Alan Yates Quotes in Cannibal Holocaust (1980)

[the group come across the impaled girl. Close-up of Alan smiling at the scene while Faye glares at him]

Mark Tomasso: [off camera] Watch it, Alan, I'm shooting.

Alan Yates: [feigns shock] Oh, good Lord! It's unbelievable. It's... it's horrible. I can't understand the reason for such cruelty. It must have something to do with some obscure sexual rite or with the almost profound respect these primitives have for virginity.

Alan Yates: [Faye, Alan's fiance, is being carried away by the Yanomanos] Faye! Faye!

Mark Tomasso: [Simultaneously screaming at each other] Did you see it, Alan? She's had it! We gotta think of ourselves!

Alan Yates: No! We gotta get her outta there! I want to save her!

Mark Tomasso: We gotta get the film back home, Alan!

Alan Yates: I wanna save her!

Mark Tomasso: Think of the film, Alan, think of the film!

Alan Yates: I don't give a shit about it!

[cuts away]

Alan Yates: [while filming a burning hut full of terrified natives] It's beautiful!

Faye Daniels: [while Jack is filming a rape] Jack, what do you want to use this for, a porno film? Stupid men!

Alan Yates: That's not a bad idea! How about "Jungle Jollies"?

Alan Yates: Here we are at the edge of the world of human history. Things like this happen all the time in the jungle; it's survival of the fittest! In the jungle, it's the daily violence of the strong overcoming the weak! Jack!

Alan Yates: We really screwed ourselves this time, trying to, trying to stay there for the last shot. I don't even know where we are now, but I know, they... I know they, uh, followed us, and, and we lost everything trying to escape. We're screwed! We're trapped!