Cliff Curtis Quotes

Whale Rider

Search for Leadership and Meaning

Porourangi Koro is just...he's just Iooking for something that doesn't exist anymore.

Pai A new leader? They exist.

Porourangi Yeah, they do, except I think it's become even more than that. In his head, your Koro, he needs a prophet.

Pai What's that?

Porourangi Well, somebody who's gonna Iead our peopIe out of the darkness and who'll make everything aIright again. OnIy probIem is you can't just decide who those peopIe are just because you want them to be, eh?

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Fracture

Homicidal Modern: A Distinctive Style

Willy Beachum What style would you say this is?

[about Crawford's house]

Detective Flores Oh... I'd say homicidal modern.

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Push

Misunderstanding an Object's Significance

Nick Gant We need this.

[pointing to an object in Cassie's drawing]

Hook Waters An olive?

Cassie Holmes It's a bead.

[irritated]

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Training Day

Three of a Kind Beats Two Pair

Smiley Three of a kind beats two pair, you fucking dumb truck.

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Training Day

Consequences of Alonzo's Violent Outburst

Smiley Alonzo, he's a hothead. Last week in Vegas some Russian starts talking shit and Alonzo he just snapped. Beat his ass to death. Turns out that Russian is a somebody and now Alonzo, he's into the Russians for a million.

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Risen

Doubt and Belief in Unseen Truths

Clavius I cannot reconcile all this with the world I know.

Yeshua With your own eyes you've seen, yet still you doubt. Imagine the doubt of those who have never seen. That's what they face.

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Sunshine

The Urgency of Their Mission

Mace Do I have to spell it out for you? We have a payload to deliver to the heart of our nearest star. We're delivering that payload because that star is dying. And if it dies, we die. Everything dies. So that is our mission. There is nothing, literally nothing, more important than completing our mission. End of story!

Trey He's right.

Mace He's right? Of course I'm right! Is anyone here seriously considering otherwise?

Searle May I put a counter-argument?

Mace No!

Searle Captain?

Kaneda Go ahead.

Searle It would, of course, be absurd to alter our trajectory to assist the crew of the Icarus I. Even if we knew that some or even all of that crew are still alive, their lives are entirely expendable when seen in the context of our mission. As are our own lives.

Mace Exactly.

Searle However, there is something on board the Icarus I that may be worth the detour. As you pointed out, Mace, we have a payload to deliver. A payload, singular. Now, everything about the delivery and effectiveness of that payload is entirely theoretical. Simply put, we don't know if it's gonna work. But what we do know is this: if we had two bombs, we'd have two chances.

Kaneda You're assuming we'd be able to pilot Icarus I.

Searle Yes.

Trey Which is assuming that whatever stopped them completing the mission wasn't a fault or a damage to the spacecraft.

Searle Yes.

Mace It's a lot of assumptions.

Searle It is. It's a risk assessment. The question is: does the risk of a detour outweigh the benefits of an extra payload?

Mace We'll have a vote.

Searle No. No, we won't. We are not a democracy. We're a collection of astronauts and scientists, so we're gonna make the most informed decision available to us.

Mace Made by you, by any chance?

Kaneda Made by the person best qualified to understand the complexities of payload delivery: our physicist.

[''Long pause'']

Capa Shit.

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Avatar: The Way of Water

A Tense Standoff Over Family and Loyalty

Quaritch Jake. Tell your friends to stand down. You want your kids back, you come out alone. You know better than to test my resolve.

[points pistol at Lo'ak]

Tsireya Lo'ak! No!

Jake (whispers) Fuck!

[hesitates, lowers gun]

Quaritch I took you under my wing, Jake. You betrayed me. You killed your own. Good men. Good women. I will not hesitate to execute your kid.

Jake Just wait one. Hold here.

[looks over his surroundings]

Tonowari They are killers of tulkun! They must die! Here. Today.

Jake It's me that they want! That's what all of this has been about, right? The-the hunting of our tulkun. The taking of our kids.

Ronal You brought this upon us! YOU!!!

Jake Well, then, it's me that has to do this.

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Once Were Warriors

Confrontation Over Past Trauma and Violence

Beth Heke You raped a 13 year old girl and sat here drinking with her father while the rest of us buried her!

Bully You should learn to control your Missus.

Beth Heke Sneaking around the house laying your filthy fucking hands on my baby!

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Avatar: The Way of Water

Introduction of Ro'a by Tonowari

Tonowari Her name is Ro'a.

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Avatar: The Way of Water

Emphasizing Unity and Cultural Exchange

Tonowari Treat them as our brothers and sisters. Teach them our ways.

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Risen

Fear of Being Wrong

Yeshua What frightens you?

Clavius Being wrong.

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Sunshine

Searle's Repeated Call to Kaneda

Searle Kaneda! What do you see? Kaneda! What do you see? Kaneda! Kaneda!

