Needful Things (1993)

Ed Harris: Sheriff Alan Pangborn

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• [Alan is trying to break up an argument between Deputy Norris and Danforth] 

  Alan : You know, guys, I moved here and I thought, Great! I'm outta the big city and I'm finally in a place where everybody isn't gonna be crawling up everybody's asshole every day! A place where maybe my biggest nightmare is gonna be getting some goddamn cat out of a tree! But forget that! EVERYBODY IS INSANE, EVERYWHERE!

• Father Meehan : If there's a devil in this town, it's that damned Reverend Willie Rose!

  Alan : You believe me now, Father? You still think he's a decent man? The Devil just blew up your damn church!

  Father Meehan : That's not the Devil. It's those God-damned Baptists!

• Alan : Do you believe in the Devil, Father?

  Father Meehan : I guess I have to. You can't have one without the other. Do you believe in God, Alan?

  Alan : What's he look like?

  Father Meehan : Look like?

  Alan : Yeah. The Devil. What the hell does he look like?

  Father Meehan : Well, he looks like you and me, I imagine.

  Alan : So he could get his claws in us without our ever knowing, make us do things that we normally would never do. Terrible things.

• Alan : Nettie didn't throw those apples. Think about it. Would you go over to somebody's house to kill 'em but spend a half an hour breaking all their windows first?