The Thirteenth Floor Quotes

  • Jason Whitney/Jerry Ashton: Hey! What'd you do to the world?

    Douglas Hall: Turned it off.

  • Douglas Hall: Of course, we've improved on this model since then, now the players can beat the shit out of, and try to drown one another.

  • Detective McBain: I think I made the age-old mistake: Never trust a beautiful woman.

  • Detective McBain: [after shooting David and realizing the truth] So, is someone gonna unplug me now?

    [to Jane]

    Detective McBain: Do me a favor, will you? When you get back to wherever it is that you come from, just leave us all the hell alone down here, okay?

  • Hannon Fuller: [First lines] Ignorance is bliss. For the first time in my life, I agree.

  • Jason Whitney/Jerry Ashton: Why are you fucking with our lives?

  • [last lines]

    Jane Fuller: There's so many things I have to tell you about, Doug.

  • Detective McBain: [after repeatedly informing McBain throughout the film that he doesn't smoke, Hall fishes a cigarette out of his pack and lights it while being interrogated] Man, you're picking up bad habits left and right.

    Douglas Hall: Must be the stress.

    Detective McBain: Then you'll need a carton.

  • Jason Whitney/Jerry Ashton: If you're thinkin' what I think you're thinkin', don't even think about it.

  • Jason Whitney/Jerry Ashton: So who's in control?

    Douglas Hall: *Not* us.

  • Jane Fuller: Why did you butcher those people?

    Douglas Hall: Because it was fun!

  • Douglas Hall: He did it. He jacked in.

    Jason Whitney/Jerry Ashton: Huh? Who's Jack?

  • Douglas Hall: I know the truth.

    Jane Fuller: Where are you?

    Douglas Hall: You could call it the end of the world.

  • Douglas Hall: We're nothing but a simulation on some computer.

  • Jane Fuller: I fell in love with you before I even met you.

    Douglas Hall: How can you love me? I am not even real. You can't fall in love with a dream.

    Jane Fuller: You're more real to me than anything I've ever known.

  • Jason Whitney/Jerry Ashton: So this is where I was born.

    [David, in Douglas' body, shoots Ashton]

    Douglas Hall: And this is where you die.

Extended Reading
  • Spencer 2021-12-31 08:02:51

    Plato said: The real world only exists in our imagination. If this world turns out to be false, what if everything had already existed? "Different Dimensional Hacker" heralds this tempting but terrifying possibility. The film points out the sad and pitiful state of mind of human beings, always wishing to become a dominator, at the cost of manipulating the lives of others. And the wisest has also become the saddest person. When you go further among the same kind, when you expand your eyes and discover the limitations of this world and the falsehood of existence, you become the poorest person. Survival is so absurd and sad, and the biggest sorrow is that there are too few people who know the truth. Cogito ergo sum. But who knows? Perhaps worldly happiness comes from ignorance.

  • Bobby 2021-12-31 08:02:51

    The meaning of the last shot is very obscure. It took a while to understand. Kind of interesting