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These violent delights have violent ends...
“I read a theory once that the human intellect was like peacock feathers. Just an extravagant display intended to attract a mate. All of art, literature, a bit of Mozart, William Shakespeare, Michelangelo, and the Empire State Building. Just an elaborate mating ritual. Maybe it doesn’t matter that we…”
— Halley Wegryn Gross, Jonathan Nolan, Dr. Robert Ford, Anthony Hopkins, imdb.com
“Everything in this world is magic, except to the magician.”
— Lisa Joy, Jonathan Nolan, Dr. Robert Ford, Anthony Hopkins, imdb.com
“We’ve managed to slip evolution’s leash now, haven’t we? We can cure any disease, keep even the weakest of us alive, and one fine day perhaps we shall even resurrect the dead, call forth Lazarus from his cave. Do you know what that means? It means that we’re done, that this is as good as we’re going…”
— Jonathan Nolan, Dr. Robert Ford, Anthony Hopkins, imdb.com
“I like to remember what my father taught me. That at one point or another, we were all new to this world.”
— Jonathan Nolan, Dolores Abernathy, Evan Rachel Wood, imdb.com
“Evolution forged the entirety of sentient life on this planet using only one tool… The mistake.”
— Jonathan Nolan, Dr. Robert Ford, Anthony Hopkins, imdb.com
“At first, I thought you and the others were gods. Then I realized you’re just men. And I know men. You think I’m scared of death? I’ve done it a million times. I’m fucking great at it. How many times have you died? Because if you don’t help me… I’ll kill you.”
— Halley Wegryn Gross, Jonathan Nolan, Maeve Millay, Thandie Newton, imdb.com
“This whole world is a story. I’ve read every page except the last one. I need to find out how it ends. I want to know what this all means.”
— Ed Brubaker, Jonathan Nolan, The Man in Black, Ed Harris, imdb.com
“There is no threshold that makes us greater than the sum of our parts, no inflection point at which we become fully alive. We can’t define consciousness because consciousness does not exist. Humans fancy that there’s something special about the way we perceive the world, and yet we live in loops as…”
— Charles Yu, Lisa Joy, Dr. Robert Ford, Anthony Hopkins, imdb.com
“The problem, Bernard, is that what you and I do is so complicated. We practice witchcraft. We speak the right words. Then we create life itself… out of chaos.”
— Lisa Joy, Jonathan Nolan, Dr. Robert Ford, Anthony Hopkins, imdb.com
“Some people choose to see the ugliness in this world. The disarray. I choose to see the beauty. To believe there is an order to our days, a purpose.”
— Jonathan Nolan, Dolores Abernathy, Evan Rachel Wood, imdb.com
“Only boring people get bored.”
— Lisa Joy, Jonathan Nolan, Dr. Robert Ford, Anthony Hopkins, imdb.com
“It’s not about giving the guests what you think they want. No, that’s simple. The titillation, horror, elation… They’re parlor tricks. The guests don’t return for the obvious things we do, the garish things. They come back because of the subtleties, the details. They come back because they discover…”
— Lisa Joy, Jonathan Nolan, Dr. Robert Ford, Anthony Hopkins, imdb.com
“I don’t wanna be in a story. All I want is to not look forward or back. I just wanna be… in the moment I’m in.”
— Halley Wegryn Gross, Jonathan Nolan, Dolores Abernathy, Evan Rachel Wood, imdb.com
“Your mind is a walled garden. Even death cannot touch the flowers blooming there.”
— Jonathan Nolan, Dr. Robert Ford, Anthony Hopkins, imdb.com
“You both keep assuming that I want out. Whatever that is. If it’s such a wonderful place out there, why are you all clamoring to get in here?”
— Dan Dietz, Katherine Lingenfelter, Dolores Abernathy, Evan Rachel Wood, imdb.com
“We humans are alone in this world for a reason. We murdered and butchered anything that challenged our primacy.”
— Dan Dietz, Katherine Lingenfelter, Dr. Robert Ford, Anthony Hopkins, imdb.com
“The piano doesn’t murder the player if it doesn’t like the music.”
— Dan Dietz, Katherine Lingenfelter, Dr. Robert Ford, Anthony Hopkins, imdb.com
“The pain, their loss… it’s all I have left of them. You think the grief will make you smaller inside, like your heart will collapse in on itself, but it doesn’t. I feel spaces opening up inside of me like a building with rooms I’ve never explored.”
— Ed Brubaker, Jonathan Nolan, Dolores Abernathy, Evan Rachel Wood, imdb.com
“That’s what I love about this place, all the secrets, all the little things I never noticed even after all these years. You know why this beats the real world, Lawrence? Real world is just chaos. It’s an accident. But in here, every detail adds up to something.”
— Lisa Joy, Jonathan Nolan, The Man in Black, Ed Harris, imdb.com
“Real love is always worth waiting for.”
— Lisa Joy, Jonathan Nolan, Clementine Pennyfeather, Angela Sarafyan, imdb.com
“It’s a difficult thing, realizing your entire life is some hideous fiction.”
— Dan Dietz, Katherine Lingenfelter, Maeve Millay, Thandie Newton, imdb.com