Quotes
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Elliot: He`s a man from outer space and we`re taking him to his spaceship.
Greg: Well, can`t he just beam up?
Elliot: This is *reality*, Greg.
E.T.: E.T. phone home.
Michael: Did you explain school to him?
Elliot: How do you explain school to higher intelligence?
Michael: Maybe he`s not that smart. Maybe he`s like a worker bee who only knows how to push buttons or something.
Elliot: [knowingly] He`s so smart.
Michael: Okay, I just hope we don`t wake up on Mars or something surrounded by millions of these little squashy guys.
Michael: Maybe it was an iguana.
Elliot: It was *no* iguana.
Michael: Maybe, um - You know how they say there are alligators in the sewers?
Gertie: Alligators in the sewers.
Mary: All we`re trying to say is, maybe you just probably imagined it. It happened...
Elliot: I couldn`t have imagined it!
Michael: Maybe it was a pervert or a deformed kid or something.
Gertie: A deformed kid.
Michael: [mockingly] Maybe an elf or a leprechaun.
Elliot: It was nothing like that, penis-breath!
Mary: [laughs in shock] *Elliott!* Sit down.
Michael: Maybe an elf or a leprechaun.
Elliot: It was nothing like that, penis breath!
Mary: If you ever see it again, whatever it is, don`t touch it, just call me and we`ll have somebody come and take it away.
Gertie: Like the dogcatcher?
Elliot: But they`ll give it a lobotomy or do experiments on it or something.
Michael: Maybe he`s some animal that wasn`t supposed to live. Could be a monkey or an orangutan.
Elliot: A bald monkey?
Gertie: Is he a pig? He sure eats like one.
Elliot: You could be happy here, I could take care of you. I wouldn`t let anybody hurt you. We could grow up together, E.T.
Keys: Elliot, that machine, what does it do?
Elliot: The communicator? Is it still working?
Keys: It`s doing *something*. What?
Elliot: I really shouldn`t tell. He came to me, he came to me.
Keys: Elliot, he came to me too. I`ve been wishing for this since I was 10 years old, I don`t want him to die. What can we do that we`re not already doing?
Elliot: He needs to go home, he`s calling his people, and I don`t know where they are, and he needs to go home.
Keys: Elliot, I don`t think he was left here intentionally, but his being here is a miracle, Elliot. It`s a miracle and you did the best that anybody could do. I`m glad he met you first.
Michael: [imitating Elliot] I found him, he belongs to me!
Elliot: You must be dead, because I don`t know how to feel. I can`t feel anything anymore.
Tyler: [to Elliott] Douche bag.
Mary: [hits him on the head] No `douche bag` talk in my house!
Mary: A pizza? Who said you guys could order a pizza?
Tyler: We made it! Oh shit!
Michael: [as Yoda] You have absolute power! Eerrp!
Elliot: What do I do?
Michael: I don`t know. You have absolute power, remember?
Michael: We`re all going to die and they`re never going to give me my license!
Michael: Where`s the playground?
Elliot: It`s near the preschool!
Michael: Where`s that?
Elliot: I don`t know streets! Mom always drives me!
Michael: Son of a bitch.
Elliott: I`m keeping him.
[Mary hits E.T. with the refrigerator door]
Gertie: Here he is.
Mary: [absently] Here`s who?
Gertie: The man from the moon. But I think you`ve killed him already.
[after E.T. learns how to talk]
Mary: Gertie, I have to go pick up Elliot. Will you be a good girl and stay...
Gertie: Mama, he can talk!
Mary: [thinking she meant Elliot] Of course he can talk. I`ll be right back in ten minutes. Stay there.
Elliot: I`ll believe in you all my life.
[last lines]
E.T.: Come...
Elliot: Stay...
E.T.: Ouch.
Elliot: Ouch.
E.T.: I`ll... be... right... here.
Elliot: ...bye.
E.T.: Be good.
