Political thriller films

"Mutation: it is the key to our evolution. It has enabled us to evolve from a single-celled organism into the dominant species on the planet. This process is slow, and normally taking thousands and thousands of years. But every few hundred millennia, evolution leaps forward."

"[to Senator Robert Kelly] Are you a God-fearing man, Senator? It's such a strange phrase. I've always thought of God as a teacher. As a bringer of light, wisdom and understanding. You see, l think what you really are afraid of is me. Me and my kind. The brotherhood of mutants. It's not so surprising, really. Mankind has always feared what it doesn't understand. Well, don't fear God, Senator, and certainly don't fear me. Not any more."

"There seems to be this embarrassment with superheroes in the culture. If you see the new X-Men movie, they all have to wear black leather because it makes them look cool and tough, because people are afraid to make the characters look like the characters."

""X-Men" is at least not a manic editing frenzy for atrophied attention spans. It's restrained and introspective for a superhero epic, and fans of the comic books may like that. Graphic novels (as they sometimes deserve to be called) take themselves as seriously as the ones without pictures, and you can tell that here when the opening scene shows Jews being forced into death camps in Poland in 1944. One could argue that the Holocaust is not appropriate subject matter for an action movie based on a comic book, but having talked to some "X-Men" fans I believe that in their minds the medium is as deep and portentous as, say, "Sophie's Choice." The Holocaust scene introduces Magneto (Ian McKellen) as a child; his mental powers twist iron gates out of shape. The narrator informs us that "evolution takes thousands and thousands of years," which is putting it mildly, and that we live in an age of great evolutionary leaps forward. Some of the X-Men develop paranormal powers which cannot be accounted for by the strictly physical mutations which form the basis of Darwinian theory; I get restless when real science is evoked in the name of pseudoscience, but, hey, that's just me. Magneto's opponent in "X-Men" is Xavier (Patrick Stewart), another mutant of the same generation. They aren't enemies so much as ideological opposites. Magneto, having seen the Holocaust, has a deep pessimism about human nature. Xavier, who runs a school for mutants in Westchester County, where it doubtless seems no stranger than the other private schools, hopes these new powers can be used for good. Bruce Davison plays the McCarthy-like senator who waves a list of "known mutants" during a congressional hearing and wants them all registered—no doubt for dire purposes. Magneto wants to counter by using a device which can convert world leaders to mutants. (The world leaders are conveniently meeting on an island near Ellis Island, so the Statue of Liberty can be a prop.) How a machine could create a desired mutation within a generation is not much explored by the movie, which also eludes the question of why you would want to invest your enemies with your powers. No matter; Xavier, who can read minds, leads his good mutants in a battle to foil Magneto, and that's the plot, or most of it."

"I started out liking this movie, while waiting for something really interesting to happen. When nothing did, I still didn't dislike it; I assume the X-Men will further develop their personalities if there is a sequel, and maybe find time to get involved in a story. No doubt fans of the comics will understand subtle allusions and fine points of behavior; they should linger in the lobby after each screening to answer questions."

"Q: How did you decide Wolverine would be the star of the piece even more so than Xavier or Magneto?"

"Q: Some fans complained Storm wasn't given her due in the first X-Men movie, and then became better over time. Did you pay attention to those concerns and how did that happen that she was given more to do in X2?"

"I was sold it by Bryan who said, ‘Mutants are like gays. They’re cast out by society for no good reason, and, as in all civil rights movements, they have to decide: Are they going to take the Xavier line — which is to somehow assimilate and stand up for yourself and be proud of what you are, but get on with everybody — or are you going to take the alternative view — which is, if necessary, use violence to stand up for your own rights. And that’s true. I’ve come across that division within the gay rights movement."

"I of course studied the comic books. In fact I think it was some of the most relaxing research I've ever had to do on a movie. Usually the kind of projects that I've been involved in I end up with heavy novels and background research. But in this case the studio just sent over a box of comic books."

"I wanted to get some of the history of the character of course, particularly with his relationship with Magneto, but also to feel how Stan Lee had got inside the mind of Xavier from the very beginning. That was valuable. But it's true, like Bryan, when we had the final draft of the shooting script that's what we worked on."

"DS: Did you find it limiting as an actor to be stuck in that chair [as Professor Xavier]?"

"PS: Bryan set out to make a serious movie. That was his intention from the very beginning. Which also happens to be very exciting and very colorful, funny and so forth. It wasn't only Xavier, but having Magneto also as an individual of substance, of great strength and power was important. And who better than Sir Ian to do that. It was a very sensible idea."

"Join the Evolution."

"Protecting Those Who Fear Them."

"The time is coming when all that we are afraid of will be all that can save us."

"Trust a few. Fear the rest."

"We're Not What You Think."

"The future is here."

"Hugh Jackman – Logan/Wolverine"

"Patrick Stewart – Processor X"

"Ian McKellen – Magneto"

"Famke Janssen – Jean Grey"

"James Marsden – Cyclops"

"Halle Berry – Storm"

"Anna Paquin – Rogue"

"Tyler Mane – Sabretooth"

"Ray Park – Toad"

"Rebecca Romijn – Mystique"

"Bruce Davison – Senator Kelly"

"Brian Peck – Hot Dog Vendor"

"[having just pressed the torpedo self-destruct; to weapons officer] Now, understand, Commander: The torpedo did not self-destruct. You heard it hit the hull. [shows CIA ID] And I... was never here."

"Invisible. Silent. Stolen."

"The hunt is on."

"Sean Connery - Captain Marko Ramius"

"Alec Baldwin - Jack Ryan"

"Scott Glenn - Commander Bart Mancuso"

"Sam Neill - Captain 2nd Rank Vasily Borodin"

"James Earl Jones - Admiral James Greer"

"Joss Ackland - Soviet Ambassador to the US Andrei Lysenko"

"Richard Jordan - US National Security Advisor Dr. Jeffrey Pelt"

"Peter Firth - Red October political officer Ivan Yurevich Putin"

"Tim Curry - Red October chief medical officer Dr. Petrov"

"Courtney B. Vance - Sonarman 2nd Class Ronald Jones"

"Stellan Skarsgård - VK Konovalov skipper Captain Tupolev"

"Jeffrey Jones - Oliver Wendell 'Skip' Tyler"

"Timothy Carhart - Bill Steiner"

"Larry Ferguson - Chief of the Boat Watson - USS Dallas"

"Fred Thompson - Rear Admiral Joshua Painter - USS Enterprise"

"In terms of logic and politics, The Hunt for Red October is most peculiar, but it's not without its entertaining moments. It's an elegy for those dear, dark, terrible days of the cold war, when it was either them or us, and before the world had become so thoroughly fractured that it's no longer possible to know exactly who the thems are."

"[talking to wife on the way back from work] You're the only woman for me. You and Janet Jackson."

"[explaining himself to Mr Pintero's lieutenant when a new article tags him and Pintero] Actually, I believe the slur "shyster" is generally reserved for Jewish attorneys. I believe the proper slur for someone like myself would be "eggplant"."

"[to Edward Lyle] You won the war. Now we're fighting the peace. It's a lot more volatile. Now we've got ten million crackpots out there with sniper scopes, sarin gas and C-4. Ten-year-olds go on the Net, downloading encryption we can barely break, not to mention instructions on how to make a low-yield nuclear device. Privacy's been dead for 30 years because we can't risk it. The only privacy that's left is the inside of your head. Maybe that's enough. You think we're the enemy of democracy, you and I? I think we're democracy's last hope. There's always going to be power."

"It's not paranoia if they're really after you."

"In God we trust. The rest we monitor."

"The only privacy left is inside of your head."

"Will Smith - Robert Clayton Dean"

"Gene Hackman - Edward "Brill" Lyle"

"Jon Voight - Thomas Brian Reynolds"

"Barry Pepper - Detective David Pratt"

"Regina King - Carla Dean"

"Ian Hart - John Bingham"

"Lisa Bonet - Rachel F. Banks"

"Jascha Washington - Eric Dean"

"James LeGros - Jerry Miller"

"Jake Busey - Krug"

"Scott Caan - Jones"

"Jamie Kennedy - Jamie Williams"

"Jason Lee - Daniel Leon Zavitz"

"Gabriel Byrne - Fake Brill"

"Stuart Wilson - Congressman Sam Albert"

"Jack Black - Fiedler"

"Anna Gunn - Emily Reynolds"

"Laura Cayouette - Christa Hawkins"

"Loren Dean - Loren Hicks"

"Bodhi Elfman - Van"

"Dan Butler - NSA Director Admiral Shaffer"

"Seth Green - Selby (uncredited)"

"Tom Sizemore - Boss Paulie Pintero (uncredited)"

"Jason Robards - Congressman Phil Hammersley (uncredited)"

"Philip Baker Hall - Attorney Mark Silverberg (uncredited)"

"Brian Markinson - Attorney Brian Blake (uncredited)"

"Larry King - Himself (uncredited)"

"Ivana Miličević - Ruby's Sales Clerk"

"If I'm walking into a shit storm I wanna know which way the wind's blowing."

"You're gonna make a beautiful corpse."

"You go off the reservation, I will not come after you."

"Technology gets better everyday. That's fine. But most of the time all you need is a stick of gum, a pocket knife and a smile."

"She had worked both ends against the middle for so long, the middle decided to give up and go home."

"We didn't know when the Doc was going to be giving the Shiek his physical, but it was our one and only opportunity to take him out. So I didn't have the usual time to butter him up. Which means we needed twice the sex with half the foreplay."

"I'm done with the reasons, Nathan. I'm done with you. I'm not ending up like you."

"Robert Redford - Nathan Muir"

"Brad Pitt - Tom Bishop"

"Catherine McCormack - Elizabeth Hadley"

"Stephen Dillane - Charles Harker"

"Larry Bryggman - Troy Folger"

"Marianne Jean-Baptiste - Gladys Jennip"

"Ken Leung - Li"

"David Hemmings - Harry Duncan"

"Michael Paul Chan - Vincent Vy Ngo"

"Garrick Hagon - CIA Director Cy Wilson"

"Shane Rimmer - Estate Agent"

"Benedict Wong - Tran"

"Adrian Pang - Jiang"

"Omid Djalili - Beirut: Doumet"

"Dale Dye - Rescue Sequence: Cmdr. Wiley"

"Charlotte Rampling - Anna Cathcart"

"James Aubrey - Mitch Alford"

"Mutants. Since the discovery of their existence they have been regarded with fear, suspicion, often hatred. Across the planet, debate rages. Are mutants the next link in the evolutionary chain or simply a new species of humanity fighting for their share of the world? Either way it is a historical fact: Sharing the world has never been humanity's defining attribute."

"[After ripping off and throwing his dog tags at Stryker's feet] I'll take my chances with him."

"[After stopping the X-Jet from crashing with his powers] When will these people learn how to fly?"

"Mutation: it is the key to our evolution. It is how we have evolved from a single-celled organism into the dominant species on the planet. This process is slow, normally taking thousands and thousands of years. But every few hundred millennia, evolution leaps forward."

"I was piloting black-ops missions in the jungles of North Vietnam when you were suckin' on your mama's tit at Woodstock, Kelly. Don't lecture me about war. This already is a war."

"The time has come for those who are different to stand united."

"Get ready for the return of the Evolution."

"Evolution Continues."

"The ones we fear most, will be all that can save us... again."

"In this world wide conspiracy the only thing you can count on... Is the X factor."

"First, they were fighting for acceptance. Now, they're battling for survival."

"X-Men United."

