Memorable Quotes from Swordfish

Stanley: How the fuck can you justify all this??
Gabriel: You're not looking at the big picture.Stanley, here's a scenario.
You have the power to cue all of the world's diseases.
But the price for this is that you must kill a single, innocent child.
Could you kill that child to save the world?
Stanley: No.
Gabriel: You disappoint me, Stanley. It's the greatest good.
Stanley: How about ten innocents?
Gabriel: Now you are getting it. How about a hundred? How about a thousand?
Not to save the world, but just to preserve our way of life.
Stanley: No man has the right to make that decision. You're no different than
any other terrorist.
Gabriel: You're wrong, Stanley. Some men are put here to shape destiny,
to protect freedom, despite the atrocities they must commit.
I am one of those men. Thousands die every day for no reason at all,
where is your bleeding heart for them? You give 20 dollars to
Greenpeace every year and think you are changing the world?
What countries will harbor terrorist, when they realize the
consequences of what I will do? Do you know I can buy a nuclear
warheads in Minsk for 40 million each? I buy half a dozen, I even
get a discount.

Gabriel :
You know what the problem with Hollywood is? They make shit.
Unbelievable, unremarkable shit. Now I'm not some grungy wannabe filmmaker
that's searching for existentialism through a haze of bong smoke or something.
No, it's easy to pick apart bad acting, short-sighted directing,
and a purely moronic stringing together of words that many of the studios
term as "prose". No, I'm talking about the lack of realism. Realism;
not a pervasive element in today's modern American cinematic vision.
Take Dog Day Afternoon, for example. Arguably Pacino's best work, short of
Scarface and Godfather Part 1, of course. Masterpiece of directing,
easily Lumet's best. The cinematography, the acting, the screenplay,
all top-notch. But... they didn't push the envelope. Now what if in Dog Day,
Sonny REALLY wanted to get away with it?
What if - now here's the tricky part - what if he started killing hostages
right away? No mercy, no quarter. "Meet our demands or the pretty blonde in
the bellbottoms gets it the back of the head." Bam, splat! What, still no bus?
Come on! How many innocent victims splattered across a window would it take
to have the city reverse its policy on hostage situations? And this is 1976;
there's no CNN, there's no CNBC, there's no internet! Now fast forward to
today, present time, same situation. How quickly would the modern media make
a frenzy over this? In a matter of hours, it'd be biggest story from Boston
to Budapest! Ten hostages die, twenty, thirty; bam bam, right after another,
all caught in high-def, computer-enhanced, color corrected.
You can practically taste the brain matter. All for what? A bus, a plane?
A couple of million dollars that's federally insured? I don't think so.
Just a thought. I mean, it's not within the realm of conventional cinema...
but what if?