Quotes
 Chuck Noland: I couldn`t even kill myself the way I wanted to. I had power over nothing. [Chuck talks to Wilson, the volleyball]
Chuck Noland: Hey, you want to hear something funny? My dentist`s name is James Spalding.
Chuck Noland: Aha. Look what I`ve created. I have made FIRE.
Chuck Noland: We might just make it. Did that thought ever cross your brain? Well regardless I would rather take my chance out there on the ocean, that to stay here and die on this shithole island spending the rest of my life talking to a god damn VOLLEYBALL.
Chuck Noland: WILSON.
Chuck Noland: You wouldn`t have a match by any chance would you?
Chuck Noland: We both had done the math. Kelly added it all up and... knew she had to let me go. I added it up, and knew that I had... lost her. `cos I was never gonna get off that island. I was gonna die there, totally alone. I was gonna get sick, or get injured or something. The only choice I had, the only thing I could control was when, and how, and where it was going to happen. So... I made a rope and I went up to the summit, to hang myself. I had to test it, you know? Of course. You know me. And the weight of the log, snapped the limb of the tree, so I-I - , I couldn`t even kill myself the way I wanted to. I had power over *nothing*. And that`s when this feeling came over me like a warm blanket. I knew, somehow, that I had to stay alive. Somehow. I had to keep breathing. Even though there was no reason to hope. And all my logic said that I would never see this place again. So that`s what I did. I stayed alive. I kept breathing. And one day my logic was proven all wrong because the tide came in, and gave me a sail. And now, here I am. I`m back. In Memphis, talking to you. I have ice in my glass... And I`ve lost her all over again. I`m so sad that I don`t have Kelly. But I`m so grateful that she was with me on that island. And I know what I have to do now. I gotta keep breathing. Because tomorrow the sun will rise. Who knows what the tide could bring?
Kelly Frears: I always knew you were alive, I knew it. Everybody said that I had to let you go. I love you. You`re the love of my life.
Chuck Noland: I love you too, Kelly. More than you`ll ever know.
Chuck Noland: First thing it`s two minutes, then four, then six, then the next thing you know, we`re the U.S. mail.
Chuck Noland: We live and we die by time. And we must not commit the sin of losing our track on time.
Chuck Noland: Gotta love crab. In the nick of time too. I couldn`t take much more of those coconuts. Coconut milk is a natural laxative. That`s something Gilligan never told us.
Chuck Noland: That`s a search area of 500,000 square miles. That`s twice the size of Texas. They may never find us.
Chuck Noland: Hey, HEY, It`s a ship. HEY. HEY. HEY SHIP. HEY. Wait, look look, S.O.S... Oh come on. HELP. Please.
Chuck Noland: Don`t worry Wilson, I`ll do all the paddling. You just hang on.
Chuck Noland: I`m always going to keep this watch on Memphis time. Kelly time.
Chuck Noland: I should`ve never gotten on that plane. I should`ve never gotten out of the car.
Chuck Noland: Hey, is all this turbulence from Santa and those 8 tiny reindeer?
Chuck Noland: We live and we die by the clock, that`s all we have.
Chuck Noland: Do, do you have to keep bringing that up, huh? Ok, so it was a good thing we did a test because it wasn`t going to be just a quick snap. Would`ve broken my neck, or leg or my back. Would`ve bled to death on the beach, but it`s in the past. It was what, a year ago? SO let`s just forget it.
Chuck Noland: If I`m here New Years Eve, then I`m here. If I`m not, I`m not.
Chuck Noland: So, let me get one thing straight here... We have a pro football team now, but they`re in Nashville?
Chuck Noland: I`ll be right back.
Kelly Frears: You said you`d be right back.
Chuck Noland: I`m so sorry.
Kelly Frears: Me too.
Stan: We buried you. There was a coffin, a gravestone... the whole thing.
Chuck Noland: I had a coffin?
[Stan nods]
Chuck Noland: Well what was in it?
Chuck Noland: Nickolai. Tick-tock. Tick-tock. Tick-tock.
[reading label on port-a-potty that has washed ashore]
Chuck Noland: Bakersfield? BAKERSFIELD! BAKERSFIELD!
Chuck Noland: [after seeing his "sail" fall over] This could work! This could work...
Chuck Noland: 87 hours is an eternity. The cosmos was created in less time.
[last lines]
Bettina Peterson: You look lost.
Chuck Noland: I do?
Bettina Peterson: Where`re you headed?
Chuck Noland: Well, I was just about to figure that out.
Bettina Peterson: Well, that`s 83 South. And this road here will hook you up with I-40 East. If you turn right, that`ll take you to Amarillo, Flagstaff, California. And if you head back that direction, you`ll find a whole lot of nothing all the way to Canada.
Chuck Noland: I got it.
Bettina Peterson: All right, then. Good luck, cowboy.
Chuck Noland: Thank You.
Chuck Noland: Hello! Anybody?
Chuck Noland: [to Kelly] You need to go home
Trivia
Production was halted for a year so Tom Hanks could lose fifty pounds and grow out his hair for his time spent on the deserted island. During this hiatus, Robert Zemeckis used the same crew to film What Lies Beneath (2000).
