There Will Be Blood Quotes
Plainview: [to H.W] You're killing us with what you're doing. You're killing my image of you.
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Plainview: Ladies and gentlemen... I've traveled over half our state to be here tonight. I couldn't get away sooner because my new well was coming in at Coyote Hills and I had to see about it. That well is now flowing at two thousand barrels and it's paying me an income of five thousand dollars a week. I have two others drilling and I have sixteen producing at Antelope. So, ladies and gentlemen... if I say I'm an oil man you will agree. You have a great chance here, but bear in mind, you can lose it all if you're not careful. Out of all men that beg for a chance to drill your lots, maybe one in twenty will be oilmen; the rest will be speculators-that's men trying to get between you and the oilmen-to get some of the money that ought by rights come to you. Even if you find one that has money, and means to drill, he'll maybe know nothing about drilling and he'll have to hire out the job on contract, and then you're depending on a contractor that's trying to rush the job through so he can get another contract just as quick as he can. This is... the way that this works.
Man: What is your offer? We're wasting time.
Plainview: I do my own drilling and the men that work for me, work for me and they are men I know. I make it my business to be there and see to their work. I don't lose my tools in the hole and spend months fishing for them; I don't botch the cementing off and let water in the hole and ruin the whole lease. I'm a family man- I run a family business. This is my son and my partner, H.W. Plainview. [indicates H.W]
Plainview: We offer you the bond of family that very few oilmen can understand. I'm fixed like no other company in this field and that's because my Coyote Hills well has just come in. I have a string of tools all ready to work. I can load a rig onto trucks and have them here in a week. I have business connections so I can get the lumber for the
Man: What is your offer? We're wasting time.
Plainview: I do my own drilling and the men that work for me, work for me and they are men I know. I make it my business to be there and see to their work. I don't lose my tools in the hole and spend months fishing for them; I don't botch the cementing off and let water in the hole and ruin the whole lease. I'm a family man- I run a family business. This is my son and my partner, H.W. Plainview. [indicates H.W]
Plainview: We offer you the bond of family that very few oilmen can understand. I'm fixed like no other company in this field and that's because my Coyote Hills well has just come in. I have a string of tools all ready to work. I can load a rig onto trucks and have them here in a week. I have business connections so I can get the lumber for the
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Eli Sunday: Mr. Bandy has a grandson. Have you met his grandson William? William Bandy is one of the finest members we have at the Church of The Third Revelation. He's eager to come to Hollywood to be in movies. He is very good-looking. And I do think he will have success.
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Plainview: There was that house in Fond Du Lac that John Hollister built- do you remember?
Henry Brands: Mmm.
Plainview: I thought as a boy that was the most beautiful house I'd ever seen and I wanted it. I wanted to live in it, and eat in it and clean it. And even as a boy, I wanted to have children to run around in it.
Henry Brands: You can have anything you like now, Daniel, and you should. Where are you gonna build it?
Plainview: Here, maybe. Near the ocean.
Henry Brands: Would you make it look like that house?
Plainview: I'm sure if I saw that house now it'd make me sick.
Henry Brands: Mmm.
Plainview: I thought as a boy that was the most beautiful house I'd ever seen and I wanted it. I wanted to live in it, and eat in it and clean it. And even as a boy, I wanted to have children to run around in it.
Henry Brands: You can have anything you like now, Daniel, and you should. Where are you gonna build it?
Plainview: Here, maybe. Near the ocean.
Henry Brands: Would you make it look like that house?
Plainview: I'm sure if I saw that house now it'd make me sick.
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Plainview : Are you an angry man, Henry?
Henry Brands : About what?
Plainview : Are you envious? Do you get envious?
Henry Brands : I don't think so. No.
Plainview : I have a competition in me. I want no one else to succeed. I hate most people.
Henry Brands : That part of me is gone... working and not succeeding- all my failures has left me... I just don't... care.
Plainview : Well, if it's in me, it's in you. There are times when I look at people and I see nothing worth liking. I want to earn enough money that I can get away from everyone.
Henry Brands : What will you do about your boy?
Plainview : I don't know. Maybe it will change. Does your sound come back to you? I don't know. Maybe no one knows that. A doctor might not know that.
Henry Brands : Where is his mother?
Plainview : I don't want to talk about those things. I see the worst in people. I don't need to look past seeing them to get all I need. I've built my hatreds up over the years, little by little, Henry... to have you here gives me a second breath. I can't keep doing this on my own with these... people. [ laughs ]
Henry Brands : About what?
Plainview : Are you envious? Do you get envious?
Henry Brands : I don't think so. No.
Plainview : I have a competition in me. I want no one else to succeed. I hate most people.
Henry Brands : That part of me is gone... working and not succeeding- all my failures has left me... I just don't... care.