E.T.: [touching heart, about to leave] Ouuuuch!
[first lines]
Steve: [reading dice] Five.
Michael: Oh, great.
Steve: So you got an arrow right in your chest.
E.T.: [steps on a bathroom scale, it reads 35 lbs]
Elliot: 35 pounds? You`re fat!
[having Elliot order the pizza so he can get in the game]
Greg: And plenty of sausages and pepperonis!
Tyler: Everything but the little fishies.
E.T.: [saying good-bye] Beeeeeee... gooood.
Gertie: [tearfully] Yes.
[watching Elliott`s house under quarantine after E.T.`s death]
Steve: Something`s happening.
Greg: [sarcastically] Ooh, they`re gonna die.
Tyler: Shut up, Greg.
Steve: Something is definitely happening.
Mary: Michael, please do the dishes
Michael: I set and cleared
Elliot: *I* set and cleared
Michael: [quickly] I did breakfast
Gertie: I did breakfast
Mary: [Mary slams a pot down on the sideboard]
Elliot: But, look, you can`t tell. Not even Mom.
Gertie: Why not?
Elliot: Because, uh, grown-ups can`t see him. Only little kids can see him.
Gertie: Give me a break!
Elliot: [Transylvanian accent] Well, do you know what`s going to happen if you do tell?
[Elliott grabs Gertie`s doll and throw it to Michael]
Elliot: Do it, Mike, we have to.
[Gertie begs the doll back as Elliott and Michael make sounds out of the doll until they finally stop]
Elliot: [to Gertie] Promise?
Gertie: Yes.
Elliot: [to Michael] Promise?
[Michael nods]
Michael: I`ve never driven foward before!
Gertie: I don`t like his feet.
Elliot: They`re only feet, you little twerp.
Elliot: [upon encountering ET, running excitedly into the house] Mom, Mom! There`s something out there!
Mary: What?
Elliot: It`s in the toolshed. It threw the ball at me.
[Michael and his friends mock him loudly]
Elliot: QUIET!
[Michael`s friends go silent]
Elliot: [in hushed tone] Nobody go out there!
Michael: [the boys all spring up excitedly] Ha! Ha! Ha!
[they grab knives]
Mary: Stop, now! You guys stay right here!
Michael: You stay here, Mom, we`ll check it out!
Mary: And put those knives back!
[Elliot grabs her hands and pulls her outside as well]
Mary: Okay, Elliott!
Tyler: [sarcastically] Hey, Elliott, where`s your goblin?
Michael: Shut up.
Steve: Did he come back?
Pretty Young Girl: Hi, Elliott.
Greg: Well, did he?
Elliot: Yeah, he came back, but he`s not a goblin. He`s a spaceman.
Steve: Ooh, as in extra-terrestrial!
Tyler: Where is he from, Uranus? Get it? Your anus?
Greg: He doesn`t get it, Ty.
Tyler: Get it, your anus?
Greg: He doesn`t get it.
Elliot: You`re so immature!
Greg: And you`re such a cintus suprimus!
Elliot: Zero charisma!
Greg: Cintus suprimus!
Elliot: Zero charisma!
Greg: Cintus suprimus!
Elliot: Shut up, Greg!
Greg: Cintus suprimus!
Elliot: Zero charisma!
Greg: You wimp!
Elliot: [seeing she has costumed E.T] Oh, God!
E.T.: Elliott.
Elliot: [still too frustrated to notice he just spoke to him] What?
E.T.: Elliott!... Elliott!
Gertie: I taught him how to talk. He can talk now.
[Elliott sees electronics and supplies together in the closet]
Gertie: Look what he brought up here all by himself. What`s he need this stuff for?
Elliot: E.T., can you say that? Can you say `E.T.`? E.T.
E.T.: E.T.
Elliot: Aha!
E.T.: E.T.! E.T.! E.T.! Be good.
Gertie: "Be good"! I taught him that too!
