Chicken is a 1996 New Zealand film written and directed by Grant Lahood. It was his debut feature after a series of short films. It was the first New Zealand feature film of the year. It commenced shooting in Wellington in July 1995. It had a Wellington premier on Monday 29 April before opening nationally on Friday.

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Notable quotes

“Chickens may be capable of affection or loyalty or maybe even pride, but if so, they feel these feelings in an ancient and birdlike way, like glassy-eyed visitors from another world.”
— Ira Glass, The Fairest Fowl: Portraits of Championship Chickens, cited in Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson, The Pig Who Sang to the Moon: The Emotional World of Farm Animals (New York: Ballantine, 2004), ch. 2, p. 58
“They are very frightening for me because their stupidity is so flat. You look into the eyes of a chicken and you lose yourself in a completely flat, frightening stupidity. They are like a great metaphor for me... I kind of love chicken, but they frighten me more than any other animal.”
— Werner Herzog, on the Signs of Life (1968) DVD audio commentary (2005)
“Then there are those proverbial “bird brains” of the barnyard, chickens, surely the most maligned and abused animal on the face of the earth, and—just as surely—among the brightest, most social birds we'll find anywhere. ... Chickens not only are capable of learning, they are also capable of teaching one another. It turns out that chickens are not as dumb as popular mythology makes them out to be.”
— Tom Regan, Empty Cages: Facing the Challenge of Animal Rights (Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2004), ch. 6, p. 105
“Jack, how agrees the devil and thee about thy soul, that thou soldest him on Good Friday last for a cup of Madeira and a cold capon’s leg?”
— William Shakespeare, Henry IV, Part 1 (c. 1597), act I, sc. ii
“The worst torture to which a battery hen is exposed is the inability to retire somewhere for the laying act. For the person who knows something about animals it is truly heart-rending to watch how a chicken tries again and again to crawl beneath her fellow-cage mates to search there in vain for cover.”
— Konrad Lorenz, "Animals are Sentient Beings: Konrad Lorenz on Instinct and Modern Factory Farming", in Der Spiegel (17 November 1980); as quoted in "Scientists and Experts on Battery Cages and Laying Hen Welfare", Humanesociety.org (Archived 27 August 2010)
“I am a vegetarian for health reasons—the health of the chicken.”
— Isaac Bashevis Singer, quoted in Richard H. Schwartz, Judaism and Vegetarianism (New York: Lantern Books, 2001), p. 177

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Notable quotes

“Chickens may be capable of affection or loyalty or maybe even pride, but if so, they feel these feelings in an ancient and birdlike way, like glassy-eyed visitors from another world.”
— Ira Glass, The Fairest Fowl: Portraits of Championship Chickens, cited in Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson, The Pig Who Sang to the Moon: The Emotional World of Farm Animals (New York: Ballantine, 2004), ch. 2, p. 58
“They are very frightening for me because their stupidity is so flat. You look into the eyes of a chicken and you lose yourself in a completely flat, frightening stupidity. They are like a great metaphor for me... I kind of love chicken, but they frighten me more than any other animal.”
— Werner Herzog, on the Signs of Life (1968) DVD audio commentary (2005)
“Then there are those proverbial “bird brains” of the barnyard, chickens, surely the most maligned and abused animal on the face of the earth, and—just as surely—among the brightest, most social birds we'll find anywhere. ... Chickens not only are capable of learning, they are also capable of teaching one another. It turns out that chickens are not as dumb as popular mythology makes them out to be.”
— Tom Regan, Empty Cages: Facing the Challenge of Animal Rights (Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2004), ch. 6, p. 105
“Jack, how agrees the devil and thee about thy soul, that thou soldest him on Good Friday last for a cup of Madeira and a cold capon’s leg?”
— William Shakespeare, Henry IV, Part 1 (c. 1597), act I, sc. ii
“The worst torture to which a battery hen is exposed is the inability to retire somewhere for the laying act. For the person who knows something about animals it is truly heart-rending to watch how a chicken tries again and again to crawl beneath her fellow-cage mates to search there in vain for cover.”
— Konrad Lorenz, "Animals are Sentient Beings: Konrad Lorenz on Instinct and Modern Factory Farming", in Der Spiegel (17 November 1980); as quoted in "Scientists and Experts on Battery Cages and Laying Hen Welfare", Humanesociety.org (Archived 27 August 2010)
“I am a vegetarian for health reasons—the health of the chicken.”
— Isaac Bashevis Singer, quoted in Richard H. Schwartz, Judaism and Vegetarianism (New York: Lantern Books, 2001), p. 177

Quotes via Wikiquote (CC BY-SA), each with its original source.

Overview

Chicken is a 1996 New Zealand film written and directed by Grant Lahood. It was his debut feature after a series of short films. It was the first New Zealand feature film of the year. It commenced shooting in Wellington in July 1995. It had a Wellington premier on Monday 29 April before opening nationally on Friday.

From Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).

Chicken is a 1996 New Zealand film written and directed by Grant Lahood. It was his debut feature after a series of short films. It was the first New Zealand feature film of the year. It commenced shooting in Wellington in July 1995. It had a Wellington premier on Monday 29 April before opening nationally on Friday.

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