-
Interrogation Sergeant: What's your name? Come on. What's your name? Do you have a name? Do you have a police record? Where are you from?
John Ryder: Disneyland.
-
[Picking up the hitchhiker]
Jim Halsey: My mother told me to never do this.
-
Jim Halsey: Do I look like a killer to you?
-
Nash: Actually we're all from Mars around here, we keep our spaceship out back. So... what planet are you from?
-
Nash: Why didn't he kill us?
Jim Halsey: Let's go...
Nash: WHY DIDN'T HE KILL US?
[pause]
Jim Halsey: Let's go.
-
John Ryder: Gas stations have cigarettes.
Jim Halsey: What about gas?
John Ryder: I don't need gas.
Jim Halsey: What do you want?
[John starts laughing]
Jim Halsey: What's so funny?
John Ryder: That's what the other guy said.
Jim Halsey: What other guy?
John Ryder: That guy back there, the one we just passed. The guy who picked me up before you did.
Jim Halsey: That was him in there?
John Ryder: Sure it was. He couldn't have walked very far.
Jim Halsey: Why's that?
John Ryder: Because I cut off his legs... and his arms... and his head... and I'm going to do the same to you.
-
Jim Halsey: Look, I think you better get out now.
[Silence]
Jim Halsey: . The ride is over.
[Silence]
Jim Halsey: . Goodbye.
John Ryder: I'm going to sit here. And you're going to drive.
-
Jim Halsey: They'll catch you.
John Ryder: [Scoffs] Yeah... sure. So what?
-
John Ryder: How do you like "Shitsville"?
-
Trooper Hancock: You just threw your life down the toilet, girl.
Nash: When the truth comes down, I'll be just fine.
-
[Donner photographs Jim Halsey]
Trooper Donner: Well, these are real good. Your mama's gonna like those.
-
Trooper Hancock: You spit on my wrist.
Jim Halsey: What?
Trooper Hancock: I said you spit on my wrist. Wipe it off.
-
Captain Esteridge: You're gonna get yourself killed. And if you don't, you're gonna be in a whole lotta trouble.
Jim Halsey: I'm sorry, sir. It's something I gotta do.
Captain Esteridge: No, you don't know what you're doin'.
Jim Halsey: Yeah, I do.
-
[Jim watches John Ryder being interrogated]
Jim Halsey: [whispering] John Ryder.
Captain Esteridge: What'd you say?
Jim Halsey: His name is John Ryder.
-
[John leaps into the police truck that Jim is driving]
John Ryder: Hi kid.
-
Trooper Hancock: [talking about Jim] Don't you know who he is?
Nash: You got the wrong man, Lyle.
Trooper Hancock: Like hell we do!
-
Proprietor: Well, what happened to you?
Jim Halsey: Nothing.
Proprietor: Nothing?
Jim Halsey: Nothing happened.
-
Sergeant Starr: [to Donner] That kid ain't a killer. Any fool can see that.
-
Jim Halsey: [trying to get policemen to help untie Nash from between two large trucks] Why don't you do something?... FUCKING DO SOMETHING!
-
[John wants Jim to say, "I want to die"]
Jim Halsey: I don't know if I can say that.
John Ryder: Sure you can. Repeat after me. I...
Jim Halsey: I...
John Ryder: Want... want...
Jim Halsey: Want...
John Ryder: To...
Jim Halsey: To...
John Ryder: Die... Die.
Jim Halsey: I don't want to die!
-
John Ryder: You wanna know what happens to an eyeball when it gets punctured? Do you got any idea how much blood jets out of a guy's neck when his throat's been slit?
-
Jim Halsey: What do you want?
John Ryder: I want you to stop me.
-
Jim Halsey: Why are you doing this to me?
John Ryder: You're a smart kid... figure it out.
-
Captain Esteridge: [Alone with Jim in police car] There is something strange going on between the two of you. I don't know what it is. I don't want to know.
The Hitcher Quotes
Extended Reading