""X2: X-Men United" is the kind of movie you enjoy for its moments, even though they never add up. Made for (and possibly by) those with short attention spans, it lives in the present, providing one amazing spectacle after another, and not even trying to develop a story arc. Having trained on the original "X-Men" (2000), i tried to experience the film entirely in the present, and the fact is, i had a good time. Dumb, but good."

"Like all the characters in the Marvel Comics stable, the X-Men have psychological or political problems; in the first movie they were faced with genocide, and in this one their right to privacy is violated with the Mutant Registration Act. Of course there will be audience members who believe mutants should have no rights, and so "X2" provides a valuable civics lesson. (How you register a mutant who can teleport or shape-shift is not explained.)"

"Odd, then, that Wolverine is one of the dominant characters even though his X-Acto knuckles seem pretty insignificant compared to the powers of Pyro or Cyclops. In a convention borrowed from martial arts movies, "X2" pairs characters with matching powers, so that when Wolverine has his titanic battle, it's with an enemy also equipped with blades. What would happen if Pyro and Iceman went head to head? I visualize the two of them in a pool of hot water."

"Since the earliest days of "Spider-Man," Marvel heroes have had personal problems to deal with, and there's a classic Stan Lee moment here in the scene where Iceman breaks the news to his parents that he is a mutant. The movie treats the dialogue as a coming out scene, half-seriously, as if providing inspiration for real-life parents and their children with secrets."

""X2: X-Men United" lacks a beginning, a middle and an end, and exists more as a self-renewing loop. In that it is faithful to comic books themselves, which month after month and year after year seem frozen in the same fictional universe."

"On the first film, the studio was worried about the lead character stabbing people. We were like, “Yeah, okay, but he has nine inch blades that come out of his fists. People are going to get stabbed.” You can’t do what they do in the cartoons having him open doors or be the world’s most dangerous can opener. When we started to do X2 one of the first things I said to Bryan [Singer] was we needed to see Wolverine cut loose and just go on a rampage. We also knew we want the mansion be invaded. I think it was Bryan who said the others should be out of town and it should just be Wolverine watching the mansion, then you can see him tear into those people. We made sure the soldiers he was attacking were faceless. They got masks on, so you can stay in a PG-13 relm and murder a bunch of people. That’s what my 15-year-old self wanted to see from Wolverine."

"When I first read this installment of the script, because I've been talking to fans, and if there's one thing they've said to me it was, 'You don't kick enough ass. Let's see that berserker rage!' I kind of thought about that, and I was like, 'Jeez, you're right.' When I went back to X-Men I, there really wasn't a lot there. I had a huge fight scene with Mystique, where I ended up on my back, knocked out, and there's a bit at the beginning, there wasn't a lot of that berserker rage. So, when I read the script, I thought the relationships were better, I thought it was funnier, I thought there was more action, but I still said, 'We've got to get even more action.' I kind of fought for a little bit more in the mansion scene sequence, particularly. That was a little more berserker rage there than was originally. But, apart from that, I thought the script had a great balance. I think it works for Wolverine's story. It's not like he's in the corner crying. He's at a crisis point where he's about to find out everything he's ever wanted to know, and as liberating as that would be, it's frightening as all hell. So, he's on edge. He's having these nightmares. So, it all kind of works in together with the action."

"With the movie coming out in the aftermath of the military action in Iraq, Singer was asked if the troubled times made him nervous about people's reactions to the war theme in this film. "No, not at all, because the soldiers working in this film, they're not even working in the United States. They're working up in Alberta, in a secret base. They're working for a person who's completely rogue from the government. The President of the United States is very on the fence and very concerned, justifiably about issues. There are mutants who possess incredible power and who are terribly violent and dangerous to the human society and mutant society. I view these as henchmen, and in terms of fighter airplanes getting dogged and police getting dogged, no one in that sphere is really harmed. It's not about bullying the authority. I personally have tremendous faith and support of our authorities and military ... Having shown it to friends of mine in the military, they get a kick out of the fact that these soldiers are a bunch of rogue, dirt bags that get what's coming to them. And we see that. We definitely see that. This guy, Stryker, he's operating in his own universe. He's tricking the President, he's conning the President into his operation, so it's quite the opposite if anything. He's more of a terrorist.""

"[in Russian, addressing state dinner in Moscow] The dead remember our indifference; the dead remember our silence. [turns back to English] I came here tonight to be congratulated. But today, when I visited the Red Cross camps, overwhelmed by the flood of refugees fleeing the horror of Kazakhstan, I realize I don't deserve to be congratulated. None of us do. The truth is we acted too late. Only when our own national security was threatened did we act. Radek's regime murdered over 200,000 men, women and children and we watched it on TV. We let it happen. People were being slaughtered for over a year and we issued economic sanctions and hid behind the rhetoric of diplomacy. How dare we. The dead remembered: real peace is not just the absence of conflict, it's the presence of justice. And tonight I come to you with a pledge to change America's policy. Never again will I allow our political self-interest to deter us from doing what we know to be morally right. Atrocity and terror are not political weapons, and to those who would use them, your day is over. We will never negotiate. We will no longer tolerate and we will no longer be afraid. It's your turn to be afraid."

"[to a subdued Korshunov] Get off my plane!"

"When you talk to the President, you might remind him that I am holding his wife, his daughter, his chief of staff, his national security advisor, his classified papers, AND his baseball glove!"

"More time? [shoots National Security Advisor] Your national security advisor has just been executed. He's a very good negotiator. He bought you another half-hour."

"Impenetrable. Invincible. In Trouble."

"The fate of a nation rests on the courage of one man."

"The most important man, the surest airplane, the most dangerous hijackers..."

"Family Man. Commander-In-Chief. National Hero...Any title worth having is never given. It's earned."

"Harrison Ford is the President of the United States"

"Harrison Ford - President James Marshall"

"Gary Oldman - Egor Korshunov"

"Glenn Close - Vice-President Kathryn Bennett"

"Bill Smitrovich - General Northwood"

"Wendy Crewson - First Lady Grace Marshall"

"Liesel Matthews - First Daughter Alice Marshall"

"Paul Guilfoyle - Chief of Staff Lloyd 'Shep' Shepherd"

"Xander Berkeley - Secret Service Agent Gibbs"

"William H. Macy - Major Caldwell"

"Dean Stockwell - Defense Secretary Walter Dean"

"Tom Everett - National Security Advisor Jack Doherty"

"Jürgen Prochnow - General Ivan Radek"

"Donna Bullock - Deputy Press Secretary Melanie Mitchell"

"[to himself, in French] Do you know who I am? I do not know who I am. [in Dutch] Tell me who I am. If you know who I am... Please stop messing around... ...and tell me."

"I'm an American... Okay."

"Who has a safety deposit box full of... money and six passports and a gun? Who has a bank account number in their hip? I come in here... and the first thing I'm doing is I'm catching the sight lines and looking for an exit."

"I can tell you the license plate numbers of all six cars outside. I can tell you that our waitress is left-handed and the guy sitting up at the counter weighs two hundred and fifteen pounds and knows how to handle himself. I know the best place to look for a gun is the cab of the gray truck outside, and at this altitude, I can run flat out for a half mile before my hands start shaking. Now why would I know that? How can I know that and not know who I am?"

"[to Marie] You can never come back to this car."

"I'm definitely Kane. I just had a meeting as Kane. And he knew me as Kane. So I'm definitely Bourne. I'm also definitely Kane."

"You got to get out. You got to start running. You get low, you stay low. No more friends. Nothing familiar. There's enough in there for you to make a life. Any life."

"You move, you die."

"I swear to God, if I even feel somebody behind me, there is no measure to how fast and how hard I will bring this fight to your doorstep! I'm on my own side now."

"[Jason is repeatedly pressing the buzzer for his apartment] I guess you're not home."

"Sure. Yeah. Sure. Uh, he went out the window. Why would someone do that?"

"This guy at the front desk was smiling at me. I thought-- all this trouble-- maybe it's easier to just ask for them."

"The only thing we had in common was that neither of us knew who you were. We passed that now."

"You have ID?"

"[about Marie] I want to know every place she's slept in the past six years."

"Great police work. Really brilliant. Why don't they just hang out a banner that says "Don't come back"? Jesus Christ. What is the French word for "stakeout"?"

"You're worried about a budget meeting? We don't take care of this, we don't make it to the men's room. Is that clear enough for you? We will burn for this. We will both of us burn."

"It only goes two ways. Either you come in and let us make this right... or we'll keep going until we're satisfied."

"You're U.S. Government property! You're a malfunctioning, 30-million-dollar weapon! You're a total goddamn catastrophe and by God, if it kills me, you're gonna tell me how this happened."

"[to Bourne] Kill Wombosi? Hell, we can do that any time we want. I can send Nicky to do that, for Christ's sake! Mr. Wombosi was supposed to be dead three weeks ago. He was supposed to have died in a way where the only possible explanation was that he'd been murdered by a member of his own entourage! I don't send you to kill! I send you to be invisible. I send you because you don't exist."

"Marshall: That's Nykwana Wombosi speaking in Paris the day before yesterday. He was an irritation before he took power, a problem when he was in power, and he's been a disaster for us in exile."

"Nykwana Wombosi: They want war? Then we will give them war! If they want to kill me, they better kill me the first time. They better kill me dead."

"The Professor: Look at this. Look at what they make you give."

"Nicky Parsons: It's Bourne, isn't it?"

"Ward Abbott: Okay, this is... Blackbriar. Blackbriar is a joint DOD communications program that we really feel has good traction to it. It's got legs. It'll run and run."

"Matt Damon is Jason Bourne"

"He never asked to be Bourne."

"He was the perfect weapon until he became the target."

"Bourne to survive"

"On June 14, danger is Bourne."

"Danger is Bourne."

"Who is Jason Bourne?"

"The head of security for the reelection of a Republican President got caught bugging the national offices of the Democrats? What the hell does that mean?"

"Hi, I'm Bob Woodward of the Washington Post—and—what's that?--you've never heard of me?--I can't help that—you don't believe I'm with the Post?--what do you want me to do, Madam, shout "extra--extra"?"

"[about Martha Mitchell] I just don't get it; a CREEP secretary being scared, that's one thing. But what does the wife of one of the most powerful men in America have to be afraid of?"

"This is terrific work, if you like rejection."

"[To Bernstein, getting on an elevator] Is there any place you don't smoke?"

"I lived here all my life, I got a million contacts, but they're all bus boys and bellhops."

"[to Martin Dardis] Look, you've been jerking my chain all day. If there's some reason you can't talk to me—like the fact that you've already leaked everything to The New York Times—just say so."

"Goddammit, when is somebody going to go on the record in this story?!...You guys are about to write a story that says the former Attorney General, the highest-ranking law enforcement officer in this country, is a crook! Just be sure you're right...Leave plenty of room for his denial."

"[Mitchell] really said that about Kathy Graham? [Gives a light chuckle, then hands the notes back to Woodward] Cross out the words "her tit" and run it...this is a family newspaper."

"Once when I was reporting, Lyndon Johnson's top guy gave me the word they were looking for a successor to J. Edgar Hoover. I wrote it and the day it appeared Johnson called a press conference and appointed Hoover head of the FBI for life... And when he was done, he turned to his top guy and the President said, "Call Ben Bradlee and tell him fuck you." I took a lot of static for that—everyone said, "You did it, Bradlee, you screwed up—you stuck us with Hoover forever." I screwed up but I wasn't wrong. You guys haven't been wrong yet, is that why you're scared shitless? You should be."

"I can't do the reporting for my reporters, which means I have to trust them. And I hate trusting anybody."