The license plate on Chuck`s car reads: KAZ 2AY.
Virtually all the sound, including dialog, in the scenes on the island - about an hour and a half of screen time - had to be replaced in post-production. Sound man William B. Kaplan made a valiant attempt at getting usable sound on the island, but the nearby surf made it impossible, given that many of the scenes needed to be very quiet.
Actual lines of dialogue were written for Wilson the Volleyball, to help Hanks have a more natural interaction with the inanimate object.
Most of the nighttime scenes on the island (except the creation of fire scene) were shot during the daytime. The darkness and night sky effects were added in post-production.
Some of the `desert island` footage was shot on the mainland with a highway in the background that had to be removed.
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# Alan Silvestri wrote 24 minutes of score (including over seven minutes for the final credits) for a 143-minute film. Aside from the Russian chorus and the Elvis song from the beginning, there is not one single note of written musical score in the film until Noland leaves the island (1 hour and 43 minutes into the movie). Only then does the musical score come in: an oboe, piano and strings are all that Silvestri uses. Every musical cue is a variation on the same melody, which is heard in full at the end.
In the scene where Noland squats on the ground, contemplating an item that has washed up on shore, the shot is composed as an homage to 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968), reportedly Tom Hanks` favorite film.
When Noland reaches the top of the mountain, his stick and headgear is an homage to the The Ten Commandments (1956).
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# In the scene where Hanks` character builds a fire, he celebrates by setting a palm branch on fire. Upon seeing the "fireflies" that are created, Hanks quotes directly from a scene in The Right Stuff (1983) when Ed Harris` John Glenn sees similar "fireflies" from Friendship Seven.
The movie was produced by Image Movers and Playtone. Playtone is Tom Hanks` own production company and was the name of the record label that his character worked for in That Thing You Do! (1996).
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# Robert Zemeckis was asked at a Q&A session at USC what was in the unopened packaged. He replied that it was a waterproof, solar-powered, satellite phone. To hear him say it for yourself on the DVD, do this: Start at the Special Features Main Menu and enter the Video & Stills Galleries. When you see "Raft Escape" press left on your remote to highlight the "World Of Time" logo.
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# DVD easter egg. On the second disc of the 2-disc edition of the DVD, select "Video and Stills Galleries". Highlight "Raft Escape" on the next menu, and press LEFT on your remote. An icon of yellow and blue wings appears. Play this to hear Robert Zemeckis say what is in the FedEx package that is never opened in the film.
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# An early draft of the script had Chuck having two different personalities talking to each other, Good Chuck and Bad Chuck.
Fred Smith, founder and owner of FedEx, makes a cameo appearance in the film.
Several scenes are in reference to the "The Prisoner" (1967) episode "Many Happy Returns," in which Number Six, after building a makeshift raft to take him from the Village, washes ashore.
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# On the plane ride home, Chuck is offered a cup of ice, and Dr. Pepper. An obvious reference and nod to the previous Zemeckis/Hanks project Forrest Gump (1994).
If you simply take the initial from Chuck`s name and add it to his surname it reads `C. Noland` or "see no land".
Contrary to popular belief, FedEx did not pay the filmmakers anything for their presence in the movie. The director has made this clear in a number of interviews.
One of the three volleyballs used in the film was sold in an auction for $18,400.
The production employed several local Fiji islanders in the surrounding archipelago, including the neighboring Mana Island about a mile away. The locals were allowed to keep some of the supplies and tools as tokens of their help.
The scene in which Noland is talking with Stan by the fireplace of Stan`s home is shot in 1 long take, with the camera rotating slowly around Noland (Hanks). The shot lasts 3 minutes and 46 seconds.
The moment before Chuck removes his tooth in the cave, he tells Wilson his dentist in Memphis is called "Dr. James Spalding". In the German version anyway, the German voice of Noland says "Dr. James Volley", maybe because only a few in Germany are familiar with the American label "Spalding".
In the film, Chuck draws a picture of Kelly (`Helen Hunt`) on the wall of the cave. In the movie As Good as It Gets (1997), Simon Bishop tells Carol Connelly (also played by Hunt) `you`re the reason cavemen chiseled on walls`.
The paper that Chuck writes his note to Bettina Peterson is stationary from "Arrington Ranch" (a cattle ranch resort) that is the actual house where Chuck leaves the letter.
SPOILER: Near the end of the movie, Kelly explains to Chuck that the NFL team, the Houston Oilers, are now the Tennessee Titans and made it to the Superbowl the year before only to lose the game by 1 yard. This is in reference to Superbowl XXXIV (Superbowl 34; January 30, 2000) where the Tennesse Titans played the St. Louis Rams and lost 23-16. The final play of the game involved Titans wide receiver Kevin Dyson receiving a pass from Titans quarterback Steve McNair but then being tackled 1 yard short of the end-zone which could have potentially tied the game (if Tennessee opted for the extra point) or won the game (if Tennessee proceeded with the 2-point conversion). This play has now been widely known as "The Tackle".
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Helen Hunt
(as Kelly Frears)
with Tom Hanks
(as Chuck Noland)
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