Collateral (2004) quotes
Director
Michael Mann.
Cast
Tom Cruise.
Jamie Foxx.
Jada Pinkett Smith.
A cab driver finds himself the hostage of an engaging contract killer as he makes his rounds from hit to hit during one night in Los Angeles.
Look in the mirror. Paper towels, clean cab. Limo company some day. How much you got saved?
– Vincent
That ain’t any of your business.
– Max
Someday? Someday my dream will come? One night you will wake up and discover it never happened. It’s all turned around on you. It never will. Suddenly you are old. Didn’t happen, and it never will, because you were never going to do it anyway. You’ll push it into memory and then zone out in your barco lounger, being hypnotized by daytime TV for the rest of your life. Don’t you talk to me about murder. All it ever took was a down payment on a Lincoln town car. That girl,you can’t even call that girl. What the fuck are you still doing driving a cab?
– Vincent
A guy gets on the MTA here L.A. and dies. Think anybody’ll notice?
– Vincent
There’s no good reason, there’s no bad reason to live or to die.
– Vincent
Then what are you?
– Max
I’m indifferent.
– Vincent
Take comfort in knowing you never had a choice.
– Vincent
Most people – same job, same gig, doing the same thing 10 years from now. Us, we don’t know what we are doing 10 minutes from now.
– Vincent
Get with it. Millions of galaxies of hundreds of millions of stars, in a speck on one in a blink. That’s us, lost in space. The cop, you, me… Who notices?
– Vincent
Well, how many cabbies do you know get you into an argument to save you money?
– Annie
If there were two of us I’d have to kill the other one. I don’t like competition.
– Max
Max, six billion people on the planet, you’re getting bent out of shape cause of one fat guy.
– Vincent
Well, who was he?
– Max
What do you care? Have you ever heard of Rwanda?
– Vincent
Yes, I know Rwanda.
– Max
Well, tens of thousands killed before sundown. Nobody’s killed people that fast since Nagasaki and Hiroshima. Did you bat an eye, Max?
– Vincent
What?
– Max
Did you join Amnesty International, Oxfam, Save the Whales, Greenpeace, or something? No. I off one fat Angelino and you throw a hissy fit.
– Vincent
Man, I don’t know any Rwandans.
– Max
You don’t know the guy in the trunk, either.
– Vincent
You attract attention, you’re going to get people killed who didn’t need to be.
– Vincent
I’m not taking you to see my mother.
– Max
Since when was any of this negotiable?
– Vincent
Why didn’t you just kill me and get another cab driver?
– Max
Cause you’re good. We’re in this together. Fates intertwined. Cosmic Coincidence.
– Vincent
I can’t drive you around while you’re killing folks. It ain’t my job!
– Max
Tonight it is.
– Vincent
Max, I do this for a living!
– Vincent
You’re alive. I saved you. Do I get any thanks? No. All you can do is clam up. You wanna talk? Tell me to fuck off?
– Vincent
Fuck off.
– Max