The Matrix (1999) - Quotes

Taglines: There is no spoon.

Taglines: Welcome to the Real World.

Taglines: Unfortunately, no one can be told what the Matrix is. You have to see it for yourself.

Taglines: What is The Matrix?

Taglines: Reality is a thing of the past.

Taglines: Believe the unbelievable.

Taglines: The Fight for the Future Begins.

Taglines: Free your mind.

Taglines: Be Afraid of the Future.

Trinity: [''Kisses him''; ''Neo resurrects, fully enlightened and the agents at the hallway end raise their firearms and simultaneously fire''] Neo, I’m not afraid anymore. The Oracle told me that I would fall in love, and that that man, the man who I loved would be The One. So you see, you can’t be dead. You can’t be, because I love you. You hear me? I love you. Now get up.

Neo: [''Raises a hand and stops all bullets in mid-air''] No.

Tank: [''Astounded''] How?

Morpheus: [''Mesmerized''] He is The One.

Trinity: [''Agent Smith appears behind Neo''] Run, Neo, run. What is he doing?

Morpheus: He's beginning to believe.

Smith: You're empty.

Neo: So are you.

Smith: [''After fighting a round''] I'm going to enjoy watching you die, Mr. Anderson.

Trinity: [''Neo coughs up blood after continued fighting''] Jesus, he's killing him.

Smith: [''After fighting a round ends with Neo in a headlock on subway tracks with the sound of approaching subway train''] You hear that, Mr. Anderson? That is the sound of inevitability. It is the sound of your death. Goodbye, Mr. Anderson.

Neo: [''Neo jumps upward with Smith being smashed into ceiling and they fall down with Neo backflipping onto the platform and the train plowing into Smith''] My name... is Neo.

Tank: Okay. So what do you need, besides a miracle?

Neo: [''Endless aisles of firearms appear''] Guns. Lots of guns.

Trinity: [''Neo takes an [[w:Heckler & Koch MP5K#MP5K|MP5K] ] off a rack] Neo, no one has ever done anything like this.

Neo: [''Slap cocks the MP5K''] That’s why it’s going to work.

Neo: What are they doing to him?

Tank: Breaking into his mind. It’s like hacking into a computer, all it takes is time.

Neo: How much time?

Tank: Depends on the mind. Eventually it will crack and his alpha patterns will change from this to this. When it does, Morpheus will tell them anything they want to know.

Neo: Well, what do they want?

Tank: The leader of every ship is given codes to Zion’s mainframe computer. If an agent got the codes and got into Zion’s mainframe, it could destroy us. We can’t let that happen.

Neo: Trinity?

Tank: Zion’s more important than me or you or even Morpheus.

Neo: Well there has to be something that we can do.

Tank: There is. We pull the plug.

Trinity: You’re going to kill him? Kill Morpheus?

Tank: We don’t have any other choice.

Agent Smith: Never send a human to do a machine’s job.

Agent Brown: If indeed the insider has failed, they’ll sever the connection as soon as possible, unless...

Agent Jones: They’re dead, in either case...

Agent Smith: We have no choice but to continue as planned. Deploy the sentinels. Immediately.

Tank: Morpheus, you were more than a leader to us. You were… a father. We’ll miss you always.

Neo: Stop. I don’t believe this is happening.

Tank: Neo, this has to be done.

Neo: Does it? I don’t know, I... this can’t be just coincidence. It can’t be.

Tank: What are you talking about?

Neo: The Oracle. She told me this would happen. She told me that I would have to make a choice.

Trinity: What choice? What are you doing?

Neo: I’m going in.

Trinity: No you’re not.

Neo: I have to.

Trinity: Neo, Morpheus sacrificed himself so that he could get you out. There’s no way that you’re going back in.

Neo: Morpheus did what he did because he believed I am something I’m not.

Trinity: What?

Neo: I’m not the One, Trinity. The Oracle hit me with that too.

Trinity: No. You have to be.

Neo: I’m not, I’m sorry. I’m just another guy.

Trinity: No, Neo. That’s not true. It can’t be true.

