Zero Dark Thirty (2012)

Mark Strong: George

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• C.I.A. Director : What's this - this cluster of buildings down here?

  George : The PMA - it's the Pakistani Military Academy.

  C.I.A. Director : [looks at him incredulously] 

  George : It's their West Point.

  C.I.A. Director : And how close is it to the house?

  George : About a mile.

  Maya : Four thousand, two hundred, twenty one feet; it's closer to eight-tenths of a mile.

  C.I.A. Director : Who are you?

  Maya : I'm the motherfucker that found this place. Sir.

• National Security Adviser : If this was political, we'd be having this conversation in October when there's an election bump. This is pure risk, based on deductive reasoning, inference, supposition, and the only human reporting you have is six years old, from detainees who were questioned under duress. The political move here is to tell you to go fuck yourself and remind you that I was in the room when your old boss pitched WMD Iraq. At least there you guys brought photographs.

  George : You know, you're right. I agree with everything you just said. What I meant was, a man in your position, how do you evaluate the risk of *not* doing something? Hmm? The risk of potentially letting bin Laden slip through your finger. That is a fascinating question.

• George : I want targets. Do your fucking jobs. Bring me people to kill.

• George : I want to make something absolutely clear. If you thought there was some secret cell somewhere, working al-Qaeda, then I want you to know that you're wrong. This is it. There's no working group coming to the rescue. There's nobody else hidden away on some other floor. There is just us. And we are failing. We're spending billions of dollars. People are dying! We are still no closer to defeating our enemy. They attacked us! On land, in '98. By sea, in 2000. And from the air, in 2001. They murdered 3,000 of our citizens in cold blood. And they have slaughtered our forward deployed! And what the fuck have we done about it, huh?

  [slamming his hand on the table] 

  George : We have we done? We have 20 leadership names, we've only eliminated four of them!