Hunger features no-to-little dialogue through its 90-minute runtime, but despite these limits, writer/director Steve McQueen and co-writer Edna Walsh weren't stopped from creating a screenplay that included plenty of well-written, if not at time harrowing, exchanges.
- Bobby Sands: I have my belief, and in all its simplicity that is the most powerful thing.Father Dominic Moran: I want to know whether your intent is just purely to commit suicide here.
Sands: You want me to argue about the morality of what I'm about to do and whether it's really suicide or not? For one, you're calling it suicide. I call it murder - and that's just another wee difference between us two. We're both Catholic men, both Republicans. But while you were poaching salmon in beautiful Kilrea, we were being burnt out of our house in Rathcoole - similar in many ways, Dom, but life and experiences focused our beliefs differently. You understand me?
