“There’s few things I love more than scoring a bag of fireworks and spending an evening, alone or with company, lighting them. It feels exciting and fun and dangerous and youthful and awesome. I love the smell. I love watching a bottle rocket soar up into the sky and explode. And I love being the one who lit the fuse.” LoveFunSkyDangerousExcitementFireworksAwesomeFuseBottle Rocket Author:Aesop Rock
“Io, this is Admiral Muhan of the Martian Congressional Republic Navy. You fire anything bigger than a bottle rocket and we will glass the whole fucking moon. Do you read me?” MoonNuclear WeaponsMarsGlassIoBottle Rocket Book:Caliban’s War Source: Caliban’s War
“I love a lot of comedy movies. I think I fell in love with comedy when I was younger. My brother and I would always sit down and watch some of the classics. Bottle Rocket is one of my favorite comedies.” ThinkingWatchesComedyBrotherDown AndMy FavoriteMy BrotherBottlesRocketsComedy MovieBottle Rocket Author:Sarah Wright
“Women in bed are like Diesel engines. What I mean by that is, it may take them a while to get going, but when you do, they can go for a long, long time. Whereas men are like... bottle rockets.” MenMayMeanLongBedLong TimeBottlesEnginesRocketsDieselBottle Rocket Author:Jeff Foxworthy
“Oh, absolutely. James Caan was the first movie star I'd ever met, much less worked with. He was an important person to me and my brothers and Wes. Bottle Rocket was the first movie for all of us. As you know, back then, [Caan] was having some career changes, I think.” ThinkingKnowsFirstsPersonsImportantStarsCareersBrotherMetsMy BrotherBottlesMovie StarRocketsImportant PersonCareer ChangeBottle Rocket Author:Luke Wilson
“My roommate in college in Austin, Texas, was Wes Anderson. Wes always wanted to be a director. I was an English major in college, and he got us to work on a screenplay together. And then, in working on the screenplay, he wanted my brother, Luke, and me to act in this thing. We did a short film that was kind of a first act of what became Bottle Rocket.” FirstsKindWantedTogetherFilmCollegeBrotherDirectorsMajorsMy BrotherBottlesTexasRocketsScreenplaysLukeAustinRoommateShort FilmsEnglish MajorAustin TexasBottle Rocket Author:Owen Wilson
“After Bottle Rocket, I started getting acting work. People started offering me roles in movies. It wasn't something that I thought about as a kid growing up in Texas. Actually, maybe I would have thought of it as a possibility, but it seemed so crazily far-fetched to think that you could work in movies that I really didn't ever quite imagine it. It was just lucky.” PeopleThinkingKidsActingRolesGrowing UpGrowingImaginePossibilityLuckyBottlesTexasOfferingRocketsKids Growing UpBottle Rocket Author:Owen Wilson
“Imagination is the politics of dreams; imagination turns every word into a bottle rocket. . . . Imagine every day is Independence Day and save us from traveling the river changed; save us from hitchhiking the long road home. Imagine an escape. Imagine that your own shadow on the wall is a perfect door. Imagine a song stronger than penicillin. Imagine a spring with water that mends broken bones. Imagine a drum which wraps itself around your heart. Imagine a story that puts wood in the fireplace.” HeartLongStoriesHomeDreamSongTurnsWaterImaginationPerfectImagineDoorsChangedBrokenWallSpringShadowRiversStrongerIndependenceWoodsBonesBottlesImagine ThatWrapsRocketsIndependence DayFireplacesHitchhikingLong RoadPenicillinBroken BoneBottle Rocket Author:Sherman Alexie
“If you love your job, you haven't worked a day in your life.” IfsLifeFunnyJobsLove YouHavensHumorousEpicFunny LifeLove Your JobNeed A VacationBottle Rocket Author:Tommy Lasorda
“I'm a huge Wes Anderson fan. I literally love every single film. He hasn't made a bad film; I've seen every single one. They've all been brilliant, from 'Bottle Rocket' up to 'Moonrise Kingdom,' they've all been wonderful.” MadeFilmWonderfulFansHugeBrilliantKingdomsBottlesRocketsBottle Rocket Author:Saoirse Ronan