James Krippendorf Quotes in Krippendorf's Tribe (1998)

James Krippendorf: [to his teenage daughter] Excuse me! Who is the adult in this room?... Don't answer that! I am the adult in this room.

Veronica Micelli: Professor! Come here.

James Krippendorf: Oh... Tinker Bell.

Simon Alonso: What are they called?

James Krippendorf: Huh?

President Porter: Do they have a name, Professor Krippendorf?

James Krippendorf: Of course they have a name. Uh, uh - The, uh, the "Shelmikedmu."-The Shel - Shelmikedmu.

Lori: What?

James Krippendorf: [Clears Throat] The Shelmikedmu.

[Professor Krippendorff, with a movie camera, walks in on Mickey and Edmund, who are shirtless and painting their bodies]

Mickey Krippendorf: Hey! The Shelmickedmu do not allow their pictures taken without the ritual paint.

James Krippendorf: Nicely put.

Mickey Krippendorf: It is our way.

James Krippendorf: Yo!

Veronica Micelli: [drunk] How do I stack up?

James Krippendorf: Well, as the Shelmickedmu would say, "Jagga banga!" which roughly translates as, "More pigs than you can imagine."

Veronica Micelli: [storming out of the house] You can kiss my Neolithic butt!

James Krippendorf: [to his father-in-law] Proud woman. I try to respect her feelings.

[goat in the hall bleats]

James Krippendorf: Oh, Miss Micelli, you forgot your goat!

James Krippendorf: [sending his children off to school] Make me proud. Come home different.

[Mickey chases his hamster with a rake]

James Krippendorf: Mickey, put the rake down and get on the bus! You can finish killing your pet when you get home!

James Krippendorf: [in costume] The Shelmikedmu utabaji embraces his death with courage and dignity.

[belches]

Shelly Krippendorf: You are pathetic.

James Krippendorf: What?

Shelly Krippendorf: You said we weren't doing any more of these.

James Krippendorf: Oh, give me a break, I'm dying with dignity out here.

Shelly Krippendorf: Why don't you try living with some?

James Krippendorf: Excuse me, ah, what exactly is the older brother doing?

Mickey Krippendorf: He is completing the ritual dance in which he asks the gods to protect the young boy from the many brides who will want him and his pig wealth.

James Krippendorf: [filming the phoney "circumcision"] Edmund, you're looking up to the gods with trepidation... "Trepidation."... "Trepidation."... You're afraid you're brother is actually going to cut your wee-wee off.

[Edmund gasps]

James Krippendorf: Another brandy, Professor Micelli?

Veronica Micelli: [drunk] I'd don't think I should.

[She tilts the bottle to fill her glass]

Veronica Micelli: No, just a little bit more.

James Krippendorf: [as the Utabaji] You-ah bitch.

Veronica Micelli: He says it's a very large and frightening country, filled with many things he thought existed only in myth.

Larry Swift: And he said all of that in three syllables?

Veronica Micelli: It's a very concise language, Larry.