Elliot: Maybe you should give him his dignity. This is the most ridiculous thing I`ve ever seen.
E.T.: [gives Elliott a newspaper and points at a comic picture] Phone.
Elliot: `Phone`? He said `phone`? He said `phone`?
Gertie: Can`t you understand English? He said `phone`. He watns to call somebody.
Gertie: What are you going as on Halloween? I`m going as a cowgirl
Elliot: [Elliot is upset because nobody believes him]
Elliot: [glumly] So what else is new?
Michael: [to Elliott] Why don`t you go as a goblin?
Elliot: [flatly] Shut up.
Trivia
At the auditions, Henry Thomas thought about the day his dog died to express sadness. Director Steven Spielberg cried, and hired him on the spot.
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# Harrison Ford played the school principal, but his only scene was cut as Steven Spielberg considered his presence would be too distracting. Ford`s wife Melissa Mathison wrote the screenplay.
ET`s face was modeled after poet Carl Sandburg, Albert Einstein and a pug dog.
ET`s communicator actually worked, and was constructed by Henry Feinberg, an expert in science and technology interpretation for the public.
Steven Spielberg shot most of the film from the eye-level of a child to further connect with Elliot and E.T.
Steven Spielberg shot the film in chronological order to invoke a real response from the actors (mainly the children) when E.T. departed at the end. All emotional responses from that last scene are real.
In the Halloween scene, when a child dressed as Yoda from Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back (1980) walks by and catches E.T.`s eye, a snatch of composer John Williams` Yoda theme is heard.
The extraterrestrial`s plant collection includes a triffid (from The Day of the Triffids (1962)).
When E.T. watches John Ford`s The Quiet Man (1952) on the family TV, composer John Williams quotes a few bars from the `Victor Young (I)` score as John Wayne embraces Maureen O`Hara.
Steven Spielberg personally screened his film at the White House for Ronald Reagan and `Nancy Reagan` (av).
When the film was released on video in the U.S., the cassette was made from green plastic as a measure to confound video pirates.
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# When it was test-screened at the Cannes Film Festival as an unofficial entry, it brought the house down, receiving a standing ovation that had eluded most of the official entries.
E.T. riding in the basket on Elliot`s bicycle flying in front of the moon has become the trademark image of Amblin Entertainment.
Michael Jackson owns one of the E.T. puppets.
One of the movie clips E.T. watches on TV is from This Island Earth (1955).
The script was written on the location of Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981) during filming breaks. Steven Spielberg dictated the story to Melissa Mathison because she was a screenwriter and because she was there to be with her husband at the time, Harrison Ford.
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# Steven Spielberg is reported to have spent $100,000 digitally removing guns from the 2002 20th Anniversary re-release of the movie. He regretted using the scene and said he would remove it if he ever re-issued the film.
Besides Yoda appearing in the Halloween scene, various Star Wars toys appear in Elliot`s room. Star Wars creator George Lucas returns the favor by adding E.T.s in Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace (1999).
Almost 10% of the surprisingly low $10.5 million budget went on the alien creature puppets and related animatonics.
Elliot`s last name is never mentioned.
With the exception of Elliot`s mom, no adults` faces are shown until the last half of the film.
Peter Coyote`s character`s (Keys) real name is never revealed.
This script was being developed at Columbia at the same time as another script about an alien visitation. The studio did not want to make both, so the head of the studio had to choose which film to make; he decided to let ET go and make Starman (1984).
The song sung by Michael (Elliott`s brother) when he is looking in the fridge is "Accidents Will Happen" by Elvis Costello.
Steven Spielberg stated in an interview that E.T. was a plant-like creature, and neither male or female.
Debra Winger not only provided the temp voice for E.T. but also played one of the ghouls in the Halloween sequence. She is wearing a monster mask and a lab coat and carries a poodle.
Was voted the 20th Greatest Film of all time by Entertainment Weekly.
