Sicario (2015) quotes
Director
Denis Villeneuve.
An idealistic FBI agent is enlisted by a government task force to aid in the escalating war against drugs at the border area between the U.S. and Mexico.
You’re asking me how a watch works. For now we’ll just keep an eye on the time.
– Alejandro
You should move to a small town, somewhere the rule of law still exists. You will not survive here. You are not a wolf, and this is a land of wolves now.
– Alejandro
Nothing will make sense to your American ears, and you will doubt everything that we do, but in the end you will understand.
– Alejandro
Not in front of my boys.
– Fausto Alarcon
Go ahead and finish your meal…
– Alejandro
Go ahead and finish your meal.
– Alejandro
Don’t ever point a gun at me again.
– Alejandro
Medellin refers to a time when one group controlled every aspect of the drug trade, providing a measure of order that we could control. And until somebody finds a way to convince 20% of the population to stop snorting and smoking that shit, order’s the best we can hope for. And what you saw up there, was Alejandro working toward returning that order.
– Matt
Alejandro works for the fucking Colombian Cartel.
– Kate Macer
He works for the competition. Alejandro works for anyone who will point him toward the people who made him. Us. Them. Anyone who will turn him loose. So, he can get the person that cut off his wife’s head, and threw his daughter into a vat of acid. Yeah. That’s what we’re dealing with.
– Matt
Advisors like Matt come in, they stir the pot, they cause the criminals to react and make mistakes. That’s how we build cases against the individuals that actually make a difference in this fight. It’s when they’re nervous, when they stop trusting their crews, when they move their money. These are all opportunities to strike. And that’s the purpose of people like Matt.
– Phil Coopers
Kate, this isn’t something that I dreamed up myself. I don’t have the authority to hire advisors, or authorize joint agency missions, or fly agents from Air Force bases. Are you understanding me? These decisions are made far from here, by officials elected to office, not appointed to them. So, if your fear is operating out of bounds, I am telling you, you are not. The boundary’s been moved.
– Dave Jennings
What am I doing here?
– Kate Macer
What you’re doing here is you’re giving us the opportunity to shake the tree and create chaos. That’s what this is! In the meantime, just sponge everything up you see. Learn! That’s why you’re here.
– Matt
Welcome to Juarez
– Alejandro
You used me as bait.
– Kate Macer
Nah, you used yourself as bait.
– Matt
You look like a little girl when you’re scared.
– Alejandro
You saw things you shouldn’t have seen.
– Matt
I just tried to have sex with my hitman.
– Kate Macer
Nah, he’s no assassin. He just wanted to know what you know. They’re after us, not you.
– Alejandro
Fausto Alarcon “El Verdugo”. Every day across that border, people are kidnapped or killed by his hand or with his blessing. To find him would be like discovering a vaccine. You understand the value of that?
– Matt