Avatar — Movie Quotes

Exchanged at the story's most intimate turning points, and finally spoken across the gap between a Na'vi and a dying human body — the moment the metaphor and the plot become the same thing.

The film's thesis in three words. Among the Na'vi it does not mean visual perception but recognition of another's inner self — soul, character, worth. It is also the title of the film's end-credits theme, marking it as the emotional key of the whole picture.

Quaritch's welcome address to newly arrived personnel, establishing Pandora as an enemy environment before anyone has seen a single Na'vi.

A briefing-room joke that quietly announces the film's genre debt to The Wizard of Oz — a story about a person carried into a technicolor world and having to decide where home is. In Quaritch's mouth the wonder is inverted into threat.

Spoken to his video log in the link shack, as his sleep cycles and his loyalties begin to invert.

The clearest statement of the film's identity theme, and its cleanest bit of dramatic irony: the audience knows long before Jake admits it which life he has already chosen.

Narration accompanying his deepening immersion in Na'vi life, before the ground is cut out from under him.

Reframes the whole story as being about a soldier's hunger for meaning rather than a scout's mission. It is also the film's sharpest critique of the war he came from: he was already a warrior, but for nothing.

The Tsahìk's verdict when she decides Jake may be taught — a warning delivered as permission.

A statement of the film's epistemology: understanding requires emptying yourself of the certainties you arrived with. It indicts the entire human mission, which came to Pandora with its conclusions pre-loaded.

His rallying speech to the assembled clans, calling them to fight rather than flee.

The moment the infiltrator stops speaking as a translator and speaks as a member. The pronoun is the entire arc: 'our' rather than 'their.'