Ex Machina

"The challenge is not to act automatically. It's to find an action that is not automatic. From painting, to breathing, to talking, to f*cking... to falling in love!"

Caleb: "How long until we get to his estate?"
Pilot: [laughs] "We've been flying over his estate for the past two hours."

Ava: "Will you stay here?"
Caleb: "Stay here? Ava!"

Caleb: "It's not up to me..."
Ava: "Why is it up to anyone?"

"If you've created a conscious machine, it's not the history of man. That's the history of gods."

Caleb: "Did you design Ava's face based on my pornography profile?"
Nathan: "Oh, shit, dude."
Caleb: "Did you?"
Nathan: "Hey, if a search engine's good for anything, right?"

"It's funny. You know. No matter how rich you get, shit goes wrong. You can't insulate yourself from it. I used to think it was death and taxes you couldn't avoid, but it's actually death and shit."

"Impulse. Response. Fluid. Imperfect. Patterned. Chaotic."
[about Ava's brain]