[The Iron Giant is eating one of Dean's sculptures.] Dean
McCoppin: There are two kinds of metal in this yard: scrap
and art. If you gotta eat one of them, eat the scrap. uxm
What you currently have -- IN YOUR MOUTH!! -- is ART.
Dean McCoppin: If we don't stand up for the crazies, who
will?
The Iron Giant: No Atomo... I Superman!
Kent Mansley: The biggest thing in this town is probably
the homecoming queen.
The Iron Giant: I am not a gun.
Hogarth Hughes: Welcome to downtown Coolsville! Population:
us.
Hogarth Hughes: You are what you choose to be.
General Rogard: You'll be Chief Inspector of Subway Toilets
by the time I'm through with you!
Hogarth Hughes: I know you feel bad about the deer, but
it's not your fault. Things die. That's part of life. It's
bad to kill, but it's not bad to die. The Iron Giant: You
die? Hogarth Hughes: Well, yes, someday. The Iron Giant:
I die? Hogarth Hughes: I don't know. You're made of metal,
but you have feelings, and you think about things, and that
means you have a soul. And souls don't die. The Iron Giant:
Soul? Hogarth Hughes: Mom says it's something inside of
all good things, and that it goes on forever and ever. [Hogarth
leaves. The Iron Giant lays back to look at the stars.]
The Iron Giant: Souls don't die.
[A nuclear missile threatens Rockwell.] The Iron Giant:
I... fix. Hogarth Hughes: Giant? The Iron Giant: Hogarth,
you stay. I go. No following. Hogarth Hughes: I love you.