"Now hold it, hold it. We're about to accuse Mr. Haldeman, who only happens to be the second most important man in America, of conducting a criminal conspiracy from inside the White House. It would be nice if we were right."

"WOODSTEIN!"

"You know the results of the latest Gallup Poll? Half the country never even heard of the word Watergate. Nobody gives a shit. You guys are probably pretty tired, right? Well, you should be. Go on home, get a nice hot bath. Rest up... 15 minutes. Then get your asses back in gear. We're under a lot of pressure, you know, and you put us there. Nothing's riding on this except the, uh, first amendment to the Constitution, freedom of the press, and maybe the future of the country. Not that any of that matters, but if you guys fuck up again, I'm gonna get mad. Goodnight."

"Woodward, Bernstein, you're both on the story, now don't fuck it up."

"[to Woodward] I can't sell hints to Simons—you called everyone you know? Call someone you don't know."

"[to Ben Bradlee] Benjy, we got a present for you. Above the fold on page one for sure. It may not change our lives one way or the other. Just a good, solid piece of American Journalism that The New York Times doesn't have."

"Richard Nixon: The White House has had no involvement whatever in this particular incident."

"John Mitchell: All that crap, you're putting it in the paper? It's all been denied. You tell your publisher—tell Katie Graham she's gonna get her tit caught in a big fat wringer if that's published. Good Christ! That's the most sickening thing I ever heard."

"Hugh Sloan, Jr.: I've been looking for a job but it's been... hard. My name's been in the papers too much. Sometimes I wonder if reporters understand how much pain they can inflict in just one sentence. I'm not thinking of myself. But my wife, my parents, it's been very rough on them. I wish I could put down on paper what it's like—you come to Washington because you believe in something, and then you get inside and you see how things actually work and you watch your ideals disintegrate. The people inside, the people in the White House, they start to believe they can suspend the rules because they're fulfilling a mission. That becomes the only important thing—the mission. It's so easy to lose perspective. We want to get out before we lose ours altogether."

"White House spokesman: On the record let me say just this: the story is totally untrue. On background, I'd like to add that Bob Haldeman is one of the greatest public servants this country has ever had and the story is a goddamned lie."

"At times it looked like it might cost them their jobs, their reputations, and maybe even their lives."

"The most devastating detective story of the century!"

"Dustin Hoffman - Carl Bernstein"

"Robert Redford - Bob Woodward"

"Jack Warden - Harry M. Rosenfeld"

"Martin Balsam - Howard Simons"

"Hal Holbrook - Deep Throat"

"Jason Robards - Ben Bradlee"

"Jane Alexander - Judy Hoback"

"Meredith Baxter - Debbie Sloan"

"Ned Beatty - Martin Dardis"

"Stephen Collins - Hugh W. Sloan"

"Penny Fuller - Sally Aiken"

"Robert Walden - Donald Segretti"

"[as he hunts a baboon, visibly angry at Solomon over almost getting them killed the night before] You know I once had this buddy named Maboko. We used to hunt bushmeat together as kids, huh. Baboons.Baboons, they were the hardest to catch. They're... They're cunning. Cunning creatures. Fast, strong. Got good eyesight. We'd always find them by the smell of their shit and that's how we learned to track your black terrorists in Angola: by the smell of your shit. It's not the same as a baboon's but after you skin it the flesh of a baboon isn't all that different than a man's you know. I tell you, I can track anything. [takes carcass and wipes blood off knife with leaf] Risk my life like that again and I'll peel you face back off your head. You understand?"

"[trying to reason with Dia, who has a gun aimed at him] You're Dia Vandy, of the proud Mende tribe. You are a good boy who loves soccer and school. Your mother loves you so much. She waits by the fire making plantains and red palm oil stew with your sister N'Yanda...and the new baby. [gradually gets closer] The cows wait for you. and Babu, the wild dog who minds no one but you. I know they made you do bad things, but you are not a bad boy. I am your father... who loves you. And you will come home with me and be my son again."

"[at an RUF labour mining camp where captive villagers are forced to mine for diamonds] The Freetown government and their white masters have raped your land to feed their greed! RUF have freed you! No more slave and master here! RUF is fighting for the people! RUF is FIGHTING for Sierra Leone! [sees a worker find a diamond and hide it in his mouth; speaks but not directly referring to the worker] Any bastard think he would joke with me diamond, I go cut he throat! STOP! [approaches the worker] Give it to me! [worker takes the diamond out of his mouth and hands it to Poison, who then shoots him]"

"[to Vandy] You think I am a devil, but only because I have lived in Hell. I want to get out."

"It Will Cost You Everything"

"From the director of "Glory" and "The Last Samurai""

"No one has found a diamond, Until Now"

"Leonardo DiCaprio - Danny Archer"

"Jennifer Connelly - Maddy Bowen"

"Djimon Hounsou - Solomon Vandy"

"Kagiso Kuypers - Dia Vandy"

"Arnold Vosloo - Colonel Coetzee"

"Antony Coleman - Cordell Brown"

"Benu Mabhena - Jassie Vandy"

"Anointing Lukola - N'Yanda Vandy"

"David Harewood - Captain Poison"

"Basil Wallace - Benjamin Kapanay"

"Jimi Mistry - Nabil"

"Michael Sheen - Rupert Simmons"

"Marius Weyers - Rudolf van de Kaap"

"Stephen Collins - Ambassador Walker"

"Ntare Mwine - M'Ed"

"Ato Essandoh - Captain "Rambo""

"Gaurav Chopra - French journalist"

"We deposit money from a fund that doesn't exist into a box we don't know about in a bank we've never set foot in. We can't help you because we never heard of you before."

"Don't fuck with the Jews."

"[to Avner] I've known guys like you in the army. You'll do any terrifying thing you're asked, but you have to do it running. You think you can outrun your fears and your doubts. The only thing that really scares you guys is stillness."

"Golda Meir: Every civilization finds it necessary to negotiate compromises with its own values."

"Papa: The race is not to the swift nor the battle to the strong but time and chance happens to them all. Evil falls suddenly, who can say when it falls?"

"Mossad Accountant: In the operational funds box we will deposit 250,000 American dollars. You take it out - we put more in. I want receipts! [he emphatically slams his hand on his desk] You are not working for the Baron Rothschild; you're working for Israel, a small country! I'm an old Galicianer from a mud hut in the Ukraine, and I don't trust Yekke putzes let loose in Europe with unlimited operational expenses!"

"The world was watching in 1972 as 11 Israeli athletes were murdered at the Munich Olympics. This is the story of what happened next."

"Eric Bana - Avner Kaufman"

"Daniel Craig - Steve"

"Ciaran Hinds - Carl"

"Mathieu Kassovitz - Robert"

"Hanns Zischler - Hans"

"Geoffrey Rush - Ephraim"

"Michael Lonsdale - Papa"

"Ayelet Zurer - Daphna"

"Marie Josee Croze - Jeanette"

"Yvan Attal - Tony"

"Mathieu Amalric - Louis"

"Gila Almagor - Avner's Mother"

"Lynn Cohen - Golda Meir"

"Yigal Naor - Mahmoud Hamshari"

"Moritz Bleibtreu - Andreas"

"Let's see what lies they're trying to sell us today."

"That's a slow draw you got there. You sure you want to do that?"

"I don't think you understand. These boys killed my dog."

"Welcome to Tennessee; patron state of shootin' stuff"

"Slow is smooth, smooth is fast"

"That won't be necessary, Colonel, as I have already received no less than a dozen calls from highly-ranked and powerfully-placed individuals telling me to let you go. But the joy of checks and balances in our government is that I can, and am, indeed, required by law, to tell them to fuck off."

"Colonel, your moral compass is so fucked up, I'll be shocked if you manage to find your way back to the parking lot."

"It's not the Wild West anymore, you can't just clean up the streets with a gun, even though sometimes, that's exactly what's needed."

"I guess Bob Lee didn't think he was expendable."

"Some people don't know what to do when their belief system collapses. Bob Lee is one of those."

"I don't carry a gun."

"Sometimes to catch a wolf, you need to tie the bait to a tree."

"There is no head to cut off. It's a conglomerate. If one of them betrays the principles of the accrual of money and power, the others betray him. What it is is human weakness. You can't kill that with a gun."

"Once you've been a wolf, it's hard to be staked down like a goat."

"Yesterday was about honor. Today is about justice."

"Mark Wahlberg - Gunnery Sergeant"

"- Special Agent Nick Memphis"

"- Colonel Isaac Johnson"

"Kate Mara - Sarah Fenn"

"- Senator Charles F. Meachum"

"- Jack Payne"

"- Special Agent Alourdes Galindo"

"as Brent Dobbler"

"- Special Agent Howard Purnell"

"- Russ Turner"

"- Mikhaylo Sczerbiak"

"- Lance Corporal Donnie Fenn"

"Alan C. Peterson - Officer Stanley Timmons"

"- Attorney General Russert"

"- Mr. Rate"

"- Lead Mercenary"

"Dean McKenzie - Archbishop"

"Logan - Bob Lee Swagger's Dog"

"My argument is not with you."

"Someone started all this. And I'm gonna find them."

"I've tried to apologize for what I've done. For what I am. None of it makes it any better."

"This is where it started for me. This is where it ends."

"I remember. I remember everything."

"Look at us. Look at what they make you give."

"I wanna know what he's gonna think before he does, every dirty little secret he has."

"Where the hell is he, people?"

"Jesus Christ. That's Jason Bourne..."

"You know as well as I do decisions made in real time are never perfect. Don't second-guess an operation from an armchair."

"Issue a standing kill order on Jason Bourne, effective immediately."

"This is a Code 10 Abort. I want everyone back in their vehicles, this is a Code 10 Abort!"

"Listen, people - do you have any idea who you're dealing with? This is Jason Bourne. You are nine hours behind the toughest target you have ever tracked. Now I want everyone to sit down, strap in, and turn on all you've got. (No one moves.) That would mean now!"

"The guy you're after is a CIA operative with a clearance above Top Secret, he's committing treason by talking to Ross. You really think that, while doing that, he's gonna use a cell phone that he knows we can track?"

"[to Noah Vosen] You better get yourself a good lawyer."

"A republic lives on the knife's edge."

"You can't outrun what you did, Jason. You made yourself into who you are. Eventually you're gonna have to face the fact you chose right here to become Jason Bourne."

"You came to us. You volunteered. You said you'd do anything it takes to save American lives. You're not a liar, are you? Or... too weak to see this through? This is it. Let go of David Webb. Really give yourself to this program..."

"You're no longer David Webb. From now on, you'll be known as Jason Bourne. Welcome to the program."

"Ezra Kramer: My number one rule is "Hope for the best, plan for the worst." Far as I'm concerned, Bourne is still a serious threat until proven otherwise."

"Newsreader: Meanwhile, mystery surrounds the fate of David Webb, also known as Jason Bourne, the source behind the exposure of the Blackbriar program. It had been reported that David was shot and fell from a Manhattan rooftop into the East River ten stories below. However, after a three-day search, Webb's body has yet to be found."

"Matt Damon - Jason Bourne"

"Julia Stiles - Nicky Parsons"

"- Noah Vosen"

"- Ezra Kramer"

"- Simon Ross"

"Albert Finney - Dr. Albert Hirsch"

"- Pam Landy"

"- Tom Cronin"

"- Martin Kreutz"

"- Neal Daniels"

"[to Cutter, before commencing a covert action] Let me make this very clear: this is your deal, not mine, so unless I have written authorization, this whole thing is over before it starts because I'm not going to be the only one left without a chair when the music stops."

"[on Cutter's computer] They're in. Congratulations, James, you've got your own little war."

