Richard Attenborough: John Hammond
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Quotes
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John Hammond : Don't worry, I'm not making the same mistakes again.
Dr. Ian Malcolm : No, you're making all new ones.
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[last lines]
John Hammond : It is absolutely imperative that we work with the Costa Rican Department of Biological Preserves to establish a set of rules for the preservation and isolation of that island. These creatures require our absence to survive, not our help. And if we could only step aside and trust in nature, life will find a way.
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Dr. Ian Malcolm : You sent my girlfriend to this island alone?
John Hammond : "Sent" is hardly the word. She couldn't be restrained. She was already working in San Diego, doing some research at the animal park. It's only a couple of hours' flight from there. And she was adamant, absolutely adamant about - here you are - well, making the initial foray by herself. She thinks she's Dian Fossey. "Observation without interference," she said. And she went on and on. Well, you know how it is.
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John Hammond : We've been on the verge of chapter 11 ever since that accident in the park. And there are those in the company who wanted to exploit Site B in order to bail us out. Well, they've been planning it for years, and I've been able to stop them up until now. But a few weeks ago, a British family on a yacht cruise stumbled across the island, and their wee girl was injured. Oh, she's fine, she's fine. But, uh, the board has used the incident to take control of InGen from me. And now it's only a matter of time before this... lost world is found and pillaged. Public opinion is the one thing that I can use to preserve it. But in order to rally that kind of support, I need a complete photo record of those animals, alive and in their natural habitat.
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John Hammond : [Malcolm learns his girlfriend is on an island of dinosaurs by herself] Oh, come on. She'll be fine. She spent years studying African predators, you know, sleeping downwind and all. She knows what she's doing. And believe me, the research team will...
Dr. Ian Malcolm : [holding up a hand to silence him] It's not a research expedition anymore. It's a rescue operation, and it's leaving right now.
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John Hammond : You were right and I was wrong there. Did you ever expect to hear me say such a thing? Thank God for Site B.
Dr. Ian Malcolm : Site B?
John Hammond : Isla Nublar was just a showroom, something for the tourists. Site B was the factory floor. That was Isla Sorna, 80 miles from Nublar. We bred the animals there and nurtured them for a few months and then moved them into the park.
Dr. Ian Malcolm : Oh, really? I-I did not know that.
John Hammond : Now, after the accident in the park, Hurricane Clarissa wiped out our facility on Site B. Call it an act of God. But we had to evacuate, of course, and the animals were released to mature on their own. "Life will find a way," as you once so eloquently put it. And by now we have a complete ecological system on the island, with dozens of species living in their own social groups, without fences, without boundaries, without constraining technology. And for four years... I've tried to keep it safe from human interference.
Dr. Ian Malcolm : Well... that's right, that's right. I mean, hopefully, you've kept this island quarantined, uh, and contained. But I'm in shock about all this. I-I mean, that they're still alive. Uh, you bred them lysine-deficient. Shouldn't they have, uh, kicked after seven days without supplemental enzymes?
John Hammond : Yes! But, by God, they're flourishing! That's one of a thousand questions I want the team to answer.
Dr. Ian Malcolm : Team?
John Hammond : Yes. I've... I've organized an expedition to go in and...
[using Malcolm as a crutch to stand up]
John Hammond : Thank you. And document them, to make the most spectacular living fossil record the world's ever seen.
Dr. Ian Malcolm : Wait a minute. Go in and document? What do you mean, like with people?
John Hammond : Yes. The animals won't even know they're there. Very low impact. Strictly observation and documentation.
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John Hammond : It's our last chance at redemption.