Neo: Why?

Tank: Neo, this is insane. They’ve got Morpheus in a military controlled building. Even if you somehow got inside, those are agents holding him. Three of them. I want Morpheus back too, but what you’re talking about is suicide.

Neo: I know that’s what it looks like, but it’s not. I can’t explain to you why it’s not. Morpheus believed something and he was ready to give his life for what he believed. I understand that now. That’s why I have to go.

Tank: Why?

Neo: Because I believe in something.

Trinity: What?

Neo: [''Neo turns, walks to screen terminal and Trinity goes besides him and starts tapping on another screen terminal''] I believe I can bring him back... What are you doing?

Trinity: Going with you.

Neo: No, you’re not.

Trinity: [''Walks up to Neo''] No? Let me tell you what I believe. I believe Morpheus means more to me than he does to you. I believe if you’re really serious about saving him, you are going to need my help. And since I am the ranking officer on this ship, if you don’t like it, I believe you can go to hell. Because you aren’t going anywhere else. Tank? Load us up.

Cypher: Where are they?

Tank: Making the call.

Cypher: Good.

Trinity: You first, Neo.

Cypher: [''Fires lightning thrower at Tank but fails to hit him''; ''Fires it again and succeeds''] Shit!

Dozer: [''He witnesses it and lunges at Cypher''; ''Cypher fires lightning thrower at Dozer''] No!

Neo: I don’t know, it just went dead.

Cypher: Hello, Trinity.

Trinity: Cypher? Where’s Tank?

Cypher: [''Leans over Trinity's face''] You know, for a long time, I thought I was in love with you. I used to dream about you. You’re a beautiful woman, Trinity. Too bad things had to turn out this way.

Trinity: You killed them!

Apoc: What?!

Switch: Oh God!

Cypher: [''Jumps onto Morpheus' body''] I’m tired, Trinity. I’m tired of this war. Tired of fighting, tired of this ship, being cold, eating the same goddamn goop everyday. But most of all, I’m tired of that jackoff and all of his bullshit. Surprise, asshole! I bet you never saw this coming, didja? God, I wish I could be there, when they break you. I wish I could walk in just when it happens. So right then, you’d know it was me.

Trinity: You gave them Morpheus.

Cypher: He lied to us, Trinity. He tricked us. If you’da told us the truth, we woulda told you to shove that red pill right up your ass!

Trinity: That is not true, Cypher, he set us free.

Cypher: Free? You call this free? All I do is what he tells me to do. If I had to choose between that and the Matrix, I choose the Matrix.

Trinity: The Matrix isn’t real!

Cypher: I disagree, Trinity. I think the Matrix can be more real than this world. All I do is pull the plug here. But there, you have to watch Apoc die.

Apoc: [''Falls down dead''] Trinity.

Switch: [''Rushes down to him''] No!

Cypher: Welcome to the real world, huh, baby?

Trinity: But you’re out, Cypher. You can’t go back.

Cypher: Oh no, that’s what you think. They’re going to reinsert my body. I go back to sleep, and when I wake up, I won’t remember a goddamn thing. By the way, if you have anything terribly important to say to Switch, I suggest you say it now.

Trinity: No, no, please don’t.

Switch: [''She falls down dead''] Not like this. Not like this.

Cypher: Too late.

Trinity: Goddamn you, Cypher!

Cypher: Don’t hate me, Trinity. I’m just the messenger, and right now I’m gonna prove it to you. If Morpheus was right, then there’s no way I can pull this plug. I mean, if Neo’s The One, then there’d have to be some kind of a miracle to stop me. Right? I mean, how can he be The One if he’s dead? You never did answer me before. You bought into Morpheus’ bullshit. Come on – all I want is a little yes or no. Look into his eyes, those big pretty eyes, and tell me. Yes or no?

Trinity: Yes.

Cypher: [''Realizes Tank survived and is aiming the lightning thrower''] No! I don’t believe it!

Tank: [''Fires lightning thrower at Cypher who goes flying into pipes''] Believe it or not, you piece of shit, you’re still gonna burn!

Neo: I think so.