"These drug cartels represent a clear and present danger to the national security of the United States."

"Truth needs a soldier."

"The war of drugs would lead him to the war of power."

"Harrison Ford - Jack Ryan"

"Willem Dafoe - John Clark"

"James Earl Jones - Admiral Jim Greer"

"Anne Archer - Cathy Ryan"

"Benjamin Bratt - Captain Ramírez"

"Raymond Cruz - Domingo Chavez"

"Joaquim de Almeida - Félix Cortez"

"Miguel Sandoval - Ernesto Escobedo"

"Harris Yulin - James Cutter"

"Henry Czerny - Robert "Bob" Ritter"

"Donald Moffat - President Edward Bennett"

"Greg Germann - Petey"

"Colleen Flynn - Coast Guard Captain"

"Reed Diamond - Coast Guard Chief"

"Reg E. Cathey - Sergeant Major"

"Clark Gregg - Staff Sergeant"

"A week ago, I was 4,000 miles away, in India, watching Marie die. They came for me, and they killed her instead. This ends now."

"It changes things, that knowledge, doesn't it? When what you love gets taken from you... You'd wanna know the truth."

"[from the alternate ending] What do you want from me? Everything I know is history. Everyone I knew is dead."

"[last lines] Get some rest, Pam. You look tired."

"I've given thirty years and two marriages to this agency. I've shoveled shit on four continents. I'm due to retire next year, but if you think I'm gonna sit here and let you dangle me with this, you can go to hell."

"You talk about this stuff like you read it in a book."

"Nothing in those files makes their sacrifice worthwhile."

"You're in a big puddle of shit, Pamela, and you don't have the shoes for it."

"[sensing Jason Bourne standing behind him] I don't suppose it'll do me much good to cry for help, huh?"

"I'm a patriot. I served my country."

"I'm getting on a plane to Berlin in 45 minutes, which means you're gonna call me back in 30. And when I ask you where we stand, I had better be impressed."

"C'mon, guys, we ran this guy's life with total control for all those years; we should be a step ahead of him! You wanna go home? Find Jason Bourne."

"This game? You just lost it."

"If there's something you're not telling me I want it now before I send that girl out there, do you understand?"

"They should have left him alone."

"They stole his identity. Now he wants it back."

"They took away his identity. Now he wants it back."

"Matt Damon - Jason Bourne"

"Franka Potente - Marie Kreutz"

"Brian Cox - Ward Abbott"

"Joan Allen - Pamela Landy"

"Julia Stiles - Nicki Parsons"

"Karl Urban - Kirill"

"Gabriel Mann - Danny Zorn"

"The truth is just a lie that hasn't been found out."

"It ain’t legal, but it sure as hell isn’t traitorous."

"What you've just witnessed is, in many ways, a life-sized video game. You saw a liar talk to a killer and you couldn't tell them apart. But hey, it's only television. As you may know, television programs are just the filler between attempts to steal your money. So if you want to save some, turn me off. It's a simple movement, done with the hand and what is left of your free will. The moment is now. My bet is you can't do it. But go ahead and try. [pause] Am I still on?"

"I know Maxwell Danforth very well; he killed my wife. Not with his bare hands, of course. The Danforths of the world don't murder that way. They use words like terminate, exterminate."

"[the RV has just exploded, killing all four inside as Osterman and Tanner watch] And then there were two."

"Think of them as fleas on a dog hit by a car driven by a drunken teenager whose girlfriend just gave him the clap. It will help you sense of perspective."

"The first reaction was the movie was bad, and the received wisdom is that it’s worse. Peckinpah, however, was always a foe of received wisdom, and this is why: The Osterman Weekend isn’t a terrible movie. It’s not even a bad movie. It’s certainly not a great movie, but its status as the movie that literally and figuratively buried him is entirely unjust. Like Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia, it’s a misunderstood, underrated film that deserves a second look, if not a complete reassessment. ... The Osterman Weekend’s themes are exactly the kind that are best suited to its convoluted, complicated story. It’s about paranoia and distrust and desperation. It’s about panic and confusion and betrayal. It’s not about reality; it’s about perception."

"Writing a defense of Sam Peckinpah’s The Osterman Weekend is doomed to failure if your goal is to prove that it’s a great movie, because it’s not. It’s clumsy, it’s poorly edited, and it takes too long to get going. But if I’ve been overzealous in trying to make it sound better than it really is, it’s only because 20 years of critics — including some of Peckinpah’s biggest defenders — have busied themselves trying to make it sound worse than it really is. It’s an accomplished film with excellent performances and extremely memorable scenes, and all the attributes a discriminating viewer would expect from a Sam Peckinpah project. He may not have gone out at the very top of his game, but neither did he go out at the bottom; when he had to go, he went down swinging."

"It will be a weekend to remember...if they survive it!"

"The one weekend of the year you won't want to miss."

"What would you do if a total stranger proved to you that your three closest friends were Soviet Agents?"

"Rutger Hauer - John Tanner"

"John Hurt - Lawrence Fassett"

"Craig T. Nelson - Bernard Osterman"

"Dennis Hopper - Richard Tremayne"

"Chris Sarandon - Joseph Cardone"

"Meg Foster - Ali Tanner"

"Helen Shaver - Virginia Tremayne"

"Cassie Yates - Betty Cardone"

"Sandy McPeak - Stennings"

"Christopher Starr - Steve Tanner"

"Burt Lancaster - Maxwell Danforth"

"[To Al-Saleem:] But are you pure or are you just as corrupt as the capitalist Westerners that you despise? To me, you are fucking slaves. You're slaves to the Saudi oil sheiks and the Wahabi oil money that funds you. And when that oil money runs out, my friends you will all fucking disappear into the ashes of history."

"You know you can always tell who cares about you the most, by who comes first to visit you in the hospital."

"This is unusual. Your Ed Hoffman would rather have less information than share what he has with me."

"Watch and learn, my dear. Watch and learn."

"Urgency does not call for changing methods that work, for methods that do not work."

"People are stupid. Torture doesn't work. Under torture, a man will say almost anything to make the pain stop. You have experience with this, I am sure."

"Now who pays the bills around here? I would hate to have to have my president call your king, because it's just gonna be embarrassing for all of us."

"Do we belong there or do we not? It doesn't matter how you would answer that because we are there. We're tired, and we can't see the end. We can't even console ourselves that our enemy is just as tired as we are. Because they're not. It is a fallacy that prolonged war will weaken an occupied enemy. It most likely will make your enemy stronger. They get used to the deprivation, and they adapt and respond accordingly. While here at home with every death reported we have to deal with a public-opinion trajectory that slides rapidly from supportive to negative to downright hostile. People just get sick and tired of a moment's silence at a ball game. They just wanna be told that it's over."

"Despite the fact we have markedly increased our operational intensity, we're not seeing any progress. What we're dealing with here is potentially a global conflagration that requires constant diligence in order to suppress."

"Our enemy has realized that they are fighting guys from the future. Now, ahem, it is as brilliant as it is infuriating. If you live like it's the past, and you behave like it's the past then guys from the future find it very hard to see you. If you throw away your cell phone, shut down your e-mail pass all your instructions face-to-face, hand-to-hand turn your back on technology and just disappear into the crowd No flags. No uniforms. You got your basic grunts on the ground there. They're looking going, "Who is it we're fighting?" In a situation like this, your friends dress just like your enemies and your enemies dress like your friends. What I need you to fully understand is that these people, they do not wanna negotiate. Not at all. They want the universal caliphate established across the face of the Earth and they want every infidel converted or dead."

"So, what's changed is that our allegedly unsophisticated enemy has caught on to the factually unsophisticated truth...we're an easy target. We are an easy target and our world as we know it is a lot simpler to put to an end than you might think."

"A man is not his job."

"In this world there's enough poverty and frustration and anger and passion. There will never be a shortage of martyrs."

"Trust no one. Deceive everyone."

"Trust no one."

"Leonardo DiCaprio - Roger Ferris"

"Russell Crowe - Ed Hoffman"

"Mark Strong - Hani"

"Golshifteh Farahani - Aisha"

"Oscar Isaac - Bassam"

"Ali Suliman - Omar Sadiki"

"Alon Abutbul - Al-Saleem"

"[translation of letter he is writing] The Fuhrer's promises of peace and prosperity have fallen by the wayside leaving in their wake a path of destruction. The outrages committed by Hitler's SS are a stain on the honor of the German Army. There is widespread disgust in the officer corps toward the crimes committed by the Nazis, the murder of civilians, the torture and starvation of prisoners, the mass execution of Jews. My duty as an officer is no longer to save my country, but to save human lives. I cannot find one general in a position to confront Hitler with the courage to do it. I find myself surrounded by men unwilling or unable to face the truth; Hitler is not only the archenemy of the entire world, but the archenemy of Germany. A change must be made."

"[Last words] Long live sacred Germany!"

"It only matters that we act- now, before we lose the war. Otherwise this will always be Hitler's Germany. We have to show the world that not all of us were like him."

"Any problem on Earth can be solved with the careful application of high explosives. The trick is not to be around when they go off."

"[to the conspirators] Gentlemen, good morning. Hitler has scheduled a military briefing for today at 1:00. Stauffenberg will start once everyone is present. Before arming the explosives, Stauffenberg will call here for authorisation to proceed. After the flash, his inside man will sever all communications. Assuming Fromm refuses to join us, Olbricht will take command of the Reserve Army and initiate Valkyrie. Then he will notify all district commanders that the SS is attempting to seize power. The Reserve Army will arrest all SS, Gestapo and Nazi officials. By then, Stauffenberg will have returned to Berlin and taken command of the Reserve Army. Witzleben and I will assume the roles of Commander of the Armed Forces and Head of State. With Berlin secured, Dr. Goerdeler will address the nation as our new Chancellor. Then, God willing, we can negotiate a truce with the Allies and save Europe from total destruction."

"[historical quote, to chief judge Roland Freisler of the "People's Court"] You may hand us over to the executioner, but in three months time, the disgusted and harried people will bring you to book and drag you alive through the dirt in the streets."

"The conspiracy begins December 25."

"Many saw evil. They dared to stop it."

"Tom Cruise - Colonel"

"- General of Infantry"

"- Colonel General"

"- MG Henning von Tresckow"

"- General Field Marshal"

"- Lieutenant"

"Eddie Izzard -"

"- Adolf Hitler"

"- Dr. Joseph Goebbels"

"- Heinrich Himmler"

"as Colonel"

"- A General working with Stauffenberg in"

"- the composite "Pompous General""

"Gerhard Haase-Hindenberg as Hermann Göring"

"Anton Algrang - Albert Speer"

"Helmut Stauss - judge"

"Matthew Burton - Lieutenant General"

"Everything is under control."

"....is anyone seeing the truth?"

"This summer everything is under control."

"Denzel Washington - Major Bennett Marco"

"Meryl Streep - Senator Eleanor Prentiss Shaw"

"Liev Schreiber - Congressman Raymond Prentiss Shaw"

"Jon Voight - Senator Thomas Jordan"

"Kimberly Elise - Eugenie Rose"

"Vera Farmiga - Jocelyne Jordan"

"Jeffrey Wright - CPL Al Melvin"

"Simon McBurney - Dr. Atticus Noyle"

"Bruno Ganz - Delp"

"Ann Dowd - Congresswoman Beckett"

"Ted Levine - Colonel Howard"

"Miguel Ferrer - Colonel Garret"

"Dean Stockwell - Mark Whiting"

"Charles Napier - General Sloan"

"Jude Ciccolella - David Donovan"

"Tom Stechschulte - Governor Robert "Bob" Arthur"

"Pablo Schreiber - PFC Eddie Ingram"

"Anthony Mackie - PFC Robert Baker III"

"Robyn Hitchcock - Laurence Tokar"

"Obba Babatundé - Senator Wells"

"Željko Ivanek - Vaughn Utly"

"Al Franken - a reporter"

"Sidney Lumet - a political pundit"

"Anna Deavere Smith - a political pundit"

"Roy Blount, Jr. - a political pundit"

"Fab Five Freddy - a political pundit"

"Roger Corman - the Secretary of State"

"Beau Sia (on a TV screen) - a presenter"

"Gayle King (on a TV screen) - a presenter"

"I'm loud, darling, but never cheap."

