Romancing the Stone (1984)

Alfonso Arau: Juan

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Quotes 

• Juan : This guy who is following you, he is very persistent!

• 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] 

• 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.

• 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!

• 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]