Oracle: So, what do you think? Do you think you’re The One?

Neo: I don’t know.

Oracle: [''The latin phrase ''Temet Nosce'' appears on an inscription over the Oracle's door''; [w:Know thyself|Know thyself] You know what that means? It's Latin. Means "]". I'm going to let you in on a little secret. Being The One is just like being in love. No one can tell you you're in love, you just know it. Through and through. Balls to bones.

Neo: Ahhh.

Oracle: Okay. Now I’m supposed to say, “Umm, that’s interesting, but...” then you say...

Neo: But what?

Oracle: But you already know what I’m going to tell you.

Neo: I’m not The One.

Oracle: Sorry, kid. You got the gift, but it looks like you’re waiting for something.

Neo: What?

Oracle: Your next life, maybe? who knows? That’s the way these things go. What’s funny?

Neo: Morpheus. He- he almost had me convinced.

Oracle: I know. Poor Morpheus. Without him we’re lost.

Neo: What do you mean, without him?

Oracle: Are you sure you want to hear this? Morpheus believes in you, Neo. And no one, not you, not even me can convince him otherwise. He believes it so blindly that he’s going to sacrifice his life to save yours.

Neo: What?

Oracle: You’re going to have to make a choice. In the one hand you’ll have Morpheus’ life and in the other hand you’ll have your own. One of you is going to die. Which one will be up to you. I’m sorry, kiddo, I really am. You have a good soul, and I hate giving good people bad news. Oh, don’t worry about it. As soon as you step outside that door, you’ll start feeling better. You’ll remember you don’t believe in any of this fate crap. You’re in control of your own life, remember? Here, take a cookie. I promise, by the time you’re done eating it, you’ll feel right as rain.

Morpheus: What was said was for you and for you alone.

Tank: [[w:Airline seat|the fasten seat belt; [w:Inflight smoking|no smoking signs have been turned on] Everyone please observe, ] and ]. Sit back and enjoy your ride.

Morpheus: Unbelievable, isn’t it?

Neo: God.

Trinity: What?

Neo: [''Points at passing location''] I used to eat there. Really good noodles. I have these memories from my life. None of them happened. What does that mean?

Trinity: That the Matrix cannot tell you who you are.

Neo: And an Oracle can?

Trinity: That’s different.

Neo: Did you go to her?

Trinity: Yes.

Neo: What did she tell you?

Trinity: She told me.

Neo: What?

Morpheus: We’re here. Neo, come with me.

Neo: So is this the same Oracle that made the prophecy?

Morpheus: Yes. She’s very old. She’s been with us since the beginning.

Neo: The beginning?

Morpheus: Of the Resistance.

Neo: And she knows what, everything?

Morpheus: She would say she knows enough.

Neo: And she’s never wrong.

Morpheus: Try not to think of it in terms of right and wrong. She is a guide, Neo. She can help you to find the path.

Neo: She helped you?

Morpheus: Yes.

Neo: What did she tell you?

Morpheus: That I would find the one... I told you I can only show you the door. You have to walk through it.

Priestess: Hello, Neo. You’re right on time. Make yourself at home, Morpheus. Neo, come with me. These are the other potentials, you can wait here.

Spoon boy: Do not try and bend the spoon. That's impossible. Instead, only try to realize the truth.

Neo: What truth?

Spoon boy: There is no spoon.

Neo: There is no spoon?

Spoon boy: Then you will see that it is not the spoon that bends, it is only yourself.

Morpheus: [[w:Businessperson|Business people; [w:teacher|teachers; [w:lawyer|lawyers; [w:carpenter|carpenters; ''A smiling attractive women walks past them with Neo turning his head at her''] The Matrix is a system, Neo. That system is our enemy. But when you’re inside, you look around. What do you see? ], ], ], ]. The very minds of the people we are trying to save. But until we do, these people are still a part of that system, and that makes them our enemy. You have to understand, most of these people are not ready to be unplugged. And many of them are so inured, so hopelessly dependent on the system, that they will fight to protect it. Were you listening to me, Neo, or were you looking at the woman in the red dress?