"I can take it Jimmy. Just not in the face."

"Play At Your Own Risk."

"The movie everyone is talking about... But no one is giving away its secrets."

"Stephen Rea - Fergus/Jimmy"

"Jaye Davidson - Dil"

"Forest Whitaker - Jody"

"Miranda Richardson - Jude"

"Adrian Dunbar -Maguire"

"Breffni McKenna - Tinker"

"Joe Savino - Eddie"

"Birdy Sweeney - Tommy"

"Andrée Bernard - Jane"

"Jim Broadbent - Col"

"Tony Slattery - Deveroux"

"This is really wonderful. If we go along with you and lie our asses off, the world of truth and ideals is, er, protected. But if we don't want to take part in some giant rip-off of yours then somehow or other we're managing to ruin the country. You're pretty good, Jim. I'll give you that."

"Anybody hungry? Oh, the marvels of American science. Here we are millions of miles from earth, and we can still send out for pizza."

"[after the astronauts have been removed from the rocket before the launch] Hey, Dr. Kelloway. Funny thing happened on the way to Mars."

"Okay, here it is. I have to start by saying that if there was any other way, if there was even a slight chance of another alternative, I would give anything not to be here with you now. Anything. Bru, how long have we known each other? Sixteen years. That's how long. Sixteen years. You should have seen yourself then. You looked like you just walked out of a Wheaties box. And me, all sweaty palm and deadly serious. I told everybody about this dream I had of conquering the new frontier, and they all looked at me like I was nuts. You looked at me and said, "yes." I remember when you told me Kay was pregnant. We went out and got crocked. I remember when Charles was born. We went out and got crocked again. The two of us. Captain Terrific and the Mad Doctor, talking about reaching the stars, and the bartender telling us maybe we'd had enough. Sixteen years. And then Armstrong stepped out on the Moon, and we cried. We were so proud. Willis, you and Walker, you came in about then. Both bright and talented wise-asses, looked at me in my wash-and-wear shirt carrying on this hot love affair with my slide-rule, and even you were caught up in what we'd done. I remember when Glenn made his first orbit in Mercury, they put up television sets in Grand Central Station, and tens of thousands of people missed their trains to watch. You know when Apollo 17 landed on the Moon, people were calling up the networks and bitching because reruns of I Love Lucy were cancelled. Reruns, for Christ's sake! I could understand if it was the new Lucy show. After all, what's a walk on the Moon? But reruns! Oh, geez! And then suddenly everybody started talking about how much everything cost. Was it really worth 20 billion to go to another planet? What about cancer? What about the slums? How much does it cost? How much does any dream cost, for Christ's sake? Since when is there an accountant for ideas? You know who was at the launch today? Not the President. The Vice-President, that's who. The Vice-President and his plump wife. The President was busy. He's not busy. He's just a little bit scared. He sat there two months ago and put his feet up on Woodrow Wilson's desk, and he said, "Jim. Make it good. Congress is on my back. They're looking for a reason to cancel the program. We can't afford another screw-up. Make it good. You have my every good wish." His every good wish! I got his sanctimonious Vice-President! That's what I got! So, there we are. After all those hopes and all that dreaming, he sits there, with those flags behind his chair, and tells me we can't afford a screw-up. And guess what! We had a screw-up! A first-class, bona-fide, made-in-America screw-up! The good people from Con-Amalgamate delivered a life-support system cheap enough so they could make a profit on the deal. Works out fine for everybody. Con-Amalgamate makes money. We have our life-support system. Everything's peachy. Except they made a little bit too much profit. We found out two months ago it won't work. You guys would all be dead in three weeks. It's as simple as that. So, all I have to do is report that and scrub the mission. Congress has its excuse, the President still has his desk, and we have no more program. What's 16 years? Your actual drop in the bucket! All right. That's the end of the speech. Now, we're getting to what they call the moment of truth. Come with me. I want to show you something."

"You think it's all a couple of loony scientists, it's not! It's bigger. There are people out there, forces out there, who have a lot to lose. They're grown ups. It's gotten too big, it's in the hands of grown ups!"

"Walter Loughlin: You're fired! Oh, I love how that sounds. I love that so much I'm going to say it again. You're fired. You're through. Oh, I love it!"

"The mission was a sham. The murders were real."

"Would you be shocked to find out that the greatest moment of our recent history may not have happened at all?"

"The most important event in our nation's history—what if it never really happened? (trailer only)."

"Elliott Gould - Robert Caulfield"

"James Brolin - Colonel Charles Brubaker, USAF"

"Sam Waterston - Lieutenant Colonel Peter Willis, USAF"

"O. J. Simpson - Commander John Walker, USN"

"Hal Holbrook - Dr. James Kelloway"

"Brenda Vaccaro - Kay Brubaker"

"Karen Black - Judy Drinkwater"

"David Doyle - Walter Loughlin"

"Robert Walden - Elliot Whitter"

"Telly Savalas - Albain"

"David Huddleston - Congressman Hollis Peaker"

"It's like it's a marriage of convenience and all it produces are dead offspring."

"Sorry, I've just got one question: Whose map is Britain using when it completely ignores the United Nations and decides to invade Iraq? Or do you think it's more diplomatic to bend to the will of a superpower and politely take part in Vietnam the Sequel?"

"They're a drug company, Arnold. Come on, no drug company does something for nothing."

"Big pharmaceuticals are right up there with the arms dealers."

"I only give the food to the women, Mr. Black. Women make the homes, men just make wars... and hooch. Adam was God's first draft – He got it right with Eve. Tell that to your readers, Mr. Black."

"Do you no good to go poking around under rocks, Justin. Some very nasty things live under rocks, especially in foreign gardens."

"So who has got away with murder? Not, of course, the British government. They merely covered up, as one does, the offensive corpses. Though not literally. That was done by person or persons unknown. So who has committed murder? Not, of course, the highly respectable firm of KDH Pharmaceutical, which has enjoyed record profits this quarter, and has now licensed ZimbaMed of Harare, to continue testing Dypraxa in Africa. No, there are no murders in Africa. Only regrettable deaths. And from those deaths we derive the benefits of civilization, benefits we can afford so easily... because those lives were bought so cheaply."

"[on drug trials] Put $50,000 in the right hands and you can test battery acid as skin lotion."

"Ralph Fiennes – Justin Quayle"

"Rachel Weisz – Tessa Quayle"

"Hubert Koundé – Dr. Arnold Bluhm"

"Danny Huston – Sandy Woodrow"

"Bill Nighy – Sir Bernard Pellegrin"

"Archie Panjabi – Ghita Pearson"

"John Sibi-Okumu – Dr. Joshua Ngaba"

"Pete Postlethwaite – Dr. Lorbeer / Dr. Brandt"

"Richard McCabe – Arthur "Ham" Hammond"

"Anneke Kim Sarnau – Birgit"

"Donald Sumpter – Tim Donohue"

"Gerard McSorley – Sir Kenneth 'Kenny' Curtiss"

"This is a once in a lifetime job. Whoever does it can never work again."

"Nameless, faceless...relentlessly moving towards the date with death that would rock the world."

"The Jackal spent 71 days, 56 minutes thinking a bullet into the brain of de Gaulle."

"Edward Fox - The Jackal"

"Terence Alexander - Lloyd"

"Michel Auclair - Colonel Rolland"

"Eric Porter - Colonel Rodin"

"Alan Badel - The Minister"

"Tony Britton - Inspector Thomas"

"Denis Carey - Casson"

"Adrien Cayla-Legrand - The President"

"Cyril Cusack - The Gunsmith"

"Maurice Denham - General Colbert"

"Vernon Dobtcheff - The Interrogator"

"David Swift - Montclair"

"Donald Sinden - Mallinson"

"Derek Jacobi - Caron"

"Michael Lonsdale - Lebel"

"Ronald Pickup as the Forger"

"Bakunin? Bakunin was a terrorist monster. You are not an authority on Bakunin just because you used to date every terrorist in Soviet Russia, that does not make you an authority."

"Do you know why being a revolutionary doesn't work in this country? Being a revolutionary in America is like being a spoil sport at an orgy. All these goodies being passed around and you feel like a shit when you say no."

"Hey, man! I can write copy faster than any alcoholic on this floor!"

"Richard Dreyfuss - Moses Wine"

"Susan Anspach - Lila Shea"

"Bonnie Bedelia - Suzanne"

"John Lithgow - Sam Sebastian"

"Ofelia Medina - Alora"

"Nicolas Coster - Spitzer"

"F. Murray Abraham - Howard Eppis"

"Fritz Weaver - Oscar Procari, Sr."

"Ron Rifkin - Randy Esterhaus"

"What did happen to you that day? Only one agent reacted to the gunfire, and you were closer to Kennedy than he was. You must have looked up at the window of the Texas Book Depository, but you didn't react. Late at night, when the demons come, do you see the rifle coming out of that window, or do you see Kennedy's head being blown apart? If you'd reacted to that first shot, could you have gotten there in time to stop the big bullet? And if you had - that could've been your head being blown apart. Do you wish you'd succeeded, Frank? Or is life too precious?"

"[last words, left on Frank's answering machine] Hello, Frank. By the time you hear this, it'll be over. The President is most likely dead, and so am I. I wonder, Frank, did you kill me? Who won our game? Not that it really matters, for among friends like you and me, it's not whether you win or lose but how you play the game, and now the game is done and it's time to get on with your life. But I worry, that you have no life to get on with, Frank. You're a good man, and good men like you and me are destined to travel a lonely road. Goodbye, and good luck."

"[at the Lincoln Memorial] Well, Abe? ...Damn. Wish I could have been there for you, pal."

"For years, I've been listening to all these idiots on barstools with all their pet theories on Dallas. How it was the Cubans, or the C.I.A., or the white supremacists, or the Mob. Whether there was one weapon, or whether there was five. None of that's meant too much to me. But Leary, he questioned whether I had the guts to take that fatal bullet. God, that was a beautiful day. The sun was out, been raining all morning, the air was... First shot, sounded like a firecracker. I looked over, I saw him, I could tell he was hit. I don't know why I didn't react. I should have reacted. I should have been running flat out. I just couldn't believe it. If only I'd reacted, I could have taken that shot. And that would have been alright with me."

"Clint Eastwood - Frank Horrigan"

"John Malkovich - Mitch Leary"

"Rene Russo - Lilly Raines"

"Dylan McDermott - Al D'Andrea"

"Gary Cole - Bill Watts"

"Fred Dalton Thompson - White House Chief of Staff Harry Sargent"

"John Mahoney - Sam Campagna"

"Gregory Alan Williams - Matt Wilder"

"Clyde Kusatsu - FBI agent Jack Okura"

"Steve Hytner - FBI agent Tony Carducci"

"Patrika Darbo - Pam Magnus"

"John Heard - Prof. Riger"

"Joshua Malina - Secret Service Agent Chavez"

"Steve Railsback - CIA Agent David Coppinger"

"I am supposed to keep my mouth shut and uncover Topaz? At the risk of my own skin? That's quite a job, my friends."

