Cube Quotes
7 complete strangers of widely varying personality characteristics are involuntarily placed in an endless kafkaesque maze containing deadly traps.
Holloway: It's all the same machine, right? The Pentagon, multinational corporations, the police. If you do one little job, you build a widget in Saskatoon, and the next thing you know, it's two miles under the desert, the essential component of a death machine. I was right! All along, my whole life, I knew it! I told you, Quentin. Nobody's ever going to call me paranoid again! We've gotta get out of here and blow the lid off this thing!
Worth: Holloway, you don't get it.
Holloway: Then help me, please. I need to know!
Worth: This may be hard for you to understand, but there is no conspiracy. Nobody is in charge. It, it's a headless blunder operating under the illusion of a master plan. Can you grasp that? Big Brother is not watching you.
Worth: Holloway, you don't get it.
Holloway: Then help me, please. I need to know!
Worth: This may be hard for you to understand, but there is no conspiracy. Nobody is in charge. It, it's a headless blunder operating under the illusion of a master plan. Can you grasp that? Big Brother is not watching you.
Quentin: Why don't you tell us what your purpose is, Worth?
Worth: Often wondered that myself. I'm just a guy, I work in an office building doing office building stuff. I wasn't exactly bursting with joie de vivre before I got here, life just sucks in general.
Holloway: Oh I can't stand that attitude.
Leaven: 'Cos he's right.
Worth: Often wondered that myself. I'm just a guy, I work in an office building doing office building stuff. I wasn't exactly bursting with joie de vivre before I got here, life just sucks in general.
Holloway: Oh I can't stand that attitude.
Leaven: 'Cos he's right.
Leaven: Give me a minute. Okay. The numbers are markers; points on the map, right?
Worth: Right.
Leaven: And how do you map a point that keeps moving?
Worth: Permutations.
Quentin: Permu - what?
Leaven: Permutations. A list of all the coordinates that the room passes through. Like, a map that tells you where the room starts, how many times it moves, and where it moves to.
Quentin: The number tells you all that?
Leaven: I don't know. See, I've been looking at only one point on the map. Which is probably the starting position. All I saw was what the Cube looked like before it started to move.
Quentin: Okay, so it's moving. How do we get out?
Leaven: 27. - I know where the exit is.
Quentin: [standing up] Where?
Leaven: [ferociously] Stay away from me.
Worth: Back off, Quentin!
Quentin: I just want to know. Don't you want to know?
Leaven: [to Worth] You remember that room we passed through before? The one with the coordinate larger than 26?
Worth: What about it?
Leaven: That coordinate placed the room outside the cube.
Worth: A bridge!
Leaven: Right! But only in its original position.
Quentin: What are you talking about?
Leaven: Look. The room starts off as a bridge. And then it moves its way through the maze, which is where we ran into it. But, at some point, it must return to its original position.
Worth: So the bridge is only a bridge...
Leaven: For a short period of time. This thing is like a giant combination lock. When the rooms are in their starting position, the lock is open. But when they move out of alignment, the lock closes!
Worth: Right.
Leaven: And how do you map a point that keeps moving?
Worth: Permutations.
Quentin: Permu - what?
Leaven: Permutations. A list of all the coordinates that the room passes through. Like, a map that tells you where the room starts, how many times it moves, and where it moves to.
Quentin: The number tells you all that?
Leaven: I don't know. See, I've been looking at only one point on the map. Which is probably the starting position. All I saw was what the Cube looked like before it started to move.
Quentin: Okay, so it's moving. How do we get out?
Leaven: 27. - I know where the exit is.
Quentin: [standing up] Where?
Leaven: [ferociously] Stay away from me.
Worth: Back off, Quentin!
Quentin: I just want to know. Don't you want to know?
Leaven: [to Worth] You remember that room we passed through before? The one with the coordinate larger than 26?
Worth: What about it?
Leaven: That coordinate placed the room outside the cube.
Worth: A bridge!
Leaven: Right! But only in its original position.
Quentin: What are you talking about?
Leaven: Look. The room starts off as a bridge. And then it moves its way through the maze, which is where we ran into it. But, at some point, it must return to its original position.
Worth: So the bridge is only a bridge...
Leaven: For a short period of time. This thing is like a giant combination lock. When the rooms are in their starting position, the lock is open. But when they move out of alignment, the lock closes!
Quentin: [talking to Holloway] You listen to me, woman. Every day I mop up after your bleeding heart. The only reason you even exist is because I keep you!. I know your type. No kids, no man to fuck you. So, you go around outraged, sticking your nose up other people's assholes. Sniffing their business.
Worth: We've been going in circles.
Quentin: That can't be.
Worth: [Quentin hauls Leaven off the ground and over to the window to the outside] Where are we?
Leaven: I don't know.
Quentin: [roaring like a lion] Where are we?
Leaven: *You* figure it out! You haven't done anything! All you do is freak out, you murderer!
[Leaven weeps, while Worth is oddly laughing. Quentin drops to the floor]
Quentin: I guess you were right, Worth. There is no way out of here.
Quentin: [Quentin begins crying, and Kazan pats his head] Get away from me.
Worth: [Worth has been thinking, and he gets to his feet] Wasn't Rennes killed in that room?
[Worth re-opens the door to the darkness outside and asks: ]
Worth: How come there's nothing out there?
Quentin: It's the edge.
Worth: We weren't at the edge before. Where's the room that killed Rennes?
Quentin: [flings a boot out into the darkness] Fuck off!
Worth: Oh, that was good.
Quentin: What difference does it make? We're dead anyways.
Worth: Hey, listen to what I'm saying! There was a room there before. We haven't been moving in circles; the rooms have!
Leaven: Of course.
Quentin: Rooms...?
Leaven: That explains the thunder and the shaking. We've been shifting the whole time.
Leaven: It, it's the only logical explanation.
[she climbs up to the window into darkness next to Worth]
Leaven: I'm such an idiot.
Worth: What are you on to, Leaven?
Quentin: That can't be.
Worth: [Quentin hauls Leaven off the ground and over to the window to the outside] Where are we?
Leaven: I don't know.
Quentin: [roaring like a lion] Where are we?
Leaven: *You* figure it out! You haven't done anything! All you do is freak out, you murderer!
[Leaven weeps, while Worth is oddly laughing. Quentin drops to the floor]
Quentin: I guess you were right, Worth. There is no way out of here.
Quentin: [Quentin begins crying, and Kazan pats his head] Get away from me.
Worth: [Worth has been thinking, and he gets to his feet] Wasn't Rennes killed in that room?
[Worth re-opens the door to the darkness outside and asks: ]
Worth: How come there's nothing out there?
Quentin: It's the edge.
Worth: We weren't at the edge before. Where's the room that killed Rennes?
Quentin: [flings a boot out into the darkness] Fuck off!
Worth: Oh, that was good.
Quentin: What difference does it make? We're dead anyways.
Worth: Hey, listen to what I'm saying! There was a room there before. We haven't been moving in circles; the rooms have!
Leaven: Of course.
Quentin: Rooms...?
Leaven: That explains the thunder and the shaking. We've been shifting the whole time.
Leaven: It, it's the only logical explanation.
[she climbs up to the window into darkness next to Worth]
Leaven: I'm such an idiot.
Worth: What are you on to, Leaven?
