Romancing the Stone (1984)
Alfonso Arau: Juan
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Quotes
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Juan : This guy who is following you, he is very persistent!
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Jack Colton : I understand you have a car. We would like to buy it or rent it, we need to get to a town.
Juan : What do you call this I'm living in, a pigsty?
Jack Colton : Oh, no this is great...
Juan : Hit the road.
Jack Colton : No, senor, see we...
Juan : Hit-the-road.
Jack Colton : But we...
Juan : [points a gun at him] Vaya con dios, gringo.
Jack Colton : [Jack and Joan back off and turn around, to find that all of Juan's men have pulled guns on them too] Okay, Joan Wilder, write us out of this one.
Juan : Joan Wilder... Joan Wilder? *The* Joan Wilder?
[lowering gun, opening door and walking out]
Juan : You are Joan Wilder, the novelist?
Joan Wilder : Well, yes, I am.
Juan : I read your books! I read all your books!
[turning to his men, in Spanish]
Juan : This is Joan Wilder, who writes the books I read to you on Saturdays!
Bad Hombre : [awestruck] Juanita... Juanita, it's Juanita!
[all the men put away their guns and wave enthusiastically]
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Joan Wilder : Can we get there in your car?
Juan : Who told you I had a car?
Joan Wilder : The men in the village.
Juan : They told you I had a car? They are such comedians. They meant my little mule: Pepe.
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Joan Wilder : What I would really like - would be a phone.
Juan : No. No. No. No. No phones. No phones. I hate phones. I don't have a phone. But, have a drink! Let's hang out!
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Juan : See that river?
Jack Colton : What, the one without the bridge?
Juan : This river is the main water supply for many villages.
Joan Wilder : What do you mean the one without the bridge?
Juan : It feeds right into the Amazon.
Jack Colton : The one without the bridge! Where the hell are you going?
Juan : To Lupe's Escape. I used it many times in the past.
[taking out a remote control and pressing a button, a bridge raises and the jeep jumps over the river]