Jeremy Renner movie quotes

“- Ian Donnelly: If you immerse yourself into a foreign language, then you can actually rewire your brain.
- Louise Banks: Yeah, the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis. It's the theory that the language you speak determines how you think and...
- Ian Donnelly: Yeah, it affects how you see everything.”
Jeremy Renner - Ian Donnelly
Amy Adams - Louise Banks

“- Louise Banks: If you could see your whole life from start to finish, would you change things?
- Ian Donnelly: Maybe I'd say what I felt more often. I-I don't know.”
Amy Adams - Louise Banks
Jeremy Renner - Ian Donnelly

“You know I've had my head tilted up to the stars for as long as I can remember. You know what surprised me the most? It wasn't meeting them. It was meeting you.”

Jeremy Renner - Ian Donnelly

“- Jane Banner: What do you think?
- Cory Lambert: I only know what the tracks say.”
Elizabeth Olsen - Jane Banner
Jeremy Renner - Cory Lambert

“- Casey: Sorry, dad.
- Cory Lambert: Hey, what's the rule, bud, okay? A gun's always loaded, even if it ain't. Right?
- Casey: Yes.”
Teo Briones - Casey
Jeremy Renner - Cory Lambert

“Luck don't live out here.”
Jeremy Renner - Cory Lambert

“Wolves don't kill unlucky deer. They kill the weak ones. You fought for your life, Jane. And now you get to walk away with it.”
Jeremy Renner - Cory Lambert

“- Chip: Man, I get so mad. I wanna fight the whole world. You got any idea what that feels like?
- Cory Lambert: I do. But I decided to fight the feeling instead, 'cause I figured the world would win.”
Martin Sensmeier - Chip
Jeremy Renner - Cory Lambert

“We don't know if they understand the difference between a weapon and a tool.”

Jeremy Renner - Louise Banks

“- Louise Banks: The weapon is their language. They gave it all to us. Do you understand what that means?
- Colonel Weber: So we can learn heptapod. If we survive.
- Louise Banks: If you learn it, when you really learn it, you begin to perceive time the way that they do. So you can see what's to come. But time, it isn't the same for them. It's...” (continue)(continue reading)
Jeremy Renner - Louise Banks
Forest Whitaker - Colonel Weber

"Purpose" requires an understanding of intent. We need to find out, do they make conscious choices or is their motivation so instinctive that they don't understand a "why" question at all. And-And biggest of all, we need to have enough vocabulary with them that we understand their answer.

Jeremy Renner - Louise Banks

“Why did they park where they did? The world's most decorated experts can't crack that one. The most plausible theory is that they chose places on earth with the lowest incidence of lightning strikes. But there are exceptions. The next most plausible theory is that Sheena Easton had a hit song at each of these sites in 1980. So, we just don't know.”

Jeremy Renner - Ian Donnelly

“American kids did die and are still dying, just not the ones you care about apparently.”

Jeremy Renner - Gary Webb

“- William Brandt: Aw, c'mon! It's a high-speed chase and you just had to bring a four-wheels to it!
- Luther Stickell: You bought the car!
- William Brandt: You just had to have it!”

Jeremy Renner - William Brandt
Ving Rhames - Luther Stickell

“- William Brandt: Luther? What the hell are you doing there? You're supposed to be on assignment in Malaysia!
- Luther Stickell: I am in Malaysia. I've been here two days. Benji needed my help.”
Jeremy Renner - William Brandt
Ving Rhames - Luther Stickell

“- Guard at Liberty Gate: What the fuck are you doing?
- Staff Sergeant William James: I was in a whorehouse.
- Guard at Liberty Gate: All right. If I let you in, will you tell me where it is exactly?”

Ryan Tramont - Guard at Liberty Gate
Jeremy Renner - Staff Sergeant William James

“The cornerstone of civilization isn't language, it's science.”
Jeremy Renner - Ian Donnelly

“- Staff Sergeant William James: I had a girlfriend and, uh, she got pregnant, so we got married, and we got divorced... or, you know, I thought we got divorced. I mean, she's still living in the house and she says we're still together, so I... I don't know. Wha-what does... what does that make her? I don't know.
- Sergeant JT Sanborn: Dumb......” (continue)(continue reading)
Jeremy Renner - Staff Sergeant William James
Anthony Mackie - Sergeant JT Sanborn

- Ian Donnelly: Priority one: What do they want and where are they from? And beyond that, how did they get here? Are they capable of faster-than-light travel? I've prepared a list of questions to go over, starting with a series of "handshake" binary sequences...
- Louise Banks: How about we just talk to them before we start throwing math... (continue)(continue reading)

Jeremy Renner - Ian Donnelly
Amy Adams - Louise Banks
Forest Whitaker - Colonel Weber

Like their ship or their bodies, their written language has no forward or backward direction. Linguists call this "nonlinear orthography", which raises the question: Is this how they think?

Jeremy Renner - Ian Donnelly

“I thought my job was to tell the public the truth - the facts, pretty or not - and let the publishing of those facts make a difference in how people look at things. At themselves, at what they stand for. That's shame on me. This is the only thing I ever wanted to do. And for a while, a long while, it was an honor.”

Jeremy Renner - Gary Webb

“I retire for what, like, five minutes, and it all goes to shit.”
Jeremy Renner - Hawkeye

“You love playing with that. You love playing with all your stuffed animals. You love your mommy, your daddy, your nature pajamas. You love everything, don't ya? Yeah. But you know what, buddy? As you get older... some of the things that you love might not seem so special anymore, you know?”

Jeremy Renner - Staff Sergeant William James

“The city is flying and we're fighting an army of robots. And I have a bow and arrow. Nothing makes sense.”
Jeremy Renner - Clint Barton

“We're so bounded by time, by its order.”
Jeremy Renner - Louise Banks