Neo: I was...

Morpheus: [''Woman has become an Agent Smith [[wikt:avatar|avatar; ''All pedestrians and agent become frozen in place''] Look again. ], who is raising his firearm at Neo's head] Freeze it.

Neo: [''Walking around Agent Smith avatar''] This... this isn’t the Matrix?

Morpheus: No. It’s another training program designed to teach you one thing. If you are not one of us, you are one of them.

Neo: What are they?

Morpheus: Sentient programs. They can move in and out of any software still hard-wired to their system. That means that anyone we haven’t unplugged is potentially an agent. Inside the Matrix, they are everyone and they are no one. We have survived by hiding from them, by running from them. But they are the gatekeepers. They are guarding all the doors, they are holding all the keys, which means that sooner or later, someone is going to have to fight them.

Neo: Someone?

Morpheus: I won't lie to you, Neo. Every single man or woman who has stood their ground, everyone who has fought an agent has died. But where they have failed, you will succeed.

Neo: Why?

Morpheus: I've seen an agent punch through a concrete wall. Men have emptied entire clips at them and hit nothing but air. Yet their strength and their speed are still based in a world that is built on rules. Because of that, they will never be as strong or as fast as you can be.

Neo: What are you trying to tell me, that I can dodge bullets?

Morpheus: No, Neo. I'm trying to tell you that when you're ready, you won't have to.

Tank: [''Enters Neo's quarters''; ''Neo shakes head''] Morning, did you sleep? You will tonight, I guarantee it. I’m Tank, I’ll be your operator.

Neo: [''Noticing Tank's lack of electrical sockets''] You don’t... you don’t have any...

Tank: Holes? Nope. Me and my brother Dozer, we’re both one hundred percent pure, old fashioned, home-grown human, born free right here in the real world. Genuine child of Zion.

Neo: Zion?

Tank: If the war was over tomorrow, Zion’s where the party would be.

Neo: It’s a city?

Tank: The last human city. The only place we have left.

Neo: Where is it?

Tank: [''Nodding head''] Deep underground, near the Earth’s core, where it’s still warm. You live long enough, you might even see it. Goddamn, I... I got to tell you, I’m fairly excited to see what you’re capable of, if Morpheus is right and all... We’re not supposed to talk about this, but if you are... damn, it’s a very exciting time. We got a lot to do. Let’s get to it...

Tank: [''Jumps into operator seat with Neo in his plug-in seat and Tank is rifling through [[w:Floppy disk|floppy discs; ''holds up floppy''] Now, we’re supposed to start with these operation programs first, that’s major boring shit. Let’s do something a little more fun. How about... combat training?

Neo: [''Reading on screen''; [w:Jujutsu|Jujitsu; ''Tank uploads program''] ]? I’m going to learn Jujitsu? Holy shit!

Tank: [[w:Life (cereal)|Hey Mikey, I think he likes it] ]. How about some more?

Neo: Hell yes!

Morpheus: [''Leaning over Tank''] How is he?

Tank: Ten hours straight. He’s... a machine.

Neo: [''To Morpheus leaning over him''; [w:Kung Fun|Kung Fu] I know ].

Morpheus: [''In the sparring program''; ''They fight a round''; ''Wagging fingers''] Show me. This is a sparring program, similar to the programmed reality of the Matrix. It has the same basic rules, rules like gravity. What you must learn is that these rules are no different that the rules of a computer system. Some of them can be bent. Others can be broken. Understand? Then hit me. If you can. Good. Adaptation, improvisation. But your weakness is not your technique.

Mouse: [''To the Nebuchadnezzar crew in the mess''; ''They all scramble to see''] Morpheus is fighting Neo.

Morpheus: How did I beat you?

Neo: You’re too fast.

Morpheus: Do you believe that my being stronger or faster has anything to do with my muscles, in this place? You think that’s air you’re breathing now...? Again.

Mouse: Jesus Christ, he’s fast. Take a look at his neural kinetics, they’re way above normal.

Morpheus: What are you waiting for? You’re faster than this. Don’t think you are, know you are. Come on! Stop trying to hit me and HIT me!

