31 quotes
The Unbreakable Bond of Parenthood
Cooper
Once you're a parent, you're the ] of your ]'s ].
[[ghost; [children; [future]
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The Power of Love Across Time
Amelia Brand
] is the one thing that transcends ] and ].
[[Love; [time; [space]
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Recognizing the need to move on
Cooper
This ]'s a treasure, but it's been telling us to leave for a while now.
[[world]
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Questioning Our Understanding of the Universe
Amelia Brand
Maybe we've spent too long trying to figure all this out with ].
[[theory]
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Humorous remark about robot colonies and slaves
TARS
Everybody good? Plenty of slaves for my robot colony?
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A Difficult Choice Between Family and Humanity
Amelia Brand
You might have to decide between seeing your children again and the future of the human race.
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Indicating Presence with a Cue Light
TARS
I have a cue light I can use to show you when I'm ], if you like.
[[joking]
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Cooper Asks TARS About Its Setting
Cooper
What's your ] setting, TARS?
[[trust]
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Adjusting the Self-Destruct Sequence
Cooper
] 75%.
[As he tries to reconfigure TARS personality settings; [Humour]
TARS
Confirmed. Self destruct sequence in T minus 10… 9…
Cooper
Let's make that 60%.
TARS
60%, confirmed. Knock, knock.
Cooper
You want fifty-five?
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Resistance Against the Inevitable End
Professor Brand
Do not go gentle into that good ]; Old age should burn and rave at close of day. Rage, rage against the dying of the ].
[[night; [light]
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Fuel Efficiency in Space Navigation
TARS
Cooper, there's no point in using our fuel to chase-
[As Cooper suddenly accelerates towards an out-of-control Endurance'']
Cooper
Analyze the Endurance's spin.
Brand
Cooper, what are you doing?!
Cooper
Docking.
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Questioning Educational Standards and Expectations
Cooper
You're ruling out college for my son now? He's 15.
Principal
Tom's score simply isn't high enough.
Cooper
What's your waist line? What 32, 33 inseam?
Principal
I'm not sure I see what you're getting at.
Cooper
You're telling me it takes two ] to measure your own ass but only one to measure my son's ]?
[[numbers; [future]
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Understanding Murphy's Law and Its Implications
Young Murph
Dad, why did you and mom ] me after something that's bad?
[[name]
Cooper
Well, we didn't.
Young Murph
]?
[[Murphy's law]
Cooper
Murphy's law doesn't mean that something bad will happen. It means that whatever can happen will happen.
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Reflections on Humanity's Place in the Universe
Cooper
We used to look up at the ] and ] at our place in the ], now we just look down and worry about our place in the dirt.
[[sky; [wonder; [stars]
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Communication Updates from Various Space Missions
Doyle
The lost communications came through.
Brand
How?
Doyle
The relay on this side cached them. Years of basic data, no real surprises. Miller's site has kept pinging thumbs up, as has Mann... but Edmunds went down three years ago.
Brand
Transmitter failure?
Doyle
Maybe. He was sending thumbs up right till it went dark.
Romilly
Miller still looks good? She's coming up fast ... with one complication: the planet is much closer to Gargantua than we thought.
[Doyle nods, and Romilly begins drawing on a whiteboard]
Cooper
Gargantua?
Doyle
A very large black hole. Miller's and Dr. Mann's planets orbit it.
Brand
And Miller's is right on the horizon?
Romilly
A basketball on the hoop. Landing there takes us dangerously close. A black hole that big has a huge gravitational pull.
Cooper
Look, I can swing around that neutron star and decelerate—
Brand
It's not that, it's time. That gravity will slow our clock compared to Earth. Drastically.
Cooper
How bad?
Romilly
Every hour we spend down there will be maybe... seven years back on Earth.
Cooper
Jesus...
Romilly
That's relativity, folks.
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The Power of Love in the Cosmos
Professor Brand
* Quoting famous lines of the poem "]" by ]
[[w:Do not go gentle into that good night|Do not go gentle into that good night; [Dylan Thomas]
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A Birthday Wish for a Loved One
Murphy Cooper
Today is my birthday. And it's a special one because you once told me that when you came back, we might be the same age. Well, now I'm the same age that you were when you left... and it'd be really great if you came back soon.