Plainview : Well, if it's in me, it's in you. There are times when I look at people and I see nothing worth liking. I want to earn enough money that I can get away from everyone.
Henry Brands : What will you do about your boy?
Plainview : I don't know. Maybe it will change. Does your sound come back to you? I don't know. Maybe no one knows that. A doctor might not know that.
Henry Brands : Where is his mother?
Plainview : I don't want to talk about those things. I see the worst in people. I don't need to look past seeing them to get all I need. I've built my hatreds up over the years, little by little, Henry... to have you here gives me a second breath. I can't keep doing this on my own with these... people. [ laughs ]
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Plainview : Ladies and gentlemen... I've traveled over half our state to be here tonight. I couldn't get away sooner because my new well was coming in at Coyote Hills and I had to see about it. That well is now flowing at two thousand barrels and it's paying me an income of five thousand dollars a week. I have two others drilling and I have sixteen producing at Antelope. So, ladies and gentlemen... if I say I'm an oil man you will agree. You have a great chance here, but bear in mind, you can lose it all if you're not careful. Out of all men that beg for a chance to drill your lots, maybe one in twenty will be oilmen; the rest will be speculators-that's men trying to get between you and the oilmen-to get some of the money that ought by rights come to you. Even if you find one that has money, and means to drill, he'll maybe know nothing about drilling and he'll have to hire out the job on contract, and then you're depending on a contractor that's trying to rush the job through so he can get another contract just as quick as he can. This is... the way that this works.
Man : What is your offer? We're wasting time.
Plainview : I do my own drilling and the men that work for me, work for me and they are men I know. I make it my business to be there and see to their work. I don't lose my tools in the hole and spend months fishing for them; I don't botch the cementing off and let water in the hole and ruin the whole lease. I'm a family man- I run a family business. This is my son and my partner, H.W. Plainview. [ indicates H.W ]
Plainview : We offer you the bond of family that very few oilmen can understand. I'm fixed like no other company in this field and that's because my Coyote Hills well has just come in. I have a string of tools all ready to work. I can load a rig onto trucks and have them here in a week. I have business connections so I can get the lumber for the derrick; such things go by
Man : What is your offer? We're wasting time.
Plainview : I do my own drilling and the men that work for me, work for me and they are men I know. I make it my business to be there and see to their work. I don't lose my tools in the hole and spend months fishing for them; I don't botch the cementing off and let water in the hole and ruin the whole lease. I'm a family man- I run a family business. This is my son and my partner, H.W. Plainview. [ indicates H.W ]
Plainview : We offer you the bond of family that very few oilmen can understand. I'm fixed like no other company in this field and that's because my Coyote Hills well has just come in. I have a string of tools all ready to work. I can load a rig onto trucks and have them here in a week. I have business connections so I can get the lumber for the derrick; such things go by
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Plainview : You're not the chosen brother, Eli. It was Paul who was chosen. You see, he found me and told me about your land. You're just a fool.
Eli Sunday : Why are you talking about Paul? Don't say this to me.
Plainview : I did what your brother couldn't. I broke you and I beat you. It was Paul who told me about you. He's the prophet. He's the smart one. He knew what was there and he found me to take it out of the ground, and you know what the funny thing is? Listen... listen... listen... I paid him ten thousand dollars, cash in hand, just like that. He has his own company now. A prosperous little business. Three wells producing. Five thousand dollars a week. [ Eli cries ]
Plainview : Stop crying, you sniveling ass! Stop your nonsense. You're just the afterbirth, Eli.
Eli Sunday : No...
Plainview : You slithered out of your mother's filth.
Eli Sunday : No.
Plainview : They should have put you in a glass jar on a mantlepiece. Where were you when Paul was suckling at your mother's teat? Where were you? Who was nursing you, poor Eli- one of Bandy's sows? That land has been had. Nothing you can do about it. It's gone. It's had. You lose.
Eli Sunday : If you would just take this lease, Daniel...
Plainview : Drainage! Drainage, Eli, you boy. Drained dry. I'm so sorry. Here, if you have a milkshake, and I have a milkshake, and I have a straw. There it is, that's a straw, you see? You watching?. And my straw reaches acroooooooss the room, and starts to drink your milkshake... I... drink... your... milkshake! [ sucking sound ]
Plainview : I drink it up!
Eli Sunday : Don't bully me, Daniel! [ Daniel roars and throws Eli across the room ]
Plainview : Did you think your song and dance and your superstition
Eli Sunday : Why are you talking about Paul? Don't say this to me.