Mouse: I don’t believe it.

Neo: I know what you’re trying to do.

Morpheus: [''The jump program simulation is initiated Neo and Morpheus are on top of a skyscraper''; ''Morpheus jumps from the skyscraper to another skyscraper''] I’m trying to free your mind, Neo, but I can only show you the door, you’re the one that has to walk through it. Tank, load the jump program... You have to let it all go, Neo, fear, doubt, and disbelief. Free your mind.

Neo: [''Makes focus-on-the-task-gestures''] Whoa. Okie dokie. Free my mind.

Mouse: So what if he makes it?

Tank: No one’s ever made the first jump.

Mouse: I know, I know. But what if he does?

Apoc: He won’t.

Mouse: Come on.

Trinity: Come on.

Neo: [''He jumps only to fall to the street landing softly''] All right, no problem. Free my mind. Free my mind. All right.

Mouse: Wha- what does that mean?

Switch: It doesn’t mean anything.

Cypher: Everybody falls the first time. Right, Trin'?

Neo: [''unplugged; wipes blood from mouth''] I thought it wasn’t real.

Morpheus: Your mind makes it real.

Neo: If you’re killed in the Matrix, you die here?

Morpheus: The body cannot live without the mind.

Neo: [''To Morpheus''] I can’t go back, can I?

Morpheus: No. But if you could, would you really want to? I feel I owe you an apology. We have a rule. We never free a mind once it’s reached a certain age. It’s dangerous, the mind has trouble letting go. I’ve seen it before, and I’m sorry. I did what I did because... I had to. When the Matrix was first built, there was a man born inside who had the ability to change whatever he wanted, to remake the Matrix as he saw fit. It was he who freed the first of us, taught us the truth: ‘As long as the Matrix exists, the human race will never be free.’ After he died, the Oracle prophesied his return, and that his coming would hail the destruction of the Matrix, end the war, bring freedom to our people. That is why there are those of us who have spent our entire lives searching the Matrix looking for him. I did what I did because I believe that search is over. Get some rest, you’re going to need it.

Neo: For what?

Morpheus: Your training.

Neo: Morpheus, what’s happened to me? What is this place?

Morpheus: More important than ‘What?’ is ‘When?’

Neo: When?

Morpheus: [''Walking through the hacking floor''] You believe it’s the year 1999 when in fact it’s closer to 2199. I can’t tell you exactly what year it is, because we honestly don’t know. There’s nothing I can say that will explain it for you, Neo. Come with me. See for yourself. This is my ship, the Nebuchadnezzar; it’s a hovercraft. This is the main deck. This is the core, where we broadcast our pirate signal and hack into the Matrix. Most of my crew you already know. This is Apoc, Switch, and Cypher.

Cypher: Hi.

Morpheus: [''Puts hands on Neo's shoulders''; ''Motions head to her''; ''To Neo in plug-in chair''; ''Slips in head plug and Neo becomes sentient in the construct''] The ones you don’t know, Tank and his big brother, Dozer. The little one behind you is Mouse. You wanted to know what the Matrix is, Neo? Trinity? Try to relax. This will feel a little weird. This is the construct. It’s our loading program. We can load anything from clothing, to equipment, weapons, training simulations, anything we need.

Neo: Right now we’re inside a computer program?

Morpheus: Is it really so hard to believe? Your clothes are different. The plugs in your arms and head are gone. Your hair has changed. Your appearance now is what we call residual self image. It is the mental projection of your digital self.

Neo: This... this isn’t real?

Morpheus: [[brain; ''Turns on vintage TV set and sits in an antique leather seat''; ''Changes channel to war-ravaged city with blackened thunderous skies, which suddenly surrounds them''; [w:artificial intelligence|AI] What "is" real? How do you define "real"? If you’re talking about what you can feel, what you can smell, what you can taste and see, then "real" is simply electrical signals interpreted by your ]. This is the world that you know. The world as it was at the end of the 20th century. It exists now only as part of a neural-interactive simulation that we call the Matrix. You’ve been living in a dream world, Neo. This is the world as it exists today... Welcome.. to the desert.. of the real. We have only bits and pieces of information, but what we know for certain is that at some point in the early 21st century, all of mankind was united in celebration. We marvelled at our own magnificence as we gave birth to ].

