- [last lines, about Drosselmeyer]
- Narrator: ...for he knew that miracles are born in the dreams of children.
- Narrator: [from the videotaped introduction to the film] Now why would anybody write about a nutcracker? Well, nutcrackers nowadays are pretty plain affairs, but in the olden days, master craftsmen would outdo one another carving nutcrackers from wood or from metal.
- Narrator: There's not an apartment window or supermarket in sight, for this is a village in the Black Forest.