Plainview : I did what your brother couldn't. I broke you and I beat you. It was Paul who told me about you. He's the prophet. He's the smart one. He knew what was there and he found me to take it out of the ground, and you know what the funny thing is? Listen... listen... listen... I paid him ten thousand dollars, cash in hand, just like that. He has his own company now. A prosperous little business. Three wells producing. Five thousand dollars a week. [ Eli cries ]
Plainview : Stop crying, you sniveling ass! Stop your nonsense. You're just the afterbirth, Eli.
Eli Sunday : No...
Plainview : You slithered out of your mother's filth.
Eli Sunday : No.
Plainview : They should have put you in a glass jar on a mantlepiece. Where were you when Paul was suckling at your mother's teat? Where were you? Who was nursing you, poor Eli- one of Bandy's sows? That land has been had. Nothing you can do about it. It's gone. It's had. You lose.
Eli Sunday : If you would just take this lease, Daniel...
Plainview : Drainage! Drainage, Eli, you boy. Drained dry. I'm so sorry. Here, if you have a milkshake, and I have a milkshake, and I have a straw. There it is, that's a straw, you see? You watching?. And my straw reaches acroooooooss the room, and starts to drink your milkshake... I... drink... your... milkshake! [ sucking sound ]
Plainview : I drink it up!
Eli Sunday : Don't bully me, Daniel! [ Daniel roars and throws Eli across the room ]
Plainview : Did you think your song and dance and your superstition
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Plainview : There's a whole ocean of oil under our feet! No one can get at it except for me!
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Plainview : One night I'm gonna come to you, inside of your house, wherever you're sleeping, and I'm gonna cut your throat.
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Eli Sunday : Daniel, I'm asking if you'd like to have business with the Church of the Third Revelation in developing this lease on young Bandy's thousand acre tract. I'm offering you to drill on one of the great undeveloped fields of Little Boston!
Plainview : I'd be happy to work with you.
Eli Sunday : You would? Yes, yes, of course. Wonderful.
Plainview : But there is one condition for this work.
Eli Sunday : Alright.
Plainview : I'd like you to tell me that you are a false prophet... I'd like you to tell me that you are, and have been, a false prophet... and that God is a superstition.
Eli Sunday : ...but that's a lie... it's a lie, I cannot say it. [ long pause ]
Eli Sunday : When can we begin to drill?
Plainview : Right away.
Eli Sunday : How long will it take to bring in the well?
Plainview : Should be very quick.
Eli Sunday : I would like a one hundred thousand dollar signing bonus plus the five that is owed with interest.
Plainview : That's only fair.
Eli Sunday : I am a false prophet and God is a superstition. If that's what you believe, then I will say it.
Plainview : Say it like you mean it.
Eli Sunday : Daniel...
Plainview : Say it like it's your sermon.
Eli Sunday : This is foolish. [ long pause ]
Eli Sunday : I am a false prophet! God is a superstition! I am a false prophet! God is a superstition! I am a false prophet! God is a superstition! [ pause ]
Eli Sunday : Is that fine?
Plainview : Those areas have been drilled.
Eli Sunday : What?
Plainview : Those areas have been drille
Plainview : I'd be happy to work with you.
Eli Sunday : You would? Yes, yes, of course. Wonderful.
Plainview : But there is one condition for this work.
Eli Sunday : Alright.
Plainview : I'd like you to tell me that you are a false prophet... I'd like you to tell me that you are, and have been, a false prophet... and that God is a superstition.
Eli Sunday : ...but that's a lie... it's a lie, I cannot say it. [ long pause ]
Eli Sunday : When can we begin to drill?
Plainview : Right away.
Eli Sunday : How long will it take to bring in the well?
Plainview : Should be very quick.
Eli Sunday : I would like a one hundred thousand dollar signing bonus plus the five that is owed with interest.
Plainview : That's only fair.
Eli Sunday : I am a false prophet and God is a superstition. If that's what you believe, then I will say it.
Plainview : Say it like you mean it.
Eli Sunday : Daniel...
Plainview : Say it like it's your sermon.
Eli Sunday : This is foolish. [ long pause ]
Eli Sunday : I am a false prophet! God is a superstition! I am a false prophet! God is a superstition! I am a false prophet! God is a superstition! [ pause ]
Eli Sunday : Is that fine?
Plainview : Those areas have been drilled.
Eli Sunday : What?
Plainview : Those areas have been drille
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Plainview : [ to Paul Sunday ] If I travel all the way there and find out that you're a liar, I'll find you and take more than my money back, is that alright with you?
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Paul Sunday : I wanna go now. So, good luck to you.
Plainview : You can stay here tonight...
Paul Sunday : No. I wanna go now. I wanna leave.
Plainview : If I travel all the way there and I find out that you're a liar, I'll find you and I'll take more than my money back, is that alright with you?
Paul Sunday : Yessir.
