Major quotes from Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex

[To Togusa] If you’ve got time to be depressed, why not grace us with your special talents?

If you let AIs handle everything, even the mice will outsmart you.

[after being chased down by the Major] You people are cops?! Now I know there’s no hope for justice in the system!

If you’ve got a problem with the world, change yourself. If that's a problem, close your eyes, shut your mouth, and live like a hermit. And if that’s a problem… [cocks gun and presses it against his head]

This next footage is of the Minister and a geisha going into the bathroom.

Aramaki

With a geisha?

Apparently, he sometimes likes to swap bodies with geishas when he gets drunk.

Togusa, meet up with the Chief at Kenbishi. Find out what caused the tank to go haywire. Batou and I will herd the runaway tank with the six Tachikomas.

Batou

Gee, you get all the action…

Don’t come crying to me if that tank blows you to hell.

[upon seeing the larger tank] Wow.

Don’t get so googly-eyed that you wander into its field of fire! Let’s go!

Batou

I know we don’t stand a chance against it, but being totally ignored like this ticks me off.

Care to head around in front of it, then?

Batou

I’m kidding.

Batou

Son of a bitch. He hated his parents that much?

No. It was just for a split second, but I felt something when I burned out Kago’s brain. “Well, Mom? What do you think of me in my steel body?” It was a strange sensation. It wasn’t pride… Or vengeance.

Batou

Forget about it. It was just a hallucination.

I hope so. There’s no way we’ll ever know for sure now.

[entering the chatroom] So I've heard that this is a place where one can find out more about the Laughing Man.

You betcha!

What do you think?

I have to admit, for a movie it wasn't bad- but diversionary entertainment is transitory, it just comes and goes at the viewers whim. It's the way it should be, but a film with no beginning or end that hooks an audience and won't let go of them is harmful no matter how wonderful you may have believed it was.

Ohh, you're a tough critic. Are you saying that we members of the audience have a reality to which we should return?

Yes I am.

For some who sit and watch the film, misery will be waiting for them the instant they go back to reality. You're willing to accept responsibility for depriving these people of their dreams?

No, I'm not. But dreams are meaningful when you work toward them in the real world. If you merely live within the dreams of other people it's no different from being dead.

You're a realist.

If a romantic escapes from reality, then yes.

A strong girl you are. If the reality you believe in ever comes about, you give me a call. When it happens, that's the time we'll leave this theatre.

[When Motoko gets into bed that night] I have a question. When you're full prosthetic, can you have sex?

care to find out?