Syriana

"Mark Strong - Mussawi"

"Max Woodman: I want pig bacon!"

"Mussawi: Rumors of Bob, but never Bob."

"George Clooney — Bob Barnes"

"Matt Damon — Bryan Woodman"

"Amanda Peet - Julie Woodman"

"Christopher Plummer — Dean Whiting"

"Amr Waked - Mohammed Sheik Agiza"

"Jeffrey Wright — Bennett Holiday"

"Chris Cooper — Jimmy Pope"

"Alexander Siddig — Prince Nasir Al-Subaai"

"Tim Blake Nelson — Danny Dalton"

"I want you to take him from his hotel, drug him, put him in the front of a car, and run a truck into it at 50 mph."

"Beirut, it's great! It's like the Paris of the Middle East."

"[to Prince Nasir Al-Subaai] But what do you need a financial advisor for? Twenty years ago you had the highest GNP in the world, now you're tied with Albania. So, good job. Your second largest export is secondhand goods, followed closely by dates for which you lose five cents a pound. You know what the business world thinks of you? They think a hundred years ago you were living in tents out here in the desert chopping each other's heads off and that's exactly where you'll be in another hundred years- so on behalf of my firm, yes, I accept your money."

"Great. How much for my other kid?"

"[to Prince Nasir Al-Subaai] What are they thinking *hah*? What are they thinking? They're thinking that it's running out. It's running out, and 90% of what's left is in the Middle East. Look at the progression: Versailles, Suez, 1973, Gulf War 1, Gulf War 2. This is a fight to the death. So what are THEY thinking? Great! They're thinking keep playing, keep buying yourself new toys, keep spending $50,000 a night on your hotel room, but don't invest in your infrastructure... don't build a real economy. So that when you finally wake up, they will have sucked you dry, and you will have squandered the greatest natural resource in history."

"[to lawyer Bennett Holiday] Some trust fund prosecutor, got off-message at Yale, thinks he's gonna run this up the flagpole, make a name for himself, maybe get elected some two-bit, congressman from nowhere, with the result that Russia or China can suddenly start having, at our expense, all the advantages we enjoy here. No, I tell you. No, sir! Corruption charges! Corruption?!! Corruption is government intrusion into market efficiencies in the form of regulations. That's Milton Friedman. He got a goddamn Nobel Prize. We have laws against it precisely so we can get away with it. Corruption is our protection. Corruption keeps us safe and warm. Corruption is why you and I are prancing around in here instead of fighting over scraps of meat out in the streets. Corruption is why we win."

"[to his father, the emir, about his brother, Prince Meshal Al-Subaai] He's barely qualified to run a brothel, much less a country!"

"[to his political followers] When a country has 5 percent of the world's population but spends 50 percent of the world's military spending, that country's persuasive power is in decline."

"Dean Whiting: [to Prince Meshal Al-Subaai] Are you a king? Can you tell me what you want?"

"Jimmy Pope: Dig six feet, find three bodies. But dig twelve feet, you find forty."

"If anything happens to me or my family, an accident, an accusation, anything, then first your son will disappear, his body will never be found. Then your wife. Her body will never be found either. This is guaranteed. Then, whatever is the most dangerous thing you do in your life, it might be flying in a small plane, it might be walking to the bank, you will be killed. Do you understand what I'm saying? I want you to acknowledge that you do understand so that we're clear and there won't be any mistakes."