Dr. Cocteau Quotes in Demolition Man (1993)

Dr. Cocteau: John Spartan, this display of barbaric behavior was unacceptable even in your time!

John Spartan: Yeah. But it worked.

[Shoots out the monitors with Cocteau's face on them]

John Spartan: When a man like Pheonix has a gun to your head, ten seconds is nine and a half seconds longer than you live.

Dr. Cocteau: Be well!

John Spartan: Be fucked.

Dr. Cocteau: John Spartan, this display of barbaric behavior was unacceptable even in your time!

John Spartan: Yeah. But it worked.

[Shooting]

John Spartan: When a man like Simon Pheonix pionts a gun at your head, 10 seconds is 9 1/2 seconds longer than you live.

Dr. Cocteau: Well I must say that whacking, whatever it is, sounds most disagreeable.

[Spartan and Huxley enter and see Cocteau's face speaking to them from dozens of monitors]

Dr. Cocteau: Forgive my lack of bodily disposition, but I do have an entire city government to run.

John Spartan: Yeah, well run this: you programmed Phoenix's rehabilitation program to turn him into a terrorist, and I don't think his escape was an accident either!

Lenina Huxley: Very subtle.

John Spartan: Thank you.

Dr. Cocteau: Isn't there a thought repeating in that barbaric brain of yours? The name Friendly? Mr. Edgar Friendly? Don't you have someone to kill?