Key quotes from Close Encounters of the Third Kind
Language and Communication Quotes
PROJECT LEADER: Is the interpreter with you?LAUGHLIN: I'm not a professional interpreter. My occupation is cartography. I'm a mapmaker.PROJECT LEADER: Can you translate French into English and Engl...
Wisdom and Knowledge Quotes
LAUGHLIN: Tell me something: What the hell is happening here?PROJECT LEADER: It's Flight number 19.LAUGHLIN: 19 what?PROJECT LEADER: It's that training mission from the station at Fort Lauderdale....
Fear Quotes
[After Roy's close encounter with the UFO, he sits dazed in his truck. When the flashlight turns on, he jumps and lets out a scream.]
Innocence Quotes
ROY: The kids have never seen Pinocchio. You guys have never seen Pinocchio. You're in luck.RONNIE: I don't believe this.BRAD: Who wants to go to see a dumb cartoon rated "G" for kids?ROY: How old...
Technology and Modernization Quotes
PROJECT LEADER: He says this guy is local. He was here last night. He saw what happened.LACOMBE [Examining the old man]: Sunburn?[Lacombe expresses his sympathies in French. The old man speaks in S...