No safety zone

"You will all be caught with your diapers down. That's a promise. I make you this promise on my mother's head, or right here, today, standing on the very head of my mother, which is our God Green Earth, which anybody who wasn't born in a fucking sewer ought to know and understand to the very marrow of their bones.

They will invade you in your beds, they will snap you from your hot-tubs, they will pluck you right out from your fancy sports cars. There is nowhere, absolutely nowhere in this godforsaken valley. I'm talking about from the range of my voice, right here, clear out to the goddam Mojave Desert and beyond that, clear out past Barstow and everywhere else in the valley all the way to Arizona.

None of that area will be called a Safety Zone. There will be no Safety Zone. I can guarantee you the Safety Zone will be eliminated, erradicated. You will all be extradicted to the land of no return. It's a navigation to nowhere. And if you think that's going to be fun, you got another thing coming.

I may be a slimebucket, but believe me, I know what the Hell I am talking about. I'm not crazy. And don't say I didn't warny you. I warned you. I warned all of you."


Paris, Texas. Directed by Wim Wenders. Written by Sam Shepard.