"There are no color bars in Cuba. We're a free and democratic nation. All men are comrades."

"I'll never leave here. I am Cuban. I love my country. No matter what, I have to see it through."

"You are being a damn fool. You have made up a story because it's what you want to believe, because of me! I don't believe he had any contact with your man Uribe. I don't think anyone else will! If you are doing him any harm, I will raise such hell. And you know I can."

"Oh, the Cubans. I love the Cubans. They are so wild!"

"I've been shot...Just a little."

"Frederick Stafford - André Devereaux"

"Dany Robin - Nicole Devereaux"

"John Vernon - Rico Parra"

"Karin Dor - Juanita de Cordoba"

"Claude Jade - Michèle Picard"

"Michel Subor - Francois Picard"

"Michel Piccoli - Jacques Granville"

"Philippe Noiret - Henri Jarré"

"Roscoe Lee Browne - Philippe Dubois"

"Per-Axel Arosenius - Boris Kusenov"

"John Forsythe - Michael Nordstrom"

"Edmon Ryan - McKittreck"

"[to Lawrie Dayne] At least tell me how it happened. How does this happ... how does someone like you write something that's not true? Tell me."

"[to Miller] It is not for you to decide what happens here."

"Your government wanted to hear the lie Mr. Miller... they wanted Saddam out and they did exactly what they had to do... this is why you are here..."

"[to Poundstone] You cannot just hand this country over to an exile no one's ever heard of, and a bunch of interns from Washington."

"Matt Damon - Chief Warrant Officer Roy Miller"

"Amy Ryan - Lawrie Dayne"

"Brendan Gleeson - Martin Brown"

"Greg Kinnear - Clark Poundstone"

"Yigal Naor - General Mohammed Al-Rawi"

"Jason Isaacs - Maj. Briggs"

"Martin McDougall - Mr. Sheen"

"Khalid Abdalla - Freddy"

"Michael O'Neill - Colonel Bethel"

"Antoni Corone - Colonel Lyons"

"Tommy Campbell - Chopper Comms Commander"

"Sean Huze - U.S. Army Sergeant Conway"

"[after splitting an associate's head with an axe] I loved this man like a brother. He was a dear friend and partner to me... so I took no joy in that. But just think, if I can do this to someone I love, imagine what I can do with someone I hate! So, the American FBI declares war on us? Then war it is."

"Nazarene, charlatan, what can you offer humanity? Since the hour you vomited forth from the gaping wound of a woman, you have done nothing but drown man's soaring desires in a deluge of sanctimonious morality. You've inflamed the pubertal mind of youth with your repellent dogma of original sin. And now you absolve in denying them the ultimate joy beyond death by destroying me? But you will fail, Nazarene, as you have always failed. We were both created in man's image, but while you were born of an impotent god, I was conceived of a jackal. Born of Satan, the desolate one. Your pain on the cross was but a splinter compared to the agony of my father. Cast out of heaven, the fallen angel, banished, reviled. I will drive deeper the thorns into your rancid carcass, you profaner of Isis. Cursed Nazarene. Satan, I will avenge thy torment, by destroying the Christ forever."

"Disciples of the Watch- I stand before you; in the name of the one True God, who was cast out from heaven, but is alive in me. Do you hear me? [Crowd answers: "We hear and obey."] I command you now to seek out and destroy the Nazarene child. Slay the Nazarene and I reign forever. Fail, and I perish. Slay the Nazarene and you, my disciples, shall truly inherit this earth! Fail and you will be condemned to a numbing eternity in the flaccid bosom of Christ. Do you hear me? Disciples of the Watch: there must be no delay. Slay the Nazarene and victory shall be ours, now and forevermore. Do you hear me?"

"Most people confuse evil with their own trivial lusts and perversions. Now, true evil is as pure as innocence."

"[Last words] Nazarene, you have won... nothing. [Collapses and dies]"

"I'm still trying to figure out if you're supposed to kill me or give me a pep-talk."

"What I'm going to do is wait for the next person to show up to kill you. Maybe they can help me."

"I'm not gonna sit here and argue with you. I'm gonna call your boss and we're gonna figure it out."

"We belong here."

"Well, if you're going to reprogram human genetic material, you need a delivery system, and nothing works better than virus. It's like a suitcase."

"We're here talking about a serious infection, and all we're trying to do is determine how far it's spread so that we know how much we have to cut to save the patient. You have never heard of Treadstone. And Bourne -- I don't care if they bag him and drop the body on the sidewalk, we're not gonna touch it."

"We are the sin eaters. It means that we take the moral excrement we find in this equation and we bury it down deep inside of us, so that the rest of our case can stay pure. That is the job. We are morally indefensible, and absolutely necessary."

"You were given a Ferrari and your people treated it like a lawnmower."

"There Was Never Just One"

"Jeremy Renner - Aaron Cross/Kenneth Kitsom"

"Rachel Weisz - Dr. Marta Shearing"

"Edward Norton - Eric Byer"

"Joan Allen - Deputy Director Pamela Landy"

"David Strathairn - Noah Vosen"

"Albert Finney - Dr. Albert Hirsch"

"Scott Glenn - Ezra Kramer"

"Oscar Isaac - Number Three"

"Donna Murphy - Dita"

"Stacy Keach - Mark Turso"

"Zeljko Ivanek - Dr. Donald Foite"

"Corey Stoll - Vendel"

"David Asmar - Evan Pines"

"John Arcilla - The Security Guard"

"Lou Veloso - The Fisher Man"

"If I'm going to make a fake movie, it's going to be a fake hit."

"[Explaining the lack of fanfare regarding the awarding of Mendez' Intelligence Star] If we wanted applause, we would have joined the circus."

"[To Tony Mendez] If you're going to do a $20 million Star Wars rip-off, you need somebody who's a somebody to put their name on it. Somebody respectable. With credits. Who you can trust with classified information. Who will produce a fake movie. For free."

"The movie was fake. The mission was real."

"They weren’t making a movie, they were making history."

"The most important movie of all time ... was never made."

"Based on a declassified true story."

"Ben Affleck - Tony Mendez"

"Bryan Cranston - Jack O'Donnell"

"Alan Arkin - Lester Siegel"

"John Goodman - John Chambers"

"Clea DuVall - Cora Lijek"

"Kyle Chandler - Hamilton Jordan"

"Victor Garber - Ken Taylor"

"Tate Donovan - Bob Anders"

"Michael Parks - Jack Kirby"

"Tom Lenk - Rodd"

"Christopher Stanley - Tom Ahern"

"Taylor Schilling - Christine Mendez"

"Sheila Vand - Sahar"

"Chris Messina - Malinov"

"Richard Kind - Max Klein"

"Titus Welliver - Jon Bates"

"Rory Cochrane - Lee Schatz"

"Omid Abtahi - Reza"

"Scoot McNairy - Joe Stafford"

"Kerry Bishé - Kathy Stafford"

"Bob Gunton - Cyrus Vance"

"Adrienne Barbeau - Nina"

"Fouad Hajji - Komiteh"

"[first words by older self in original timeline] The future: a dark, desolate world. A world of war, suffering, loss on both sides. Mutants, and the humans who dared to help them, fighting an enemy we cannot defeat. Are we destined down this path, destined to destroy ourselves like so many species before us? Or can we evolve fast enough to change ourselves... change our fate? Is the future truly set?"

"[last words by younger self in revised timeline] The past: a new and uncertain world. A world of endless possibilities and infinite outcomes. Countless choices define our fate: each choice, each moment, a ripple in the river of time. Enough ripples, and you change the tide... for the future is never truly set."

"His past. Our future."

"Every hero, every power will unite."

"The future begins."

"It doesn't matter what others think. You know what you did."

"Everyone will hate me, but at least I'll lose."

"We need to get off this merry-go-round sir. The next mistake our countries make could be the last one. We need to have the conversation our governments can't."

"Well, the boss isn't always right. But, he's always the boss."

"What's the next move when you don't know what the game is?"

"Would it help?"

"Agent Williams: We are engaged in a war. This war does not for the moment involve men at arms; it involves information. You will be collecting information. You will be gathering intelligence about the enemy. The intelligence you gather could give us the upper hand in a full thermonuclear exchange with the Soviet Union, or it could prevent one. For public purposes, as far as your wife or mother or sweetheart or the good lord above, your mission does not exist. if it does not exist, you do not exist. You cannot be shot down. You cannot be captured."

"In a world on the brink the difference between war and peace was one honest man."

"In the shadow of war, one man showed the world what we stand for."

"Tom Hanks - James B. Donovan"

"Mark Rylance - Rudolf Abel"

"Scott Shepherd - Hoffman"

"Amy Ryan - Mary McKenna Donovan"

"Sebastian Koch - Wolfgang Vogel"

"Alan Alda - Thomas Watters"

"Austin Stowell - Francis Gary Powers"

"Billy Magnussen - Doug Forrester"

"Eve Hewson - Carol Donovan"

"Jillian Lebling - Peggy Donovan"

"Noah Schnapp - Roger Donovan"

"Jesse Plemons - Murphy"

"Michael Gaston - Williams"

"Peter McRobbie - Allen Dulles"

"Domenick Lombardozzi - Agent Blasco"

"Will Rogers - Frederic Pryor"

"Dakin Matthews - Judge Mortimer W. Byers"

"Stephen Kunken - William Tompkins"

"Joshua Harto - Bates"

"Mark Zak - Soviet Judge"

"Edward James Hyland - Chief Justice Earl Warren"

"Mikhail Gorevoy - Ivan Alexandrovich Schischkin"

""Bless me"? Do you know what God did for me? He threw an 18-wheeled truck at me and bounced me into nowhere for five years! When I woke up, my girl was gone, my job was gone, my legs are just about useless... Blessed me? God's been a real sport to me!"

"I need your support, I need your expertise, I need your input, and most importantly, I need your money. [laughter]"

"I have had a vision that I am going to be President of the United States someday. And nobody, and I mean nobody is going to stop me!"

"Let's send Greg Stillson to the United States Senate - and mediocrity to hell!"

"The missiles are flying. Hallelujah, hallelujah."

"He can see the future. But can he escape it?"

"In his mind, he has the power to see the future. In his hands, he has the power to change it."

"Christopher Walken - Johnny Smith"

"Brooke Adams - Sarah Bracknell"

"Tom Skerritt - Sheriff Bannerman"

"Herbert Lom - Dr. Sam Weizak"

"Anthony Zerbe - Roger Stuart"

"Colleen Dewhurst - Henrietta Dodd"

"Martin Sheen - Greg Stillson"

"Nicholas Campbell - Deputy Frank Dodd"

"Simon Craig - Chris Stuart"

"Géza Kovács - Sonny"

"[to Sally] So you got your choice. You can be crazy or dead."

"[last line] It's a good scream. It's a good scream."

"Ya know, the only trouble I ever got into was when I was too careful!"

"I get paid to smile my ass off and show the 27 different color lipsticks they're pushin'. You know how much I make? Shit is what I make. And I sure as hell can't type. So it doesn't leave a helluva lot, you know?"

"Sam: Look, Jack, I didn't hire that girl for her scream. I hired her for her tits."

"Murder has a sound all of its own!"

"The Blow Out took them to the edge of terror . . . his questions took them way beyond."

