The Time Machine (2002)

Jeremy Irons: Über-Morlock

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Quotes 

• Über-Morlock : We all have our time machines, don't we. Those that take us back are memories... And those that carry us forward, are dreams.

• Über-Morlock : You built your time machine because of Emma's death. If she had lived, it would never have existed. So how could you use your machine to go back in time and save her? You are the inescapable result of your tragedy, just as I am the inescapable result of you. You have your answer. Now go.

• Über-Morlock : Who are you to question 800,000 years... of evolution?

  Alexander Hartdegen : This is, this is a perversion of every natural law.

  Über-Morlock : [grabs him by the throat]  And what is time travel but your pathetic attempted to try to control the world around you? Your futile effort to have a question answered? You think I don't know you, Alexander? I can look inside your memories, your nightmares, your dreams. You're a man haunted by those two most terrible words: What if?

• Über-Morlock : We weren't always like this. After the Moon fell from the sky, the Earth could no longer sustain the species. Some managed to stay above. The rest of us fled underground. Then centuries later when we tried to re-emerge into the Sun again, we couldn't. So, we bred ourselves into castes.

• Über-Morlock : Come a little closer, I don't bite.