Primer (2005)

Share this quote on facebook You're talking about making a bigger one.

Share this quote on facebook Are you hungry? I haven't eaten since later this afternoon.

Share this quote on facebook I am trying, okay, I really am here.

Share this quote on facebook What's worse, thinking you're being paranoid or knowing you should be?

Share this quote on facebook That is no static shock.

Share this quote on facebook [narrating] Meticulous, yes. Methodical. Educated. They were these things. Nothing extreme. Like anyone, they varied. There were days of mistakes and laziness and infighting. And there were days, good days, when by anyone's judgment, they would have to be considered clever. No one would say that what they were doing was complicated. It wouldn't even be considered new. Except maybe in the geological sense. They took from their surroundings what was needed, and made of it something more.

Share this quote on facebook How many times would it take before he got it right? Three? Four? Twenty? I've decided to believe that only one more would have done it. I can almost sleep at night, if there's only one more. Slowly and methodically, he reverse-engineered a perfect moment. He took from his surroundings what was needed, and made of it something more. And once the details had been successfully navigated, there was nothing left to do but wait for the conflict. Maybe the obligatory, last minute moral debate until the noise of the room escalates into panic and background screams, as the gunman walks in. And eventually, he must have got it perfect, and it must have been beautiful with all the praise and adoration he had coming. He had probably saved lives, after all. Who knows what would have happened if he hadn't been there?

Share this quote on facebook You know what they do with engineers when they turn 40? They take them out and shoot them.

Share this quote on facebook Aaron, I can imagine no way in which this thing could be considered anywhere remotely close to safe. All I know is I spent six hours in there and I'm still alive... You still want to do it?

Share this quote on facebook [His first experience in the machine] Maybe it was the dramamine kicking in, but I remember this moment in the dark with the reverberation of the machine. It was maybe the most content I've ever been.

Share this quote on facebook And I don't think there's ever been any reason to show you what I'm capable of...but I'm telling you this now. Go out there and do whatever it is you want. There's no way in the world I can stop you, but don't come back here. And don't come near them. Any of them.

Share this quote on facebook Kara: Did you call pest control?
Aaron: Babe, I'm telling you, they're birds. You don't want a bunch of dead baby birds up there. Do you?
Kara: They don't sound like birds.
Aaron: [to Abe] She thinks there are rats in the attic.

Share this quote on facebook Abe: I just want you to see it the way I saw it.
Aaron: I am trying, okay, I really am here.
Abe: Look, everything we're putting into that box becomes ungrounded, and I don't mean grounded like to the earth, I mean, not tethered. I mean, we're blocking whatever keeps it moving forward and so they flip-flop. Inside the box it's like a street - both ends are cul-de-sacs. I mean, this isn't frame dragging or wormhole magic, this is basic mechanics and heat 101.
Aaron: This is not mechanics and heat.

Share this quote on facebook Abe: [Notices Aaron's ear is bleeding] Whoa. You're bleeding.
[Takes handkerchief and places in on his ear]
Aaron: I got it.
[Holds it to his ear]
Aaron: Is this normal? This isn't normal.
Abe: For the machine?
Aaron: [Irritated] No, for people! What you think, it's the machine?
[Abe looks as if to help]
Aaron: All right, I got it!

Share this quote on facebook Abe: Do you have anything important going on at work today?
Aaron: I hope you're not implying that any day is unimportant at Cortex Semi.

Share this quote on facebook Aaron: Do you feel like a steak?
[Abe gives him a bemused look]
Aaron: To eat?

Share this quote on facebook Aaron: So...does it hurt?
Abe: Yeah. Yeah it does a little.

Share this quote on facebook If you always want what you can't have, what do you want when you can have anything?

Share this quote on facebook What happens if it actually works?

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