"John Travolta - Jack Terry"

"Nancy Allen - Sally"

"John Lithgow - Burke"

"Dennis Franz - Manny Karp"

"Peter Boyden - Sam"

"Curt May - Donahue"

"John Aquino - Detective Mackey"

"John McMartin - Lawrence Henry"

"It takes a scientist to pick a scientist's brain."

"I was able to combine mathematical logic with romantic inconsistency."

"I've often wondered if you professionals know what you're looking for when you go in and steal secret papers."

"We will produce a defensive weapon that will make all offensive nuclear weapons obsolete, and thereby abolish the terror of nuclear warfare."

"Against all the evidence, Michael, I'd say you had a very unscientific mind."

"[offering Armstrong a cigar] Havana. Your loss, our gain."

"Don't look so worried, my darling girl. You are quite safe with me. I am not communistical."

"Professor Gustav Lindt: You told me nothing. You know nothing. I forbid you to leave this room!"

"Prof. Olaf Hengström: Well, I hope you're looking forward to our lunch. This hotel has an excellent smorgasbord. You know, Miss Sherman, I've often wondered why one of the leading hotels in Denmark should be called the "Hotel of England" in the French language. I suppose it's the ideal title for an international hotel."

"Farmer: [describing Armstrong's contact] You'll recognize him. He has red hair which is not his own, and his name is Hugo. But don't give him that money until after you've landed."

"It tears you apart with suspense!"

"Suspense! Action! Surprise!"

"Paul Newman — Professor Michael Armstrong"

"Julie Andrews — Sarah Sherman"

"Lila Kedrova — Countess Kuchinska"

"Hansjörg Felmy — Heinrich Gerhard"

"Tamara Toumanova — Ballerina"

"Wolfgang Kieling — Hermann Gromek"

"Ludwig Donath — Professor Gustav Lindt"

"Günter Strack — Professor Karl Manfred"

"David Opatoshu — Mr. Jacobi"

"Gisela Fischer — Dr. Koska"

"Mort Mills — Farmer"

"Carolyn Conwell — Farmer's Wife"

"Arthur Gould-Porter — Freddy, the Bookseller"

"I lost my package, a prisoner I was bringing back from Germany."

"Who is Walter Henke?"

"Terrorists sir? They were pretty well organized. It was like a military operation."

"Who the hell knows what is the truth and what is a lie?"

"Why would he want to smuggle himself in?"

"[to Col. Whitacre] You and I, we're in separate armies, pal - but you're out in the light now, and I'm gonna see you get stepped on!"

"The point, John, is that the Soviets and the American military industrial complex has the entire flag waving patriotic world right by the balls."

"Col. Glen Whitacre: There hasn't been a world war in over forty years, Sergeant! You ever wonder why? Because of nuclear weapons. We want them, the Soviets want them."

"He's one man racing against time to stop the most explosive conspiracy in history."

"Gene Hackman is up against Tommy Lee Jones. Let the best man win!"

"Gene Hackman - U.S. Army Master Sergeant Johnny Gallagher"

"Joanna Cassidy - U.S. Army Lieutenant Colonel Eileen Gallagher"

"Tommy Lee Jones - Thomas Boyette"

"John Heard - U.S. Army Colonel Glen Whitacre"

"Dennis Franz - Chicago Police Lieutenant Milan Delich"

"Pam Grier - U.S. Army 1st Lieutenant Ruth Butler"

"Reni Santoni - Chicago Police lieutenant"

"Ron Dean - Karl Richards"

"Ike Pappas - himself"

"Carlos Sanz - Johnny's Field Soldier"

"Cody Glenn - Johnny's Field Soldier"

"Harry Lennix - Johnny's Field Soldier"

"Chelcie Ross - General Hopkins"

"Nathan Davis - Soviet Press Secretary"

"I think the signing of a nuclear disarmament pact with the Soviet Union is at best an act of naivete, and at worst an unsupportable negligence. We've stayed alive because we've built up an arsenal, and we've kept the peace because we've dealt with an enemy who knew we would use that arsenal. And now we're asked to believe that a piece of paper will take the place of missile sites and Polaris submarines, and that an enemy who hasn't honored one solemn treaty in the history of its existence will now, for our convenience, do precisely that. I have strong doubts, gentlemen."

"There hasn't been a single piece of paper written in the history of mankind that could serve as a deterrent to a Pearl Harbor. I sometimes wonder why we haven't learned that lesson by now. Every 20 years or so we have to pick ourselves up off the floor bleeding and pay for that mistake. Those mistakes are delivered to us C.O.D. by peace loving men. And bought and paid for with the lives of other men. Men in uniform."

"[introducing his dog Trimmer to Col. Casey] Trimmer is a very political dog. He doesn't have many principles, but he's loyal to his friends."

"All you've got to know is this: right now the government of the United States is sitting on top of the Washington Monument, right on the very point, tilting right and left and ready to fall off and break up on the pavement. There are just a handful of men that can prevent it. And you're one of them."

"You stay put right here... I'm going to phone the White House. Tell you what, friend: when this is over you can take off your girdle and have yourself a real good cry. Say, uh, you got a dime to stop a revolution with?"

"Jordy Boy, right now, short of a Confederate miracle, you're going to be walking in a parade with both your legs cut off. But I'm not going to make matters worse by getting drunk on the job."

"Yes, I know who Judas was. He was a man I worked for and admired until he disgraced the four stars on his uniform."

"I'll make you two promises: a very good steak, medium rare, and the truth, which is very rare."

"Senator Frederick Prentice: Ah, it's as simple as this: the President trusts Russia, and the American people don't. The people don't believe the Russians're going to take those bombs apart on July 1st, and neither do I."

"Colonel William "Mutt" Henderson: We seem to spend more time training for seizure than for prevention, like the Commies already had the stuff, and we had to get it back."

"Christopher Todd: That could easily mean another place. These military games... why, the multiplicity of our secret bases confuses ourselves more than the Soviets."

"I'm suggesting Mr President, there's a military plot to take over the Government of these United States, next Sunday..."

"Burt Lancaster - General James Mattoon Scott"

"Kirk Douglas - Colonel Jiggs Casey"

"Fredric March - President Jordan Lyman"

"Ava Gardner - Eleanor Holbrook"

"Edmond O'Brien - Senator Raymond Clark"

"Martin Balsam - Paul Girard"

"Andrew Duggan - Colonel Mutt Henderson"

"Hugh Marlowe - Harold McPherson"

"Whit Bissell - Senator Frederick Prentice"

"Helen Kleeb - Esther Townsend"

"George Macready - Christopher Todd"

"Richard Anderson - Colonel Ben Murdock"

"Bart Burns - Art Corwin"

"You ever hear about the Nuremberg trials, Trev? They weren't that long ago. Yeah, well, the big shots were the first trial, but then the next trial were just the judges, and lawyers, and policemen, and guards, and ordinary people just doing their jobs, following orders. That's where we got the Nuremberg principles, which then the UN made into international law, just in case ordinary jobs become criminal again."

"I think the greatest freedom that I have gained, the fact that I don't have to worry about what happens tomorrow, Because I'm happy with what I've done today."

"And ultimately, the truth sinks in that no matter what justification you're selling yourself, this is not about terrorism. Terrorism is the excuse. This is about economic and social control. And the only thing you're really protecting is the supremacy of your government."

"You didn't tell me we were running a dragnet on the whole world, Corbin."

"No matter who you are, every day of your life, you're sitting in a database just ready to be looked at."

"And it's just gonna get worse for the next generation, as they extend the capabilities of this sort of architecture of oppression."

"Look, Mr. MacAskill, uh, this is not about money or anything for me. There's no hidden agenda. I just wanted to get this data to established journalists like yourselves, so that you can present it to the world, and the people can decide either I'm wrong or there's something going on inside the government that's really wrong."

"The modern battlefield is everywhere."

"In 20 years, Iraq will be a hellhole nobody cares about. Terrorism's a short-term threat. The real threats will come from China, Russia, Iran. and they'll come as SQL injections and malware. Without minds like yours, this country will be torn apart in cyberspace."

"Bombs won't stop terrorism, brains will, and we don't have nearly enough of those. I'm gonna give you a shot, Snowden."

"Secrecy is security and security is victory."

"Most Americans don't want freedom, they want security."

"[about the Cray-1.] The first supercomputer. You can get all of this on a cell phone now."

"Sometimes, the more you look, the less you see."

"You would think intelligence would count for something in the intelligence business. Right. But you wanna know what it really is? What really sets the agenda? Military industrial happiness management. You keep the coffers open in Congress, you keep the money flowing to the contractors."

"Gabriel Sol: Optic Nerve. It's camera and mic activation. I wish we could take credit, but the Brits wrote it. Yeah, her laptop's off. Or was, she just forgot to close it. Of course, how would she know? This shit is so sly, the webcam light doesn't even turn on."

"One nation under surveillance for liberty and justice for all."

"The only safe place is on the run."

"It's a very strange thing to do [a story about] an American man, and not be able to finance this movie in America. And that's very disturbing, if you think about its implications on any subject that is not overtly pro-American. They say we have freedom of expression; but thought is financed, and thought is controlled, and the media is controlled. This country is very tight on that, and there’s no criticism allowed at a certain level. You can make movies about civil rights leaders who are dead, but it’s not easy to make one about a current man."

"Joseph Gordon-Levitt — Edward Snowden"

"Shailene Woodley — Lindsay Mills"

"Melissa Leo — Laura Poitras"

"Zachary Quinto — Glenn Greenwald"

"Tom Wilkinson — Ewen MacAskill"

"Scott Eastwood — Trevor James"

"Logan Marshall-Green — Male Drone Pilot"

"Timothy Olyphant — CIA Agent Geneva"

"Ben Schnetzer — Gabriel Sol"

"LaKeith Lee Stanfield — Patrick Haynes"

"Rhys Ifans — Corbin O’Brian"

"Nicolas Cage — Hank Forrester"

"Joely Richardson — Janine Gibson"

"Edward Snowden — himself"

"Robert Firth — Dr. Stillwell"

"Listen, I know I look a fool, but there's something fishy going on around here. There's a big story in this. I can smell it, I can feel it, and I'm gonna get to the bottom of it if it's the last thing I do. Nothing's gonna stop me. Do you understand? I'm gonna prove that that wasn't Van Meer that was assassinated, but his double."

"Well, there but for the grace of God. I still don't know what instinct made me step aside when he came at me...I heard the lift coming up, and I turned. I saw that look in his eyes as he came toward me. In that split second, the whole thing flashed through my mind. All I could think of was Fisher. Fisher planned this. Then I guess I just stepped aside and over he went."

"I'm in love with a girl, and I'm going to help hang her father."

"It's lovely, isn't it? Sort of makes you forget all about the war and troubles. It would be nice if we could just keep flying for a long time, live in the clouds."

"I think the world has been run long enough by well-meaning professionals. We might give the amateurs a chance now."

"Stephen Fisher: I have fought for my country, in my heart, in a very difficult way; because, sometimes it is harder to fight dishonourably than nobly in the open."

"Van Meer: I see now. There's no help. No help for the whole poor suffering world. You cry peace, Fisher. Peace. And there was no peace. Only war and death. You're a liar, Fisher. A cruel, cruel liar. You can do what you want with me. That's not important. But you'll never conquer them, Fisher. Little people everywhere who give crumbs to birds. Lie to them. Drive them, whip them, force them into war. When the beasts like you will devour each other, then the world will belong to the little people."

"The thrill spectacle of the year!"

"MYSTERY IN WHISPERS that cracks like THUNDER!"