Neo: AI? Artificial Intelligence?

Morpheus: [''Points upwards''; [w:Solar energy|solar power; [w:British thermal unit|BTUs of body heat; [dream; ''He holds up [[w:Duracell|a Duracell duralock D cell battery] A singular consciousness that spawned an entire race of machines. We don’t know who struck first, us or them. But we know that it was us that scorched the sky. At the time, they were dependent on ], and it was believed that they would be unable to survive without an energy source as abundant as the sun. Throughout human history, we have been dependent on machines to survive. Fate, it seems, is not without a sense of irony. The human body generates more bio-electricity than a 120-volt battery and over 25,000 ]. Combined with a form of fusion, the machines have found all the energy they would ever need. There are fields, Neo, endless fields, where human beings are no longer born. We are grown. For the longest time I wouldn’t believe it, and then I saw the fields with my own eyes. Watched them liquefy the dead so they could be fed intravenously to the living. And standing there, facing the pure horrifying precision, I came to realize the obviousness of the truth. What is the Matrix? Control. The Matrix is a computer-generated ] world, built to keep us under control in order to change a human being into... this.

Neo: No. I don’t believe it. It’s not possible.

Morpheus: I didn’t say it would be easy, Neo. I just said it would be the truth.

Neo: [''Starts to panic''; ''Gets unplugged''] Stop. Let me out! Let me out! I want out!

Trinity: Easy, Neo. Easy.

Neo: Take this thing off me. Take this thing...

Morpheus: Listen to me...

Neo: Don’t touch me. Stay away from me. I don’t want it. I don’t believe it. I don’t believe it.

Cypher: He’s gonna pop.

Morpheus: [''Neo falls to knees, vomits, and then passes out''] Breathe, Neo. Just breathe.

Morpheus: Welcome to the real world... We’ve done it, Trinity. We’ve found him.

Trinity: I hope you’re right.

Morpheus: [[hope] I don’t have to ]. I know it.

Neo: Am I dead?

Morpheus: Far from it.

Dozer: He still needs a lot of work.

Neo: What are you doing?

Morpheus: Your muscles have atrophied; we’re rebuilding them.

Neo: Why do my eyes hurt?

Morpheus: [''Puts hand on Neo's head''] You’ve never used them before. Rest, Neo. The answers are coming.

Trinity: This is it. Let me give you one piece of advice. Be honest. He knows more than you can imagine.

Morpheus: At last. Welcome, Neo. As you no doubt have guessed, I am Morpheus.

Neo: [''Extends hand for handshake''] It’s an honor to meet you.

Morpheus: [[honor; ''They sit in armchairs facing each other''; [w:Alice's Adventures in Wonderland|Alice, tumbling down the rabbit hole] No, the ] is mine. Please, come. Sit. I imagine that right now you’re feeling a bit like ], hmm?

Neo: You could say that.

Morpheus: [[fate] I can see it in your eyes. You have the look of a man who accepts what he sees because he is expecting to wake up. Ironically, this is not far from the truth. Do you believe in ], Neo?

Neo: No.

Morpheus: Why not?

Neo: [[control] Because I don’t like the idea that I’m not in ] of my life.

Morpheus: [[mind] I know exactly what you mean. Let me tell you why you're here. You're here because you know something. What you know, you can't explain, but you feel it. You've felt it your entire life, that there's something wrong with this world. You don't know what, but it's there, like a splinter in your ], driving you mad. It is this feeling that has brought you to me. Do you know what I'm talking about?

Neo: The Matrix?

Morpheus: [''Neo nods in response''; [television; [work; [truth] Do you want to know what it is? The Matrix is everywhere. It is all around us. Even now, in this very room. You can see it when you look out your window or when you turn on your ]. You can feel it when you go to ]. When you go to church. When you pay your taxes. It is the world that has been pulled over your eyes to blind you from the ].

