“Official Secrets” quotes
(2019)
Title Official Secrets
Year 2019
Director Gavin Hood
Genre Drama, Crime, Biography
Year 2019
Director Gavin Hood
Genre Drama, Crime, Biography
All actors – Keira Knightley, Matt Smith, Matthew Goode, Rhys Ifans, Adam Bakri, Ralph Fiennes, Conleth Hill, Indira Varma, Jeremy Northam, John Heffernan, Monica Dolan, Tamsin Greig, Niccy Lin, Jack Farthing, Gabrielle Downey, Fiona Skinner, MyAnna Buring, Lindy Whiteford, Ray Panthaki, Janie Dee, Hattie Morahan, Will Barton, Katherine Kelly, Raad Rawi, Clive Francis, Martin Bright, Vanessa Thorpe, Hanako Footman, Shaun Dooley, Sophie Duval, Stuart Ramsay, Peter Guinness, Chris Reilly, Jodie McNee, David Maybrick, Simon Rogers, Raquel Cassidy, Corinna Wilson, Brett Allen, Chris Larkin, Patrick Moy, Vinta Morgan, Jessica Fostekew, Michael James, Kenneth Cranham, Angus Wright, Manoj Anand, Rodrig Andrisan, Raj Awasti, Antony Barlow, Paul Blackwell, Tony Blair, George W. Bush, Lee Byford, Shafi Choudhury, Rene Costa, Grant Crookes, Darrell D'Silva, Adam Darlington, Gary Davies, Mark Anthony Dawson, Ari Fleischer, Anthony G Hamer, Jane Hamer, Tony Holness, Daniel Hopkins, Mark Hugh-Williams, Joanne James, Jess Kaur, Craig Thomas Lambert, Lora Moss, Colin Murtagh, Anneliese Orr, T. Mark Owens, Tina Louise Owens, Shayast Panezai, Mark Phillips, Colin Powell, Mark Preston, Paul Redfern, Jatinder Rehal, Nig Richards, John Alan Roberts, Bianca Rudman, Frank Saul, Mansoor Shah, Atul Sharma, Dave Simon, Nicola Simonds, Kieran Thomas, Tim Walker, Martin Webbe, Jo Wheatley, Tim Wildman, John James Woodward
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“Governments change. I work for the British people. I gather intelligence so that the government can protect the British people. I do not gather intelligence so that the government can lie to the British people.”
“- Ben Emmerson: Why did you keep her in a state of distress for a year before you brought charges?
- Ken Macdonald: The services wanted to make an example of her. If we'd dropped the case any earlier, what kind of messages would that have sent?
- Ben Emmerson: Do me a favour, Ken. Go and fish somewhere else.”“I have also always believed that censorship when called for should be based on security issues alone not on whether a news report might embarrass a government.”
“Following orders is not a defense to a war crime.”
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