Snowden

Lindsay Mills: "Cellphone goes in the microwave."
[she takes MacAskill's phone and places in the microwave]
Ewen MacAskill: "Dare I ask why?"
Edward Snowden: "It blocks UHF frequencies."
Ewen MacAskill: "Before we get onto the stories I need to more about you."
Edward Snowden: "I'm twenty-nine years-old, I work as a private contractor for the NSA, for the CIA, I've worked in various jobs in the intelligence industry in the last nine years. It doesn't give me any comfort and now that we've made contact they're going to come for all of you too."
Laura Poitras: "How about we just start with your name, okay?"
Edward Snowden: "My name is Edward Joseph Snowden."

Edward Snowden: "How is this all possible?"
NSA Worker: "Think of it as a Google search except instead of searching only what people make public we're also looking at everything they don't. emails, chats, SMS, whatever."
Edward Snowden: "Yeah, but which people?"
NSA Worker: "All kingdom, Snow White."

NSA Worker: "You're making people very happy."
Edward Snowden: "Thank you."
NSA Worker: "Are you ready for a little action?"

NSA Dep. Director Lowell: "The average test time is five hours."
Edward Snowden: "I'm done."
NSA Dep. Director Lowell: "It's been forty minutes."
Edward Snowden: "Thirty-eight minutes. What should I do now?"
NSA Dep. Director Lowell: "Whatever you want."

"You have no idea what it's like to be accountable for other people's lives!"
[to Lindsay]

"What is it about this job that makes it more important than your life?"
[to Snowden]

Glenn Greenwald: "We are running out of time."
Edward Snowden: "They're gonna come for me. They're gonna come for all of you, too."

"The government knows that we have these documents now!"