How we cite our quotes: All quotations are from Time Bandits.
Quote #1
VINCENT: I could scarce restrain the rushing of my feet! These 12 long years have been like chains abound me!
PANSY: Oh...oh, and the personal problem?
VINCENT: Oh, much, much better.
Personal problems aside, Vincent is expressing one of the film's big themes: time is a prison, and the map provides an escape. Imagine if he could have gone back 12 years to be with his love.
Quote #2
KEVIN: Do you know where we are?
RANDALL: Of course I do...1796, Battle of Castiglione. See?
STRUTTER: Are you sure we're not in somebody's bedroom?
This is one of the points when a specific time is treated as a specific place, a destination instead of a state of being. Heavy. Question: is time a location? Better hit up some relativity theory to get the 411 on that.