Name: Panic Room
Genre: Drama, Thriller, Crime
Released: 2002-03-29
Duration: 111 min
Rating: 6.8
Cast: Jodie Foster, Kristen Stewart, Forest Whitaker, Dwight Yoakam, Jared Leto

19 quotes

Panic Room

Truth Revealed Through Actions

Burnham He's telling the truth.

[about Stephen Altman]

Raoul Yeah, he's telling the truth... you know how I know? Cause when I do this... ...people don't lie.

[Raoul points the gun at Burnham]

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Panic Room

Questioning Past Decisions

Raoul Why the hell didn't we do that?

[Meg smashes the video cameras with a sledgehammer]

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Panic Room

Comfort in Confinement

Sarah Are you okay?

Meg Yeah.

Sarah Small space?

Meg I'm okay.

Sarah You can't wig out.

Meg I know.

Sarah I mean it.

Meg I won't.

Sarah You know, people never get buried alive anymore. I guess it used to happen all the time.

Meg Really?

Sarah Yeah, I read that.

Meg And when did this happen all the time?

Sarah 20, 30 years ago.

Meg What are they doing now?

Sarah I don't know.

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Panic Room

Consequences of Inaction and Dependency

Burnham Do you need this?

[about the insulin shot]

Burnham Can you do it yourself?

Burnham What happens if you don't get it?

Sarah Coma. Die.

[weak whispering]

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Panic Room

A Moment of Regret and Reflection

Meg Altman Look, my husband and I just split up and it's my first night in a new house and I admit I was a little drunk. And the sentence, if you insist on knowing, was going to be, "There are three things that I'll do for you if you come jump into bed with me." Thank God I came to my senses before I said all that, and I hung up so nobody would ever have to know what I was thinking. Unless, of course, two policemen came in the middle of the night and interrogated me.

[After Officer Keeney asked what she meant when she said, "There were three..." on the phone]

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Panic Room

Urgent Plea to Turn Off the Gas

Burnham Turn the gas off. Turn the gas off right now.

[Hearing Meg clicking a striker in the panic room. To Raoul]

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Panic Room

Nervous Conversation About Music Preferences

Meg This whole thing makes me nervous.

[after being told about panic room]

Lydia Lynch Why?

Meg Ever read any ]?

[[Edgar Allan Poe|Poe]

Lydia Lynch No, but I loved her last album!

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Panic Room

Irony in Security and Intrusion

Junior How do we get in to that room?

Raoul Hey! What is funny about this?... Is this shit funny to you?

[Burnham laughs]

Burnham Well, I spent the last 12 years of my life building these rooms specifically to keep out people like us.

Junior It's all so ironic and amusing, okay? Now, how do we get in?

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Panic Room

Reassurance Amidst Chaos

Burnham You're gonna be okay now.

[After shooting Raoul dead. To Meg and Sarah; Leaves]

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Panic Room

Doubt and Assurance in Crisis Situation

Meg He'll do something.

[about their neighbor]

Sarah No he won't.

Meg He'll call the police.

Sarah You don't know her, mom. She won't let him.

Meg No, he knows there is trouble. He heard me. He's right across the park. That's why we got houses so close to each other. Just in case we needed each other. He'll help us!

Sarah He won't.

Meg Yes he will! I'm sorry.

[yells; pauses]

Sarah No, I'm sorry. I was trying not to tell you.

Meg What?

Sarah I'm dizzy and hungry.

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Panic Room

Conflict Between Characters in a Tense Scene

Junior Any other schoolyard bullshit you wanna settle, or can we get the fuck back to work?

Raoul Don't you take no tone with me, jerkwad, cause I'll shove it up your ass and snap it off.

Junior You know what? You're a bus driver, Raoul! You live in Flatbush! So don't start spouting some ] bullshit you just heard because I saw that movie too.

[[Elmore Leonard]

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Panic Room

Confrontation Over Boundaries in a House

Meg Get out of my house!

[on loudspeaker]

Sarah Say fuck!

Meg YOU FUCK!

[on loud speaker]

Sarah Mom! "Get the fuck out of my house"!

Meg Get the FUCK out of my house!

[on loudspeaker]

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Panic Room

Threats and Intimidation in Crisis

Raoul You fucking bitch! You pull any shit like that again, I will fucking kill her! Do you hear me? If you step outside, I'll kill her! If I see a uniform inside this house, I'll cut her fucking throat! Do you understand?

[to Meg over P.A. system after having hand caught in the panic room door]

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Panic Room

The Illusion of Safety in Panic Room

Taglines It was supposed to be the safest room in the house.

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Panic Room

Pizza on a Special Night

Meg Hey. Enough. Mind the pizza?

Sarah What do you mean?

Meg Our first night. I should've thought of something special.

Sarah I like pizza.

Sarah Fuck him.

Meg Don't.

Sarah Fuck her, too.

Meg I agree. But don't.

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Panic Room

A Tense Exchange Between Meg and Officer

Meg Altman Well, you don't look so hot yourself, Officer Keeney.

[Officer Keeney tells her she doesn't look good]

Panic Room

Complex Emotions in Relationships

Meg It's disgusting how much I love you.

[gives a goodnight kiss to Sarah]

Sarah Tell me about it.

Panic Room

Job Security in a Dangerous Profession

Burnham This is what I do; if some idiot with a sledgehammer could break in do you really think I'd still have a job?

Panic Room

Wealth and Tension in a Crisis Situation

Raoul Don't you look at me.

[to Sarah]

Burnham Hey, all I know about this is what I've seen on TV. You gotta talk me through this. Nice house you guys got. Mom's rich?

[fills syringe with insulin]

Sarah Dad's rich. Mom's just mad.

Burnham Like this?

Sarah Tap it.

Burnham I wish I could put my kid in a place like this. Not that I didn't try. Just sometimes things they don't work out the way you want them to. Wasn't supposed to be like this. You weren't supposed to be here.

Sarah Thanks. Burnham.

[reads jumpsuit]

Burnham Wasn't supposed to be like this.