You either die a hero or you live long enough to see yourself become the villain.
The Dark Knight (2008)
Directed by Christopher Nolan
Lt. James Gordon: Everyone knows you’re Gotham’s White Knight.
The Dark Knight (2008)
Directed by Christopher Nolan
James Gordon Jr.: Why’s he running, Dad?
James Gordon: Because we have to chase him.
James Gordon Jr.: He didn’t do anything wrong.
James Gordon: Because he’s the hero Gotham deserves, but not the one it needs right now. So we’ll hunt him because he can take it. Because he’s not our hero. He’s a silent guardian, a watchful protector. A dark knight.
The Dark Knight (2008)
Directed by Christopher Nolan
The Joker: You and your kind, all you care about is money. This city deserves a better class of criminal. And I’m gonna give it to them!
The Dark Knight (2008)
Cobb: Worst case scenario? When he wakes up, his mind is completely gone.
Saito: Cobb. I’ll still honor the arrangement.
Cobb: I appreciate that, Saito, but when you wake up, you won’t even remember that we had an arrangement. Limbo’s gonna become your reality. You’re gonna be lost down there so long that you’re gonna become an old man.
Saito: Filled with regret.
Cobb: Waiting to die alone.
Saito: No. I’ll come back. And we’ll be young men together again.
Inception (2010)
Inception (2010)
Inception (2010)
Inception (2010)
Cobb: The reason I knew Inception was possible was because I…I did to her first. I did it to my own wife.
Ariadne: Why?
Cobb: We were lost in here. I knew we needed to escape but she wouldn’t accept it. She had locked something away, something… something deep inside. A truth that she had once known but chose to forget. She couldn’t break free. So I decided to search for it, I went deep into the recess of her mind and found that secret place. I broke in and I planted an idea, a simple little idea that would change everything. That her world wasn’t real.
Mal: That death was the only escape.
Inception (2010)
Alfred Pennyworth: A long time ago, I was in Burma, my friends and I were working for the local government. They were trying to buy the loyalty of tribal leaders by bribing them with precious stones. But their caravans were being raided in a forest north of Rangoon by a bandit. So we went looking for the stones. But in six months, we never found anyone who traded with him. One day I saw a child playing with a ruby the size of a tangerine. The bandit had been throwing them away.
Bruce Wayne: Then why steal them?
Alfred Pennyworth: Because he thought it was good sport. Because some men aren’t looking for anything logical, like money. They can’t be bought, bullied, reasoned or negotiated with. Some men just want to watch the world burn.
The Dark Knight (2008)
(submission by hannahwiththeblueeyes)
