Masked and Anonymous (2003)

Val Kilmer: Animal Wrangler

Quotes 

• Animal Wrangler : If I see a crack in the sidewalk, it's more beautiful to me than any human being. A crack in the mud at the bottom of a sun dried lake, I count them more beautiful than any human being. You know what I mean?

  Jack Fate : I know what you mean. Kinda like a curse, isn't it? Bein' born.

  Animal Wrangler : You got that right. Yeah, cause we live in fear. Cause we know we're gonna die. Animals don't know they're gonna die. They got no fear. They live. Content. In the moment. It holds us back. Knowledge of death. I say, amazing grace, in deed.

• Animal Wrangler : I avoid looking at human beings. They disgust me so much with all their atom bombs and blow dryers and automobiles. They build hospitals as shrines to the diseases they create. Human beings, alone with their secrets, masked and anonymous, no one truly knows them.

• Jack Fate : Beautiful animals.

  Animal Wrangler : I'll thank you. But it's God that deserves the credit. They won't have time to bother with success or gettin' rich. They don't have fantasies of glory. They don't borrow money to buy things that decrease in value while they own it. You see, they're beautiful 'cause they just are. They do what they do. A lion don't try to be a tiger. A rabbit don't try to do an impression of a monkey. They don't try to be what they're not. Unlike us. Us human beings. The cheetah, the tiger, the snake, the monkey, the baboon, the muskrat, the bobcat, the pig that's fat, the hippo, the rhino, the dodo, the honey badger... Each one, each perfect - in their original forms. Then, man came in. Who created him and for what purpose? It's still a mystery. Why is he here? It's a mystery. We know he's trespassin'. Doesn't know his own place. Of course he doesn't know his place, he don't have one. Man, the bear hunter, the fur trapper, the deer chaser. Then, the beer hunter, the deer trapper, the man - the bear hunter, the the fur trapper, the man - the deer chaser, the baby seal clubber, the dolphin snagger, the lowest form in existence. Lowest form of existence. He's a rabble-rouser, he's a stirrer-upper, agitator, goes around stickin' his nose where it don't belong. The zoo, the aquarium, they are - they are the prisons for the animals. These animals cannot learn anything from mankind. Man doesn't have - man don't have a thing to teach them.

• Animal Wrangler : I'll. tell you something else. Ancient cultures, civilizations, they used to sacrifice animals, like cattle and rabbits and goats and such, instead of human beings. Now, today, we do it the other way around, we sacrifice the human being. Like the like the Incas, like the Aztecs, like the big corporations.