Mateo Quotes in The Gods Must Be Crazy II (1989)

Timi: [being chased by Mateo, opens a little book up and reads] Excerpts from the Geneva Convention.

Mateo: Forget it!

Timi: It says here, that no prisoner should be treated inhumanly.

Mateo: All right, all right. You can rest for three minutes.

[they both stop and the Timi sits down by a tree]

Timi: What's your hurry?

Mateo: None your business.

[stares at his watch]

Mateo: [short cut scene of the oldest kid running under a giraffe]

Mateo: [still looking at his watch] 3 minutes.

[starts jeep up]

Timi: I'm pooped man.

Mateo: [doesn't listen and starts chasing Timi again. Suddenly, the Timi runs in another direction and a wild chase scene ensues]

Mateo: [yelling all sorts of crazy things] Stop that! You are my prisoner! I'm gonna report you to the Geneva convention!

[Mateo gets on the hood of his jeep and then a moment later Timi gets in the driver seat and taps on the Mateo's ankle who is unaware where the Timi is. Mateo double takes, and Timi slams on the brakes as Mateo goes flying making a wild yelp]

Mateo: You mustn't do that!

Timi: [smiles] March!

[Two soldiers both point a gun at each other at the same time. Cuban soldier then drops his gun]

Mateo: All right, I'm your goddamn prisoner!

Timi: I don't want you... You're a shitty prisoner.

Timi: You know why a compass has a mirror on the back?

Mateo: [turning the compass over to see the mirror] Why?

Timi: So you can see who's lost.

Xixo: [speaking in his own dialect to Dr. Ann Taylor and the two soldiers]

Dr. Ann Taylor: Follow him.

Timi: We low on gas.

Dr. Ann Taylor: Follow him.

Mateo: We low on gas.

Dr. Ann Taylor: [enunciating] Follow him.

Timi: [sighs, and follows Xixo]

Timi: [being chased by Mateo, opens a little book up and reads] Excerpts from the Geneva Convention.

Mateo: Forget it!

Timi: It says here, that no prisoner should be treated inhumanly.

Mateo: All right, all right. You can rest for three minutes.

[they both stop and Timi sits down by a tree]

Timi: What's your hurry?

Mateo: None your business.

[stares at his watch]

Mateo: [flash to a very short cut scene of the oldest kid running under a giraffe]

Mateo: [still looking at his watch] 3 minutes.

[starts jeep up]

Timi: I'm pooped man.

Mateo: [doesn't listen and starts chasing Timi again. Suddenly, Timi runs in another direction and a wild chase scene ensues]

Mateo: [yelling all sorts of crazy things] Hey! Stop that! You are my prisoner! I'm gonna report you to the Geneva convention!

[Mateo gets on the hood of his jeep and then a moment later the Timi gets in the driver seat and taps on the Mateo's ankle who is unaware where Timi is. Mateo double takes, and Timi slams on the brakes as the Mateo goes flying making a wild yelp]

Mateo: You mustn't do that!

Timi: [smiles] March!

Johnny: Are you in love with her?

Mateo: No... I'm in love with you. And I'm in love with your beautiful woman. And I'm in love with your kids. And I'm even in love with your unborn child. I'm even in love with your anger! I'm in love with anything that lives!

Mateo: When luck comes knocking on your door, you can't turn it away.

Mateo: You don't believe.

Johnny: In what? In God? I asked him a favor once. I asked him to take me instead of him. But he took both of us. And look what he put in my place.

Mateo: I'm an alien, like E.T., from a different planet. My skin is too sensitive for this Earth. The air is too hard for me.

Ariel: Are you going home like E.T.?

Mateo: I suppose I'm going home.

Christy, Ariel: Trick or treat!

Mateo: GO AWAY!

Ariel: What's your name?

Mateo: Mateo. What's yours?

Ariel: Ariel, hello.

Mateo: You the kids from upstairs?

Christy: Yeah.

Mateo: Is this Halloween?

Christy: Yeah.

Mateo: Hm. Where you from?

Christy: Ireland.

Mateo: You came all the way to America to trick or treat?

Mateo: This house is haunted, but it's not scary. It's a magic house.

Ariel: Frankie believed in magic.

Mateo: Who's that?

Ariel: Frankie. Our brother. He died.

Christy: He fell down some stairs when he was two. We thought he was okay... but there was something in his brain. A brain tumor. It was malignant.

Ariel: [to Mateo] Are you crying? Are you?

Ariel: It's okay, he's in Heaven now.

Mateo: What was Frankie like?

Johnny: A warrior.

Mateo: Maselu masela.

Johnny: What does that mean?

Mateo: A warrior who is not afraid to go to the other side.

Johnny: The other side of what?