Quotes
 Justin: I enjoy taking indefensible positions and creating an argument for them. Richard: Please, that chick spreads like peanut butter.
Cassie: Welcome to Homicide.
Cassie: You get one life, and whatever you do with it, and whatever is done to you, you`ve got to face that. You can`t pretend it didn`t happen.
Richard: I`m the only person who really cares about you... You know, I think I`m the only person who sees how incredible you really are.
Richard: Man cannot live freely without embracing suicide and crime.
Justin: A pact made with relentless fire that says, while some live, others must die.
Cassie: Do you know why they call me the hyena?
Sam: No, why do they?
Cassie: Female hyenas have a kind of mock penis. You figure it out.
Sam: Does that bother you?
Cassie: No, I just wear loose-fitting slacks, it`s really not a problem.
Sam: He doesn`t fit the profile.
Cassie: The profile doesn`t fit the profile.
Cassie: Look it`s not just about sex, okay? I really respect you as a person.
[laughs]
Cap. Rod Cody: You`re supposed to identify yourself with the murderer, not the victim.
Sam: What are you doing?
Cassie: It`s called sex. It`s fun, you should try it.
Richard: [listening to loud rock music] Hey, Lisa! Wanna ride?
Lisa Mills: We already did that, Richard.
Richard: Oh, come on. That`s not what I`m talking about.
[starts dancing]
Richard: Come on, it`s fun in here.
[Lets go of the steering wheel]
Richard: You want me to beg? Please.
Lisa Mills: You`re gonna get in an accident!
Richard: I don`t - please! I don`t care.
Richard: Come on.
Cassie: Fine then, what do you want?
Sam: Right now? This.
Justin: You were going to sit here and watch me kill myself.
Cassie: Can you do me a favor? Lean over and whisper something in my ear.
Sam: [whispering] You know what I said about getting different partners.
Cassie: Are you serious?
Sam: [still whispering] I take that back.
Cassie: Did you find the videotape?
[Sam nods]
Cassie: It`s a freakin` baboon hair!
Justin: We have to pay for what we did.
Cassie: Richard, what are you doing here?
Richard: What are you doing here? Do you want something?
Cassie: Like what?
Richard: I don`t know... Everybody wants something.
Cassie: Is that right?
Richard: They just don`t know how to ask for it.
Cassie: And what do you want?
[first lines]
Richard: Shall we say the words one last time?
Justin: One cannot live fully without embracing suicide in crime.
Richard: Say it.
Justin: A pact made with relentless fire that requires that, while some live, others die.
Richard: On three...
in unison: One, two, three
[gun shot]
Justin: Each of us has within us a weak aspect, eager to give up freedom for the comfort of being dominated. But we also have a will to power that desires freedom - that insists on deciding for ourselves, each of us, individually, what is good, and what is evil.
Justin: All real freedom risks crime. Indeed, freedom *is* crime, because it thinks first of itself and not of the group.
Richard: You can`t get fingerprints off of skin.
Justin: You can with a magna brush, or a print camera, or an iodine gun and silver transfer sheets.
Trivia
Henry Bean, who also directed Ryan Gosling in The Believer (2001), did several uncredited re-writes on this film.
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# In one scene, the camera pans briefly across a cinema that is showing The Bitter Tea of General Yen (1933). That film was directed by Frank Capra whose grandson, Frank Capra III is first assistant director of this film.
The characters Richard Haywood and Justin Pendleton are loosely based on real-life murderers, Richard Loeb and Nathan Leopold.
The old lodge on the bluff was constructed especially for the movie and was torn down after filming was completed. The interior scenes were shot on a set.
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# Richard`s car, a Mustang, is the same type of car driven by Steve McQueen in Bullitt (1968). Ryan Gosling suggested that the car be used, as he is a fan of McQueen.
The scene near the end of the movie, where Ryan Gosling licks Sandra Bullock`s face, was not scripted. After a few takes, Gosling asked Bullock if it would be okay if he added it in to prove his character`s sick nature.
Todd Field`s role as a murder suspect was deleted from the final print.
Ryan Gosling threw up as he filmed the murdering scenes.
The high school scenes were originally slated to be filmed at San Luis Obispo High School. The superintendent changed his mind before filming could take place due to the content of the script.
On the face of the clock seen in front of the police station, it says, "Spend Time With Those You Love".
The title refers to the song "Murder by Numbers," written by `Sting` and Andy Summers and performed by The Police, about planning the perfect murder.
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Sandra Bullock
(as Cassie Mayweather | Jessica Marie Hudson)
with Ryan Gosling
(as Richard Haywood)
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