Fahrenheit 451 is an adaptation of the novel of the same name, by Ray Bradbury. It is a tale of an oppressive future where books are blamed as the unsettling force that makes people discontent with their lot, and undermines the stability and smooth running of society. So the books have to be burned.
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Ron Glass as Shepherd Book in Serenity: "I killed the ship that...killed us. It's not very Christian of me."
Sylvester Stallone as John Spartan in Demolition Man: "Somebody put me back in the fridge."
Earl Boen as Dr. Silberman in The Terminator: "Why didn't you bring any weapons, something more advanced? Don't you have, uh, ray guns? Show me a piece of future technology."
Rudolf Klein-Rogge as Rotwang in Metropolis: "Isn't it worth the loss of a hand to have created the man of the future, the Machine-Man? ! Give me another 24 hours - and no one, Joh Fredersen, no one will be able to tell a Machine-Man from a mortal! The woman is mine, Joh Fredersen! The son of Hel was yours!"
Brigitte Helm as Machine-Man Maria in Metropolis: "You know that I have always spoken of peace...but your mediator has not come... You have waited long enough! Your time has come -! Who is the living food for the machines in Metropolis!? Who lubricates the machine joints with their own blood?! Who feeds the machines with their own flesh?! Let the machines starve, you fools! Let them die! Kill them - the machines!!"
Gina Torres as Zoe Washburne in Serenity: "Jayne, we're robbing the place, we're not occupying 'em."
Hugo Weaving as Agent Smith in The Matrix: "I hate this place. This zoo. This prison. This reality, whatever you want to call it, I can't stand it any longer. It's the smell, if there is such a thing. I feel saturated by it. I can taste your stink and every time I do, I fear that I've somehow been infected by it."
Cyril Cusack as Charrington in Nineteen Eighty-Four: "Oranges and lemons, say the bells of St. Clements..."
James Walker as Syme in Nineteen Eighty-Four: "It's a beautiful thing, the destruction of words."