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The Matrix is a film that greatly influenced creations of sci-fi that came after it, and it continues to do so to this day. It's difficult to find a work of sci-fi that doesn't have some element that could be tied back to The Matrix. Of course, it wasn't the first to do many of the things it's known for, but it certainly stands out for its execution.

When thinking back on this film that many grew up watching, one might think of the creepy AI creatures floating through the air like jellyfish, or perhaps of Neo dodging bullets in the style that the film so famously became associated with. What many remember most, however, are the many gems of dialogue that can be found in this iconic film.

10 Get Up, Trinity. Just Get Up.

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This scene in the start of the movie introduces the audience to Trinity's character, and what kind of person she is.

It's clear that she's skilled, but in the moment that she's being chased by the agents and finds herself frozen on the floor pointing a gun in anticipation of them, she reveals her humanity in the fact that she is afraid, but coaxes herself to keep going.

9 I Thought You Were A Guy. "Most Guys Do"

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Neo meets Trinity after she has guided him to "follow the white rabbit" and eventually runs into her at a nightclub. The film never overtly states any feminist allegiances, but it doesn't have to.

The actions of the characters and the makeup of the story speak for themselves, in that Trinity's gender is hardly ever mentioned again because her character demands respect through her mere presence.

8 You Are A Slave, Neo. Born Into Bondage.

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Neo has not yet taken the red pill. He listens to Morpheus explain that the world he lives in isn't what he thinks and that he is, in reality, leading a life that's been programmed for him.

All of this feels at this point as though it could be a way of metaphorical speaking--Neo finds out, of course, that it very much isn't.

7 Buckle Your Seatbelt, Dorothy

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The film uses familiar pop-culture references to further assert the atmosphere of the narrative they are aiming for.

Trinity implores Neo to "follow the white rabbit", Morpheus asks him if he wants to go further "down the rabbit hole", both references to Alice In Wonderland. And then Cypher switches it up by comparing Neo's departure from the matrix to Dorothy leaving Kansas--a trickier comparison, implying that Kansas was the false world and Oz the real one.

6 Rest, Neo. The Answers Are Coming.

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The words "answers" and "questions" are used a lot in the film, particularly in the first half. There is an emphasis on curiosity and the fact that Neo is an inquisitive person, which seems to set him aside from the norm.

Morpheus can sense Neo's need for answers, and admires and sympathizes with him in a way that reaches out to viewers and causes them to consider their own questions.

5 What Is Real?

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Neo can't wrap his head around the fact that his perceived reality, up until leaving the matrix, was all digital.

He runs his hands across an old leather chair, insisting that it feels real, leading to a conversation wherein Morpheus calls to question what counts as real if reality merely depends on the brain's perception of taste, smell, and touch.

4 The Mind Makes It Real.

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Despite it being a virtual reality, people in the matrix can still die. Neo wakes from his combat training to find that his mouth is bleeding as if his body was actually there during the fight.

Morpheus explains that the mind can die in the matrix, and in this case so can the body. This further asserts the movie's interest in the power of the mind, and how the mind ultimately determines one's reality.

3 After Nine Years, You Know What I Realize? Ignorance Is Bliss.

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Cypher's moment of eating dinner with Agent Smith allows the viewer to reflect on the quality of life inside the matrix versus outside. Cypher forsakes humanity for the opportunity to return to the matrix, knowing that the world there is technically not real.

However, as he eats his dinner, he acknowledges how the food tastes real and is much better than the grain meal they eat every day in reality--so what's more worthwhile?

2 It Is Not The Spoon That Bends. It Is Only Yourself.

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Neo's visit to the oracle lends in the opportunity to interact with other humans who have been awoken to the fact of the matrix. A child sits bending a spoon with their mind, and Neo joins them, intending to do the same.

The child reminds him of the fact that he isn't actually trying to bend the spoon, but that his mind must acknowledge the quality of his reality, stepping outside of it rather than taking for granted the options he's given being the only ones available.

1 The Perfect World Was A Dream That Your Primitive Cerebrum Kept Trying To Wake Up From

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Agent Smith's monologue on his opinion of humankind and how they adjusted to the takeover of Artificial Intelligence brings to the surface many of the same issues that affect humanity today.

One of the most fascinating observations his character supplies is that humankind depends on misery and suffering to define their lives, citing the fact that when the AI took over and tried to give humans a utopic virtual reality, their minds rejected it because they needed the contrast of discomfort to give life meaning.