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TARS and CASE's Communication Dynamic
CASE
TARS talks plenty for both of us...
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Difficult Choices in Space Exploration
Cooper
We no longer have the fuel to visit both prospects, so, we have to choose.
Romilly
But how? They’re both promising. Edmunds’ data is better, but Dr. Mann is the one still transmitting, so…
Brand
We’ve no reason to suspect Endmunds’s data would have soured. His world has key elements to sustain human life.
Cooper
As does Dr. Mann’s.
Brand
Cooper, this is my field. And I really believe Edmunds’ is the better prospect.
Cooper
Why?
Brand
Gargantua, that’s why. Look at Miller’s planet. Hydrocarbons, organics, yes, but no life. Sterile. We’ll find the same thing on Mann’s.
Romilly
Because of the black hole?
Brand
Murphy’s Law. Whatever can happen will happen. Accident is the first building block of evolution. But when you’re orbiting a black hole not enough can happen. It sucks in asteroids and comets, other events which would otherwise reach you. We need to go further afield.
Cooper
You once said that Dr. Mann was the best of us.
Brand
He’s remarkable, we’re only here because of him.
Cooper
And yet here he is. He’s on the ground, and he’s sending a very unambiguous message, telling us to come to his planet.
Brand
Granted, but Edmunds’ data is more promising.
Romilly
We should vote.
Cooper
Well, if we vote, there’s something you should know. Brand? He has a right to know.
Brand
That has nothing to do with it.
Romilly
What does?
Cooper
She’s in love with Wolf Edmunds.
Romilly
Is that true?
Brand
Yes. And that makes me want to follow my heart. But maybe we’ve spent too long trying to figure all this out with theory.
Cooper
You’re a scientist, Brand.
Brand
So listen to me when I say that love isn’t something we invented. It’s observable, powerful. It has to mean something.
Cooper
Love has meaning, yes. Social utility, social bonding, child rearing…
Brand
We love people who have died. Where’s the social utility in that?
Cooper
None
Brand
Maybe it means something more, something we can’t yet understand. May it’s some evidence, something artifact of a higher dimension that we can’t consciously perceive. I’m drawn across the universe to someone I haven’t seen in a decade, who I know is probably dead. Love is the one thing that we’re capable of perceiving that transcends dimensions of time and space. Maybe we should trust that, even if we can’t understand it yet. All right, Cooper, yes, the tiniest possibility of seeing Woolf again excites me. That doesn’t mean I’m wrong.
[Stays quiet.]
Cooper
Honestly, Amelia, it might. TARS, chart a course for Dr. Mann’s.
[Brand leaves]
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Seeking Clarity in Uncertainty
Cooper
I don't care much for this -- pretending we're back where we started. I wanna know where we are. Where we're going.
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Balancing Speed and Safety in Space Travel
Cooper
We wanna get down fast, don't we?
Brand
Actually we want to get there in one piece.
Cooper
Hang on.
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The Importance of Earth Over Space Exploration
Cooper
You don't believe we went to the ]?
[[Moon]
Ms. Hanley
I believe it was a brilliant piece of propaganda, that the Soviets bankrupted themselves pouring resources into rockets and other useless machines...
Cooper
Useless machines?
Ms. Hanley
..and if we don't want to repeat of the excess and wastefulness of the 20th Century then we need to teach our kids about this planet, not tales of leaving it.
Cooper
You know, one of those useless machines they used to make was called an MRI, and if we had one of those left the doctors would have been able to find the cyst in my wife's brain, before she died instead of afterwards, and then she would've been the one sitting here, listening to this instead of me. Which would've been a good thing because she was always the ... calmer one.
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Communication Dynamics in Interstellar Collaboration
Cooper
Ready?
CASE
Yup.
Cooper
Don't say much, do you?
CASE
TARS talks plenty for both of us.
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Destiny and the Journey Beyond Earth
Cooper
] was ] on ]. It was never meant to ] here.
