"No one warned us. No one said, "You are going to lose both engines at a lower altitude than any jet in history. But be cool, just make a left turn for LaGuardia, like you are going back to pick up the milk." This was dual engine loss at twenty-eight hundred feet, followed by immediate water landing with one hundred fifty-five souls on board. No one has ever trained for an incident like that. No one."

"Autumn Reeser — Tess Soza"

"The untold story behind the miracle on the Hudson."

"Ann Cusack — Donna Dent"

"To be in the service of others, with men I respect, like you all, I shouldn't have to ask for more than that."

"[Looks at the co-pilot 10 seconds before ditching] Any ideas?"

"Edward Snowden — himself"

"Robert Firth — Dr. Stillwell"

"Everything is unprecedented until it happens for the first time."

"This is the captain. Brace for impact."

"Scott Eastwood — Trevor James"

"Logan Marshall-Green — Male Drone Pilot"

"Tom Wilkinson — Ewen MacAskill"

"Timothy Olyphant — CIA Agent Geneva"

"Shailene Woodley — Lindsay Mills"

"Melissa Leo — Laura Poitras"

"Ben Schnetzer — Gabriel Sol"

"Zachary Quinto — Glenn Greenwald"

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

"The only safe place is on the run."

"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."

"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."

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

"Joseph Gordon-Levitt — Edward Snowden"

"LaKeith Lee Stanfield — Patrick Haynes"

"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."

"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."

"The modern battlefield is everywhere."

"Secrecy is security and security is victory."

"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."

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

"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."

"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."