the work of Dr. Alice Krippin. Thank you so much for joining us this morning.

Dr. Alice Krippin: Not at all.

TV Personality: So, Dr. Krippin, give it to me in a nutshell.

Dr. Alice Krippin: Well, the premise is quite simple — um, take something designed by nature and reprogram it to make it work for the body rather than against it.

TV Personality: You're talking about a virus?

Dr. Alice Krippin: Indeed, yes. In this case the measles, um, virus which has been engineered at a genetic level to be helpful rather than harmful. Um, I find the best way to describe it is if you can... if you can imagine your body as a highway, and you picture the virus as a very fast car, being driven by a very bad man. Imagine the damage that car can cause. Then if you replace that man with a cop... the picture changes. And that's essentially what we've done.

TV Personality: And how many people have you treated so far?

Dr. Alice Krippin: Well, we've had 10,009 clinical trials in humans so far.

TV Personality: And how many are cancer-free?

Dr. Alice Krippin: 10,009.

TV Personality: So you have actually cured cancer.

Dr. Alice Krippin: Yes, yes... yes, we have.

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Light Up the Darkness

Robert Neville: [telling Anna about [[Bob Marley; [racism; [hate; [music; [love; [lives; [peace] He had this idea. It was kind of a virologist idea. He believed that you could cure ] and ]... literally cure it, by injecting ] and ] into people's ]. When he was scheduled to perform at a ] rally, a gunman came to his house and shot him down. Two days later he walked out on that stage and sang. When they asked him why — He said, "The people who are trying to make this world worse are not taking a day off. How can I? Light up the darkness.

A Plea for Acknowledgment and Connection

Robert Neville: [now completely alone, Neville talks to the department store mannequins; crying] I promised my friend I would say hello to you today. Hello. Hello. Please say hello to me. Please say hello to me!

Desperation in a Fractured Reality

Robert Neville: [sees the department store dummy, Fred, outside of the store; grabs his assault rifle; guns the dummy down] What the hell are you doing out here, Fred? What the hell-No! NO! What the hell... Fred, if you're real, you better tell me right now! Dammit Fred... IF YOU'RE REAL, YOU BETTER TELL ME RIGHT NOW! DAMN IT, FRED!! DAMN IT!

Claiming Responsibility for the Crisis

Robert Neville: This is Ground Zero. This is my site. I can still fix this.

Reflections on Survival and Social De-evolution

Robert Neville: [to Sam] Day 1001. Uh, we came in close contact with a hive today. Blood tests confirm that I am immune to both the airborne and contact strains. Canines remain immune to airborne strain only. You can't go running into the dark, dummy. Vaccine trials continue, I'm still unable to transfer my immunity to infected hosts. The Krippen Virus is... elegant. Just fishing in the dark, son. Hm, a behavioral note, um, an infected male exposed himself to sunlight today. Now, it's possible decreased brain function or the growing scarcity of food is causing them to... ignore their basic survival instincts. Social de-evolution appears complete. Typical human behavior is now entirely absent.

Serum 391: Hope in Compound 6

Robert Neville: [goes over to a stack of glass cubicles containing KV infected rats; pause] Dr. Robert Neville, September 5th, 2012, GA series, serum 391. Animal trials. Streaming video. GA series results appear typical. Compounds 1, 3, 4, 6, 8, 9, 10, 11, 14, 16, 18 did not kill the virus. Compounds 2, 5, 7, 12, 13, 15, 17 all killed the host. Hold on a second. Compound 6 appears to be showing decreased aggression response. Partial pigmentation return. Slight pupil constriction. GA series, serum 391, Compound 6, next candidate for human trials. You hang in there, #6.

A Call for Survivors in New York

Robert Neville: My name is Robert Neville. I am a survivor living in New York City. I am broadcasting on all AM frequencies. I will be at the South Street Seaport everyday at mid-day, when the sun is highest in the sky. If you are out there... if anyone is out there... I can provide food, I can provide shelter, I can provide security. If there's anybody out there... anybody... please. You are not alone.

Child's Innocent Observation in a Crisis

Marley: [[butterfly] Mommy look, it's a ]!

Legacy of Sacrifice and Hope

Anna: [[civilization; [humankind; [life; [humanity; [Light; [darkness] In 2009 a deadly virus burned through our ], pushing ] to the edge of extinction. Dr. Robert Neville dedicated his ] to the discovery of a cure, and the restoration of ]. On September 9th, 2012, at approximately 8:49 p.m. he discovered that cure; and at 8:52 he gave his life to defend it. We are his legacy. This is his legend. ] up the ].