Narcos

“In all the years I chased Escobar, I could count on one hand the times we almost had him. And each time, we forgot the two most important things we already knew about him: Close doesn’t count. And Pablo is never more dangerous than when you almost have him.”

— Chris Brancato, Steve Murphy, Boyd Holbrook, imdb.com

“Escobar hadn’t built himself a prison at all. He’d built himself a fortress. But no matter how you decorate it, a cage is still a cage.”

— Chris Brancato, Nick Schenk, Steve Murphy, Boyd Holbrook, imdb.com

“Best way to make a bad story go away is to come up with a better story, and sell it hard.”

— Chris Brancato, Steve Murphy, Boyd Holbrook, imdb.com

“Nothing gives the fearful more courage than another’s fear.”

— Dana Ledoux Miller, Steve Murphy, Boyd Holbrook, imdb.com

“Nowadays, the US government can listen to anything you say. They know where you are, they know who you’re talking to, and trust me, they know who you’re fucking. You turn on a cell phone or a computer, and you’re doomed. But in Colombia in 1989, it wasn’t that easy. First off, there was no Internet.…”

— Chris Brancato, Carlo Bernard, Doug Miro, Steve Murphy, Boyd Holbrook, imdb.com

“One man’s prison is anyone else’s palace.”

— Chris Brancato, Steve Murphy, Boyd Holbrook, imdb.com

“Sometimes bad guys do good things.”

— Chris Brancato, Carlo Bernard, Doug Miro, Steve Murphy, Boyd Holbrook, imdb.com

“The thing about war is, it’s just bad for business. And when you got a bull’s-eye on your back, your rivals get bold.”

— Zach Calig, Steve Murphy, Boyd Holbrook, imdb.com

“They may separate us, but they’ll never be able to destroy us.”

— Chris Brancato, Pablo Escobar, Wagner Moura, imdb.com

“When you kill someone, you lose all your leverage the moment they’re dead. Now, you take someone’s children away from them, you’d be amazed what they’d do to get them back.”

— Zach Calig, Steve Murphy, Boyd Holbrook, imdb.com

“I would like to die on my own two feet. In the year 3047.”

— Chris Brancato, Pablo Escobar, Wagner Moura, imdb.com

“We all need a method. Something to cling to when the shit around us gets so deep, we might go under. Something to guide us home when we feel we’ve lost our way. If we’re lucky, someone gives us a method and we follow it. If not, we find our own.”

— Chris Brancato, Steve Murphy, Boyd Holbrook, imdb.com

“When you’ve run out of ways to hide your money, that’s when you give it to the poor.”

— Chris Brancato, Steve Murphy, Boyd Holbrook, imdb.com

“Back then, we were just finding out about the effects of cocaine on the human brain. We didn’t know much, but we knew it was some pretty powerful shit. Cocaine hijacks the pleasure centres in the brain. A rat will choose cocaine over food and water. It would choose cocaine over sleep, over sex, over…”

— Chris Brancato, Carlo Bernard, Doug Miro, Steve Murphy, Boyd Holbrook, imdb.com

“When you get too close to the sun, your dreams may melt away.”

— Dana Calvo, Steve Murphy, Boyd Holbrook, imdb.com

“Colombians say, God made our land so beautiful it was unfair to the rest of the world. So to even the score, God populated the land with a race of evil men.”

— Dana Ledoux Miller, Presidente Cesar Gaviria, Raúl Méndez, imdb.com

“If there’s one thing I’ve learned in the narco world, it’s that life is more complicated than you think. Good and bad, they’re relative concepts.”

— Chris Brancato, Carlo Bernard, Doug Miro, Steve Murphy, Boyd Holbrook, imdb.com

“The purpose of war is peace.”

— Chris Brancato, Nick Schenk, Pablo Escobar, Wagner Moura, imdb.com

“Lies are necessary, when the truth is too difficult to believe.”

— Allison Abner, Pablo Escobar, Wagner Moura, imdb.com

“There is a time to fight and there is a time to be clever.”

— Chris Brancato, Nick Schenk, Pablo Escobar, Wagner Moura, imdb.com