The International * Quotes

"Sometimes the hardest thing in life is to know which bridge to cross and which to burn... I'm the one you burn."

"We cannot control the things life does to us. They are done before you know it, and once they are done, they make you do other things. Until at last everything comes between you and the man you wanted to be."

"When there's no way out, you find a deeper way in."

"The IBBC is a bank. Their objective isn't to control the conflict, it's to control the debt that the conflict produces. You see, the real value of a conflict, the true value, is in the debt that it creates. You control the debt, you control everything. You find this upsetting, yes? But this is the very essence of the banking industry, to make us all, whether we be nations or individuals, slaves to debt."
[about the true nature of banking]

"Sometimes a man can meet his destiny on the road he took to avoid it."

Eleanor Whitman: "We are just trying to get to the truth!"
New York D.A.: "I get it! But what you need to remember is that there's what people want to hear, there's what people want to believe, there's everything else, *then* there's the truth!"
Eleanor Whitman: "And since when it's that OK? I can't even believe you are saying this to me! The truth means responsibility, Arnie!"
New York D.A.: "Exactly! Which is why everyone dreads it!"

"Well, this is the difference between truth and fiction. Fiction has to make sense."