Neo: What truth?

Morpheus: [''Leans in closer to Neo''; ''Pause''; ''Opens his pillbox, empties the contents into his palms, outstretches his hands as clenched fists''; ''opens his right hand revealing blue pill''; ''opens his left hand revealing red pill; [Alice in Wonderland|Wonderland; ''Neo, after a pause, reaches for the red pill''; ''Neo takes the red pill''; ''Leads Neo into a room with Trinity, Dozer, Apoc and Switch busy with peculiarly improvised electronic equipment''] That you are a slave, Neo. Like everyone else, you were born into bondage. Born into a prison that you cannot smell or taste or touch. A prison for your mind. Unfortunately, no one can be... told what the Matrix is. You have to see it for yourself. This is your last chance. After this, there is no turning back. You take the blue pill, the story ends, you wake up in your bed and believe whatever you want to believe. You take the red pill, you stay in ], and I show you how deep the rabbit hole goes. Remember: all I'm offering is the truth. Nothing more. ...Follow me. Apoc, are we online?

Apoc: Almost.

Morpheus: [''Neo sits in unplugging chair''] Time is always against us. Please, take a seat there.

Neo: [''Trinity working alongside him''] You did all this?

Trinity: Uh-huh.

Morpheus: The pill you took is part of a trace program. It’s designed to disrupt your input/output carrier signals so we can pinpoint your location.

Neo: What does that mean?

Cypher: [[w:The Wonderful Wizard of Oz|buckle your seat belt, Dorothy, ’cause Kansas is going bye-bye] It means ].

Neo: [''Watches a cracked mirror become repaired''; ''He touches it and glass becomes viscous on his hand''] Did you...

Morpheus: [[dream] Have you ever had a ], Neo, that you were so sure was real? What if you were unable to wake from that dream? How would you know the difference between the dream world and the real world?

Neo: [''The illusionary glass starts spreading on his arm''] This can’t be...

Morpheus: [''The illusionary glass goes up his neck and into his throat; he wakes from the Matrix''] Be what? Be real?

Morpheus: [[w:Wiretapping|This line is tapped] ], so I must be brief. They got to you first, but they’ve underestimated how important you are. If they knew what I know, you’d probably be dead.

Neo: What are you talking about. What... what is happening to me?

Morpheus: You are The One, Neo. You see, you may have spent the last few years looking for me, but I’ve spent my entire life looking for you. Now do you still want to meet?

Neo: Yes.

Agent Smith: [''Produces folder and opens it''; [life; [w:Social Security number|have a Social Security number; [w:Cybercrime|are guilty of virtually every computer crime we have a law for] As you can see, we've had our eye on you for some time now, Mr. Anderson. It seems that you've been living two lives. In one ], you're Thomas A. Anderson, program writer for a respectable software company. You ], you pay your taxes, and you... help your landlady carry out her garbage. The other life is lived in computers, where you go by the hacker alias "Neo" and ]. One of these lives has a future, and one of them does not. We know that you've been contacted by a certain individual, a man who calls himself Morpheus. Now whatever you think you know about this man is irrelevant. He is considered by many authorities to be the most dangerous man alive. My colleagues believe that I am wasting my time with you but I believe that you wish to do the right thing. We're willing to wipe the slate clean, give you a fresh start, and all that we're asking in return is your cooperation in bringing a known terrorist to justice.

Neo: [[w:The finger|I give you the finger...; ''displays the gesture to Smith''] Yeah. Well, that sounds like a pretty good deal. But I think I may have a better one: How about ] and you give me my phone call?

Agent Smith: Oh, Mr. Anderson... you disappoint me.

Neo: [[w:Gestapo|Gestapo] You can't scare me with this ] crap. I know my rights. I want my phone call.

Agent Smith: [''Neo’s mouth suddenly starts to "melt together" until he's completely mute; he backs into the corner of the room as Agents Jones and Brown hold him and then push him towards the table, slamming him on it, face up, as Smith readies to implant a bug into Neo''; ''The "bug" turns into an actual insect and enters Neo through his navel. After it enters him, he wakes up at home in bed''] Tell me, Mr. Anderson, what good is a phone call if you're unable to speak? You're going to help us, Mr. Anderson. Whether you want to or not.