The gag where the mother looks in the closet and sees the alien surrounded by toys was dreamed up by Robert Zemeckis.
Steven Spielberg`s original concept was for a much darker movie in which a family was terrorized in their house by aliens. When Spielberg decided to go with a more benevolent alien, the family-in-jeopardy concept was recycled as Poltergeist (1982).
At the 20th anniversary re-release premier, John Williams conducted a live orchestra as the film played, much like an orchestra would do for a stage musical.
James Taylor wrote a song intended for use in the movie called "Song For You". The song was ultimately not used in the movie. However, it was eventually recorded in the mid 1980`s for release on his `That`s Why I`m Here` album.
Was the highest-grossing movie of all time until Star Wars (1977) was re-released in 1997.
Voted number 1 in channel 4`s (UK) "Greatest Family Films"
Director Trademark: [Steven Spielberg] [music]
Though many have suggested that the film contains elements of Christian allegory, director Steven Spielberg says any parallels are strictly coincidental. Furthermore, Spielberg adds that if he ever made a Christian allegory, his mother, a devout Jew would probably never forgive him.
Director Trademark: [Steven Spielberg] [father] Elliot`s father deserts the family to go to Mexico with Sally.
The role of Mary, the children`s mother, was first offered to Shelley Long but she had already signed to film Night Shift (1982) and was forced to decline.
Foley Artist John Roesch said he used a wet T-shirt crammed with jello to simulate the noise of E.T.`s waddling walk.
Michael Jackson recorded the theme song "Someone in the Dark". It was never used, but can be heard on the E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial Story Book Album, narrated by Jackson. This boxed set included an LP, a book to read along with it and a poster of E.T. and Jackson. It was produced by Quincy Jones. In fact, release of the ET album delayed the release of another album Jackson had recorded. The record company did not want the two albums released at the same time so they would not compete against each other. The other album was "Thriller".
Steven Spielberg worked simultaneously on both this film and Poltergeist (1982) in 1982, and both were made to compliment each other. This represented suburban dreams, and "Poltergeist" represented suburban nightmares.
The working title for the film was "A Boy`s Life". It was changed during production.
Steven Spielberg and Melissa Mathison came up with the concept of a sequel called "Nocturnal Fears", where Elliott and his friends are kidnapped by aliens and E.T. would help them out. E.T.`s name would be Zreck, and his species was at war with the other aliens.
2006: Ranked #6 on the American Film Institute`s 100 Most Inspiring Movies of All Time.
Ranked #3 on the American Film Institute`s list of the 10 greatest films in the genre "Sci-Fi" in June 2008.
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# The origin of E.T. lies within Steven Spielberg`s abandoned science-fiction horror thriller "Night Skies", which was to be directed by cartoonist `Ron Cobb (I)`, written by John Sayles, with special effects by Rick Baker. Spielberg eventually dropped the evil aliens and had only a good alien in the final film.
Steven Spielberg liked John Williams` music for the bicycle chase sequence so much that he actually changed the scenes to fit the music. This is rarely ever done as the music is always done to coincide with the scene.
ET`s voice was performed by `Pat Welsh (I)`, with help from Debra Winger and director Steven Spielberg.
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# The young actors (Henry Thomas, Drew Barrymore and Robert MacNaughton) found the ET puppet`s eyes too far apart to comfortably look ET in the eye when they had to act with it. The actors solved the problem themselves by selecting a single eye to look at for every scene.
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# John Sayles wrote a semi-sequel to Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977) called `Night Skies`, about a group of hostile aliens that come to Earth and lay siege to an isolated farmhouse where a terrified family has barricaded itself inside. Spielberg decided not to go ahead with the rather dark project, but a subplot about the relationship between the lone good alien and an autistic boy inspired him to redevelop the concept as `E.T.: The Extra Terrestrial".
E.T. provided the inspiration for Neil Diamond`s song "Heartlight" but no mention is ever made of the movie in the lyrics.
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