[[Mankind; [born; [Earth; [die]
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Exploring the Limits of Possibility
CASE
This is not possible.
Cooper
No. It's ].
[[necessary]
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Conflict of Priorities in a Mission
Brand
I told you to leave me.
Cooper
And I told you to get your ass back here! Difference is, only one of us was thinking about the mission—
Brand
Cooper, you were thinking about getting home — I was trying to do the right thing!
Cooper
Tell that to Doyle. How long to drain, CASE?
[pause]
CASE
Forty-five to an hour.
Cooper
The stuff of life, huh? What's this gonna cost us, Brand?
Brand
A lot. Decades.
Cooper
What happened to Miller?
Brand
Judging by the wreckage, she was broken up by a wave shortly after impact.
Cooper
How could the wreckage still be together after all these years?
Brand
Because of the time slippage. On this planet's time, she landed here just hours ago. She might have died only minutes ago.
CASE
The data Doyle collected was just the initial status, echoing endlessly.
Cooper
We're not prepared for this, Brand. You're a bunch of eggheads without the survival skills of a boy-scout troop.
Brand
We got this far on our brains, farther than any humans in history...
Cooper
No, not far enough. And we're stuck here till there won't be anyone left on Earth to save—
Brand
I'm counting every second, same as you, Cooper.
Cooper
Don't you have some clever way we jump into a black hole and get back the years? Don't you shake your head at me!
[Brand shakes her head]
Brand
] is relative, it can stretch and squeeze, but it can't run backwards. The only thing that can move across dimensions like time is gravity.
[[Time]
Cooper
The beings that led us here ... they communicate through gravity ... Could they be talking to us from the future?
Brand
Maybe.
Cooper
Well, if they can—
Brand
Look, Cooper, they're creatures of at least five ], to them the ] might be a canyon they can climb into and the ] a ] they can climb up... but to us it's not, okay? I'm sorry, Cooper. I screwed up. But you know about relativity.
[[dimensions; [past; [future; [mountain]
Cooper
My daughter was ten. I couldn't explain ]'s theories before I left.
[[Einstein]
Brand
Could you tell her you were going to ] the ]?
[[save; [world]
Cooper
No. I wasn't much of a parent, but I ] the most important thing — let your kids feel safe. Which rules out telling ten-year-old that the world's ending.
[[understood]
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Urgency Over Caution in Critical Moments
CASE
Cooper, this is no time for caution.
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Understanding Gravity Through Black Hole Data
Murphy Cooper
* Quoting ] when she finishes equations related to information from the black hole about the gravity force.
[[Archimedes]
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A Mission Beyond Earth’s Limits
Prof. Brand
We must confront the ] that nothing in our solar system can ] us.
[[reality; [help]
Cooper
Now you need to tell me what your plan is to save the world.
Prof. Brand
We're not meant to save the world. We're meant to leave it, and this is the mission you were trained for.
Cooper
I've got kids, Professor.
Prof. Brand
Then get out there and save them. We must reach far beyond our own lifespans. We must think not as individuals but as a species. We must confront the reality of interstellar travel.
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The Spirit of Human Achievement
Cooper
We've always ] ourselves by the ] to overcome the impossible. And we count these ]. These moments when we ] to aim higher, to break barriers, to reach for the ], to make the unknown known. We count these moments as our proudest achievements. But we lost all that. Or perhaps we've just forgotten that we are still pioneers. And we've barely begun. And that our greatest accomplishments cannot be behind us, because our ] lies above us.
[[defined; [ability; [moments; [dare; [stars; [destiny]
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Facing Difficult Goodbyes and New Beginnings
Cooper
It is hard leaving everything... my kids, your father...
Brand
We're gonna be spending a lot of time together.
Cooper
We should ] to talk.
[[learn]
Brand
And when not to? … Just being ].
[[honest]
Cooper
I don't think you need to be that honest. Hey TARS, what’s your honesty Parameter?
TARS
Ninety percent.
Cooper
Ninety percent?
TARS
Absolute honesty isn’t always the most diplomatic, nor the safest form of communication with emotional beings.
Cooper
Okay. Ninety percent it is, Dr. Brand.
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