Trinity: [[danger] Right now, all I can tell you is that you’re in ]. I brought you here to warn you.

Neo: Of what?

Trinity: They’re watching you, Neo.

Neo: Who is?

Trinity: [''Embraces him and leans close''; ''Speaking in his ear''] Please just listen. I know why you’re here, Neo. I know what you’ve been doing. I know why you hardly sleep, why you live alone, and why night after night you sit at your computer. You’re looking for him. I know, because I was once looking for the same thing. And when he found me, he told me I wasn’t really looking for him. I was looking for an answer. It’s the question that drives us, Neo. It’s the question that brought you here. You know the question just as I did.

Neo: What is the Matrix?

Trinity: The answer is out there, Neo. It’s looking for you. And it will find you, if you want it to.

Agent Smith: [[w:Revelation|a revelation that I've had; [w:Mammal classification|I tried to classify your species and I realized that you're not actually mammals; [w:Balance of nature|Every mammal on this planet instinctively develops a natural equilibrium with the surrounding environment; [w:Human migration|You move to an area and you multiply and multiply until every natural resource is consumed and the only way you can survive is to spread to another area; [w:virus|A virus] I'd like to share ] during my time here. It came to me when ]. ] but you humans do not. ]. There is another organism on this planet that follows the same pattern. Do you know what it is? ]. Human beings are a disease, a cancer of this planet. You're a plague and we are the cure.

Agent Smith: [''To Morpheus of a near top skyscraper floor''; [w:Heaven|a perfect human world; [w:Disaster|It was a disaster. No one would accept the program. Entire crops were lost; [w:Programming language theory|the programming language; [w:Archaic humans#Brain size expansion|your primitive cerebrum kept trying to wake up from; [w:Kardashev scale|the peak of your civilization] Have you ever stood and stared at it, marveled at its beauty, its genius? Billions of people just living out their lives, oblivious. Did you know that the first Matrix was designed to be ]. Where none suffered. Where everyone would be happy. ]. Some believed that we lacked ] to describe your perfect world. But I believe that as a species, human beings define their reality through misery and suffering. The perfect world was a dream that ]. Which is why the Matrix was redesigned to this, ]. I say your civilization because as soon as we started thinking for you it really became our civilization which is, of course, what this is all about. Evolution, Morpheus, evolution. Like the dinosaur. Look out that window. You had your time. The future is our world, Morpheus. The future is our time.

Agent Smith: [''To Thomas Anderson/Neo in interrogation room''; [eye; [time; [computers; [w:Security hacker|the hacker alias; [guilty; [crime; [law; [future] As you can see, we've had our ] on you for some ] now, Mr. Anderson. It seems that you've been living two lives. In one life, you're Thomas A. Anderson, program writer for a respectable software company. You have a Social Security number, you pay your taxes, and you...help your landlady carry out her garbage. The other life is lived in ], where you go by ] "Neo" and are ] of virtually every computer ] we have a ] for. One of these lives has a ], and one of them does not.

Agent Jones: [''About to shoot and kill Neo sitting on ground''] Only human.

Trinity: [''From behind Agent Jones about to shoot Neo''; ''Shoots and kills Agent Jones at point-blank range''] Dodge this.

Neo: [''At a [[w:Telephone booth|phonebooth; [know; [feel; [now; [afraid; [change; [future; [end; [begin; [people; [see; [world; [rules; [controls; [choice; ''Then flies up into the sky''] I ] you're out there. I can ] you ]. I know that you're ]. You're afraid of us. You're afraid of ]. I don't know the ]. I didn't come here to tell you how this is going to ]. I came here to tell you how it's going to ]. I'm going to hang up this phone, and then I'm going to show these ] what you don't want them to ]. I'm going to show them a world without you. A ] without ] or ], borders or boundaries. A world where anything is possible. Where we go from there is a ] I leave to you.