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Sunshine

Exploring the Effects of Light and Darkness

Searle It's invigorating. It's like... taking a shower in light. You lose yourself a little.

Corazon Like a floatation tank?

Searle Actually, no. More like... in psych tests on deep space, I ran a number of sensory deprivation trials, tested in total darkness, on flotation tanks. And the point about darkness is, you float in it. You and the darkness are distinct from each other, because darkness is an absence of something, it's a vacuum. But total light envelopes you. It becomes you. It's very strange. I... I recommend it.

Mace What's strange, Searle, is that you're the psych officer on this ship, and I'm clearly a lot saner than you are.

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Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs & Shaw

Family Loyalty in Times of Conflict

Jonah Hobbs You don't know me, I don't know you. Okay? Time for you all to go. Take your machine with you. Go! Now! Soles..

[the brothers move on them]

Sefina Hobbs Jonah Hobbs! E'suia! You have some respect for your ]. If he needs anything, we're gonna give it to him. The food off our tables, the clothes off our backs.... Even the ] of the islands. And you boys... All you boys... You show our guests here, ], or so help me God... I'm gonna take this here slipper... and I'm gonna sasa your big fat heads! You boys hear me?

[stands up; the brothers bow down; [wiktionary:uso#Samoan|uso; [wikipedia:Mana|mana; points to the men; [hospitality|fa'a alo alo; takes slipper]

Luke I'm sorry to bring this here, Mama.

Sefina Luke, this is your home. We Samoans. We can handle troubles.

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Sunshine

Searle's Prescription for Mental Clarity

Searle Prescription: two hours in the Earth Room. And get a haircut, Mace.

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Avatar: The Way of Water

Conflict Over Bonding with the Outcast

Ronal You allowed this. You allowed him to bond with the outcast!

[to Tsireya; annoyed]

Tonowari Tsireya. You disappoint me, daughter. And you, son of a great warrior, who has been taught better.

[to Lo'ak]

Lo'ak Payakan saved my life, sir. You don't know him.

Tsireya No, Lo'ak.

Tonowari Sit. Sit. SIT DOWN! Hear my words, boy. In the days of the First Songs, tulkun fought amongst themselves, for territory and for revenge. But they came to believe that killing, no matter how justified, only brings more killing. So all killing was forbidden. This is the Tulkun Way. Payakan is a killer, so, he is outcast.

[to Neteyam, Tsireya and Aonung; blows hard; to Lo'ak]

Lo'ak I'm sorry, sir. But you're wrong.

Neytiri Lo'ak. You speak to Olo'eyktan!

[whispers]

Lo'ak I know. What I...

Jake Sully That's enough!

[angry]

Lo'ak I know what I know.

Jake Sully That's enough. I'll deal with this one.

Avatar: The Way of Water

Seeking Sanctuary in a New World

Tonowari Why do you come to us, Jake Sully?

Jake Sully We seek uturu.

Ronal Uturu?

Jake Sully Yeah, sanctuary for my family.

Tonowari We are Reef People. You're Forest People. Your skills will be nothing here.

Jake Sully We will learn your ways. Right?

[to Neytiri]

Avatar: The Way of Water

Protection of Our Home and People

Tonowari We cannot allow you to bring your ] here.

[[war]

Runaway Jury

Justice and Perception in Runaway Jury

Frank Herrera But...

[On nominating Herman for foreman]

Eddie Weese But he's blind, man. So what? So is justice, right?

Three Kings

Accusations Amidst War and Greed

Amir Abdullah You know what I think? You're stealing gold, that's what I think. We're fighting Saddam and dying, and you're stealing gold.

Archie Gates You're wrong.

Abdullah They have half a million men in the desert and they send four guys to pick up all this bullion? I don't think so.

Avatar: Fire and Ash

Conflict Over Loyalty and Voice

Lo'ak This is-- this is wrong! This is wrong!

Ronal You do not speak here!

Lo'ak No! Payakan fought for us, he fought for us!

Jake Sully Lo'ak.

Lo'ak He saved your daughter's life! He saved her life!

Ronal This is not. You do not speak here!

Lo'ak He defend us!

Ronal This is council!

Neytiri Lo'ak.

Tonowari The elders have spoken.

Lo'ak The Tulkun are being hunted! They're dying!

Jake Sully Lo'ak, that's enough.

Lo'ak NO!

Tsireya Lo'ak speaks the truth!

Rotxo No, Tsireya.

Tsireya NO!

Tonowari Daughter!

Lo'ak Payakan is a warrior! He fought for us more than you, or you, more than any of you! HE FOUGHT FOR US!!

Tonowari Sit down!!

Neytiri Lo'ak.

Tonowari Take him from here!

Sunshine

Reflection on Human Existence and Stardust

Searle Hey Capa, we're only stardust.

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