Looper (film)

"[voiceover] Time travel has not yet been invented. But thirty years from now, it will have been. It will be instantly outlawed, used only in secret by only the largest criminal organizations. It's nearly impossible to dispose of a body in the future... I'm told. Tagging techniques, whatnot. So when these criminal organizations in the future need someone gone, they use specialized assassins in our present called "Loopers." And so, my employers in the future nab the target, they zap him back to me - their Looper. He appears, hands tied and head sacked, and I do the necessaries. Collect my silver. So the target has vanished from the future, and I've just disposed of a body that technically does not exist. Clean."

"[voiceover] There's a reason we're called Loopers. When we sign up for this job, taking out the future's garbage, we also agree to a very specific proviso. Time travel in the future is so illegal that when our employers want to close our contracts, they'll also want to erase any trace of their relationship with us ever existing. So if we're still alive thirty years from now, they'll find our older self, zap him back to us, and we'll kill him like any other job. This is called "closing your loop." You get a golden payday, a handshake, and you get released from your contract. Enjoy the next thirty years. This job doesn't tend to attract the most forward-thinking people."

"[voiceover, describing Abe] This man is from the future. He was sent back here by the mob, a one-way ticket, to run the Loopers. That's low effort, even for Abe. So to pass the time, he recruited some real muscle, the Gat Men, and now he runs the city. Any other city, that'd be impressive."

"[to Older Joe] This is my life now. I earned it. You had yours already. So why don't you do what old men do and die?"

"[voiceover] Then I saw it. I saw a mom who would die for her son; a man who would kill for his wife; a boy, angry and alone, laid out in front of him the bad path. I saw it. And the path was a circle, round and round. So I changed it. [kills self]"

"[to Young Joe] I don't want to talk about time travel because if we start talking about it then we're going to be here all day talking about it, making diagrams with straws."

"A man from the future runs free long enough, you know, this time travel shit just fries your brain like an egg."

"Ask yourself: who would I sacrifice for what's mine?"

"Joe! Guess I put the gun in that kid's hand, huh? I guess everything comes back around. [under his breath] Like your goddamn ties."

"I'm from the future. You should go to China."

"Kid Blue: [Waving his gun] Know why they call that peashooter of yours a blunderbuss? Because it's impossible to hit anything farther than 15 yards. Impossible to miss anything closer. It's a gun for fuck-up turkeys."

"Hunted by your future. Haunted by your past."

"Face your future. Fight your past."

"Joseph Gordon-Levitt - Young (25-year old) Joe Simmons"

"Bruce Willis - Older (55-year old) Joe Simmons"

"Emily Blunt - Sara Rollins"

"Paul Dano - Seth Richards"

"Noah Segan - Kid Blue"

"Piper Perabo - Suzie"

"Jeff Daniels - Abe"

"Pierce Gagnon - Cid Harrington"

"Xu Qing - Old Joe's Wife"

"Tracie Thoms - Beatrix"

"Garret Dillahunt - Jesse Goldhar"

"Nick Gomez - Dale Walters"