"Joel McCrea - John Jones aka Huntley Haverstock"

"Laraine Day - Carol Fisher"

"Herbert Marshall - Stephen Fisher"

"George Sanders - Scott ffolliott"

"Albert Bassermann - Van Meer"

"Robert Benchley - Stebbins"

"Edmund Gwenn - Rowley"

"Eduardo Ciannelli - Mr. Krug"

"Harry Davenport - Mr. Powers"

"Martin Kosleck - Tramp"

"Ian Wolfe - Stiles"

"Charles Wagenheim - Assassin"

"Charles Halton - Bradley"

"Barbara Pepper - Dorine"

"Hey! What's going on? I'm Teddy Jackson, and I welcome you guys to my first ever non-contact boxing class. It's called Teddy-box. It's all the "wow" without the "ow"."

"Welcome. Welcome to Teddybox. I, of course, am Teddy Jackson, and guess what? Here, the only opponent is yourself. Don't you forget it."

"I was raised by my grandfather on a frozen lake 50 miles from nowhere. He was a kind man. He taught me many useful things."

"Hitman meets Dead Man."

"Kevin Hart as Teddy"

"Woody Harrelson as "The Man from Toronto""

"Jasmine Mathews as Lori"

"as Agent Lawrence"

"as Agent Davis"

"Alejandro de Hoyos as Colonel Marin"

"as Daniela Marin"

"as The Handler"

"as "The Man from Miami""

"as "The Man from Tokyo""

"as "The Man from Moscow""

"Glenn Ennis, Justin Howell and Nathaniel Shuker as The Tacoma Brothers, collectively known as "The Man from Tacoma""

"as Agent Santoro"

"Martin Roach as Marty"

"It's all in the mind, sergeant. That's where the battle's won."

"You wanted to go through the looking glass. How was it? Was it more fun than miniature golf?"

"Honey, you got all the slack in the world until I leave this room. Then I'm gonna zero you out."

"There was a king, and he had a daughter, and she was abducted. The king, he swore to protect her, but while he was indulging himself shamefully, she was abducted. Now, the king's advisors, they knew that if she came home, she would reveal the king's shame to the country. So they told the king that she was dead."

"There's an Army depending on us for the truth. You can lie to anyone else. Never lie to a Ranger."

"Agent Jones: Do you wanna gossip or do you wanna shoot somebody?"

"Val Kilmer - Master Gunnery Sergeant John / Bobby Scott"

"Derek Luke - Curtis"

"Tia Texada - Sergeant Jacqueline Black"

"Kristen Bell - First Daughter Laura Newton"

"Lionel Mark Smith - Colonel Blane"

"Johnny Messner - Sergeant Grace"

"Ed O'Neill - Robert Burch"

"William H. Macy - Stoddard"

"Saïd Taghmaoui - Tariq Asani"

"Clark Gregg - Agent Miller"

"Natalia Nogulich - Nadya Tellich"

"Moshe Ivgy - Avi"

"Kick Gurry - Agent Jones"

"Geoff Pierson - Agent Pearce"

"Vincent Guastaferro - Agent Naylor"

"Andy Davoli - Jerry Zimmer"

"Aaron Stanford - Michael Blake"

"Margot Farley - Young Prostitute"

"I'm going to need a couple of jars of jelly on the plane and two parachutes."

"[To Kelly] It's like you're a double-agent! It's like you're working against me!"

"This man is Arnold Gundars, premiere arms dealer. We believe he has the switchblade."

"[In a sexually aggressive way, Rachel slams Alex against a wall and then down on a cot] Oh! I think you broke my spine. [Rachel laughs] But in a good way."

"[To Kelly] That's the type of thing we're gonna be doing on the mission."

"What you're about to hear is a national secret."

"[Looking over list] This is a who's who of the international bad boys club."

"Don't tell anyone."

"The switchblade is undetectable through radar, infra red, even the human eye."

"[To Alex] Hey, come on now. Hey, come on now. Let me at least see the goods."

"[To Alex] Let me show you something a little Kelly Robinson style. Hold on, here we go!"

"[High on gas fumes in the sewers of Budapest, tearing up, to Alex] We twins."

"Hey, I can see you, and me, and you, and... oh, I like this!"

"I'm 57 and 0 baby."

"Introducing the undisputed champion of the world: Kelly Robinson."

"Eddie Murphy as Kelly"

"Owen Wilson as Alex"

"Famke Janssen as Rachel"

"Malcolm McDowell as Gundars"

"Gary Cole as Carlos"

"Phill Lewis as Jerry"

"Viv Leacock as T.J."

"Keith Dallas as Lunchbox"

"Tate Taylor as Lieutenant Percy"

"Lynda Boyd as Edna"

"Bill Mondy as McIntyre"

"Espionage with attitude."

"Get another field of view"

"[first lines] I remember. I remember everything."

"The next bullet's in your head!"

"I volunteered because I thought our enemies killed him. I volunteered because of a lie."

"You were never here."

"[in response to Heather Lee's offer to rejoin the CIA] Let me think about it."

"Let me in. I'll deliver Parsons, the files and, if he's out there, I'll give you Bourne, too."

"I watched Bourne with those files. Desperately looking into his past and... I think he's at a tipping point. If I could get face to face with him. I think I can bring him back in. One attempt. And if it fails, you do what you have to."

"It wasn't supposed to be like this, I wanted to talk."

"You don't have to go after him. This can stop now. You have a choice..."

"I appreciate your enthusiasm. But do not push your personal agenda to the DNI again."

"I have no idea why he came back. But whatever he's doing, he wants to destroy us. We can't let that happen. So you give us a call as soon as you hear anything."

"Jason, your dad was a patriot. He could see the threats that America was facing and, like you, he chose to serve his country out of a profound sense of duty. He would not want to see you harm the Agency. You have to stop this, and you have to stop it now."

"Better get some sleep, kid. You got a long 24 hours ahead of you."

"You're too naive to see the truth, there's no bringing in Bourne. He has to be put down. And you obviously cannot do what has to be done."

"You didn't come here for revenge. You came here because you know it's time to come in."

"Bourne betrayed us; it's always been personal."

"You're a traitor. You've always been a traitor. It's in your blood."

"Nicky Parsons: You've tortured yourself for a long time now, Jason. You've tortured yourself for what you've done. You don't know the truth about what they did to you. You need to read those files."

"Albert Hirsch, quoted in a report on Bourne: When Bourne broke from the Program, he left behind a key component of his identity. In effect, he left behind his reason to exist. In my estimation Bourne will never find peace out in the cold. Eventually he will reach a tipping point. In those circumstances, if played right Bourne could be brought back into the Program."

"Richard Webb: Listen to me, David. I've done something. Something... that came at a cost. One day, you'll understand why."

"Aaron Kalloor: When I was starting out, I, ah... I took money to start my company, made a bargain with a guy in a dark suit, and now he's come back to take my soul."

"You Know His Name."

"Matt Damon - Jason Bourne"

"Julia Stiles - Nicky Parsons"

"Tommy Lee Jones - Robert Dewey"

"- Heather Lee"

"- The Asset"

"- Aaron Kalloor"

"- Craig Jeffers"

"Scott Shepherd - Edwin Russell"

"- Tom Cronin"

"- Malcolm Smith"

"- Christian Dassault"

"- Richard Webb"

"Over the course of many years in the service of our mother the Church, let me tell you — there is one sin which I have come to fear above all others: Certainty. Certainty is the great enemy of unity. Certainty is the deadly enemy of tolerance. Even Christ was not certain at the end: "" he cried out, in his agony, at the ninth hour on the Cross. Our faith is a living thing precisely because it walks hand-in-hand with doubt. If there was only certainty and no doubt, there would be no mystery. And therefore no need for faith. Let us pray that God will grant us a Pope who doubts. And let him grant us a Pope who sins and asks for forgiveness and who carries on."

"What has he offered you? Secretary of State? Five times I cast my vote for you, Aldo. But I was wrong. You lack the courage required to be Pope."

"Is this what we're reduced to? To vote for the least worst option?"

"Although we sisters are supposed to be invisible, God has nevertheless given us eyes and ears."

"The church is not the past. It is what we do next."

"I am what God made me."

"I think again of your sermon. I know what it is to exist... between the world's certainties."

"Ralph Fiennes - Cardinal Thomas Lawrence"

"Stanley Tucci - Cardinal Aldo Bellini"

"John Lithgow - Cardinal Joseph Tremblay"

"Sergio Castellitto - Cardinal Goffredo Tedesco"

"Isabella Rossellini - Sister Agnes"

"Lucian Msamati - Cardinal Joshua Adeyemi"

"Carlos Diehz - Cardinal Vincent Benitez"

"Brían F. O'Byrne - Monsignor Raymond O'Malley"

"Jacek Koman - Archbishop Janusz Woźniak"

"Merab Ninidze - Cardinal Sabbadin"

"Thomas Loibl - Archbishop Mandorff"

"Loris Loddi - Cardinal Villanueva"

"Balkissa Maiga - Sister Shanumi"

"They struck me. Why? Why do the ideas we stand for incite such violence? Why is peace intolerable to them? Why don't they attack other organizations and movements? The answer is simple. The other movements are national, for domestic purposes, and thus leave our allies indifferent..."

"A single cannon is fired and a teacher's monthly salary goes up in smoke."

"Worldwide, there are too many soldiers ready to fire at the slightest display of progress..."

"We live in a weak and corrupt society where it's everyman for himself - Even imagination is suspect, yet it is required to solve the problems of our planet, where the destructive power of stockpiled nuclear warheads equals a ton of dynamite for each person."

"The truth is the start of powerful, united action."

"Our system is not an "-ism." This is a democracy."

"With the outbreak of such "-isms" as socialism, anarchism, imperialism, communism, etc., sunspots began to swarm across the face of the diurnal orb. God casts no light on the Reds. Scientists have announced a major increase in sunspots since the advent of beatniks, Provos, and, most of all, pacifist tendencies from Italy, France and Scandinavia."

"We must preserve the healthy parts of our society and heal the infected parts."

"Always blame the Americans. Even if you're wrong!"

"We have a saying: "A hungry bear doesn't dance.""

"The military regime banned: long hair, miniskirts, Sophocles, Tolstoy, Euripides, Russian-style toasts, strikes, Aristophanes, Ionesco, Sartre, Albee, Pinter, freedom of the press, sociology, Beckett, Dostoyevsky, modern music, pop music, new math, and the letter Z, which means HE LIVES in Ancient Greek."

"Title Card: Any similarity to real persons and events is not coincidental. It is INTENTIONAL."

"Attorney General: As if it's not enough that our country's been invaded by long-haired thugs, atheists and junkies of unclear sex, now you want to disparage our armed forces and courts - the only elements not corrupted by parliamentarianism. Just when we dream of renewal, a country without parties, without Left or Right, heeding God and its destiny, you want to ruin it all."

"Jean-Louis Trintignant - The Examining Magistrate (based on Christos Sartzetakis)"

"Yves Montand - The Deputy (Grigoris Lambrakis) / Z"

"Irene Papas - Helene (Roula Lambrakis – the Deputy's wife)"

"Pierre Dux - The General (Konstantinos Mitsou)"

"Jacques Perrin - Photojournalist (composite character, partly based on Giorgos Bertsos)"

"Charles Denner - Manuel (Manolis Glezos)"

"François Périer - The Public Prosecutor"

"Georges Géret - Nick"

"Bernard Fresson - Matt"

"Marcel Bozzuffi - Vago (Emmanouel Emmannouilidis – man who struck Lambrakis)"

"Julien Guiomar - The Colonel (Efthimios Kamoutsis)"

"Magali Noël - Nick's sister"

"Renato Salvatori - Yago (Spyro Gotzamanis – the driver)"