Death Wish/Quotes

"Bronson: "What do we do next?"

Winner: "The best script I've got is Death Wish. It's about a man whose wife and daughter are mugged and he goes out and shoots muggers."

Bronson: "I'd like to do that."

Winner "The film?"

Bronson: "No... shoot muggers.""

- The discussion between Charles Bronson and Michael Winner while they were thinking about their next project together.

"I don't want to stay in tonight and watch Death Wish 3"

- They Might Be Giants, "Anaheim"

"Paul Kersey: Nothing to do but cut and run, huh? What else? What about the old American social custom of self-defense? If the police don't defend us, maybe we ought to do it ourselves.

Jack Toby: We're not pioneers anymore, Dad.

Paul Kersey: What are we, Jack?

Jack Toby: What do you mean?

Paul Kersey: I mean, if we're not pioneers, what have we become? What do you call people who, when they're faced with a condition of fear, do nothing about it, they just run and hide?

Jack Toby: Civilized?

Paul Kersey: No."

- From the first Death Wish movie.