Plainview : You can stay here tonight...
Paul Sunday : No. I wanna go now. I wanna leave.
Plainview : If I travel all the way there and I find out that you're a liar, I'll find you and I'll take more than my money back, is that alright with you?
Paul Sunday : Yessir.
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Eli Sunday : Do you think God is going to come down here and save you for being stupid? He doesn't save stupid people, Abel.
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Eli Sunday : You are a stupid man, Abel. You let some come in here and walk all over us. You let him in, and do his work here, and you are a stupid man for what we could have had.
Abel Sunday : I followed His word, Eli. I tried.
Eli Sunday : You didn't do anything but sit down. You're lazy, and you're stupid. Do you think God is going to save you for being stupid? He doesn't save stupid people, Abel. [ Eli jumps across the table and slams Abel to the ground ]
Eli Sunday : Look what you've done, you stupid man! How did he come here, do you want to know? I know!
Abel Sunday : Son, don't...
Eli Sunday : Be quiet! Shut your mouth, Abel. It was your stupid son! It was Paul who told him to come here. I know it. He went to him, and he said "My stupid, weak father will give away his lots. Go and take him."-and you let it happen. [ lets go of Abel ]
Eli Sunday : From a stupid father to a stupid son.
Abel Sunday : I followed His word, Eli. I tried.
Eli Sunday : You didn't do anything but sit down. You're lazy, and you're stupid. Do you think God is going to save you for being stupid? He doesn't save stupid people, Abel. [ Eli jumps across the table and slams Abel to the ground ]
Eli Sunday : Look what you've done, you stupid man! How did he come here, do you want to know? I know!
Abel Sunday : Son, don't...
Eli Sunday : Be quiet! Shut your mouth, Abel. It was your stupid son! It was Paul who told him to come here. I know it. He went to him, and he said "My stupid, weak father will give away his lots. Go and take him."-and you let it happen. [ lets go of Abel ]
Eli Sunday : From a stupid father to a stupid son.
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Plainview : There was that house in Fond Du Lac that John Hollister built- do you remember?
Henry Brands : Mmm.
Plainview : I thought as a boy that was the most beautiful house I'd ever seen and I wanted it. I wanted to live in it, and eat in it and clean it. And even as a boy, I wanted to have children to run around in it.
Henry Brands : You can have anything you like now, Daniel, and you should. Where are you gonna build it?
Plainview : Here, maybe. Near the ocean.
Henry Brands : Would you make it look like that house?
Plainview : I'm sure if I saw that house now it'd make me sick.
Henry Brands : Mmm.
Plainview : I thought as a boy that was the most beautiful house I'd ever seen and I wanted it. I wanted to live in it, and eat in it and clean it. And even as a boy, I wanted to have children to run around in it.
Henry Brands : You can have anything you like now, Daniel, and you should. Where are you gonna build it?
Plainview : Here, maybe. Near the ocean.
Henry Brands : Would you make it look like that house?
Plainview : I'm sure if I saw that house now it'd make me sick.
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Plainview : [ Daniel, suspicious of Henry, aims a gun at him ] I want you to tell me something.
Henry Brands : What?
Plainview : What's the name of the farm next to the Hill house? What was the name of the farm next to the Hill House?
Henry Brands : I can't remember...
Plainview : Who are you?
Henry Brands : I'll leave Daniel...
Plainview : Who. Are. You?
Henry Brands : I'm no one. Just let me get up and go.
Plainview : Do I have a brother?
Henry Brands : I met a man in King City who said he was your brother. We were friends for months, working in King City... and he wanted to make his way to you, Daniel, we didn't have any money... He died of tuberculosis. He wasn't harmed, wasn't killed, nothing bad, but he told me about you and I just took his story, and used his diary... Daniel, I'm your friend... I'm not trying to hurt you, just survive... [ Daniel fires the gun ]
Henry Brands : What?
Plainview : What's the name of the farm next to the Hill house? What was the name of the farm next to the Hill House?
Henry Brands : I can't remember...
Plainview : Who are you?
Henry Brands : I'll leave Daniel...
Plainview : Who. Are. You?
Henry Brands : I'm no one. Just let me get up and go.
Plainview : Do I have a brother?
Henry Brands : I met a man in King City who said he was your brother. We were friends for months, working in King City... and he wanted to make his way to you, Daniel, we didn't have any money... He died of tuberculosis. He wasn't harmed, wasn't killed, nothing bad, but he told me about you and I just took his story, and used his diary... Daniel, I'm your friend... I'm not trying to hurt you, just survive... [ Daniel fires the gun ]
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Eli Sunday : Oh, Daniel, please... I'm in desperate times. I need a friend... I feel the walls closing in. I've sinned! I need help! I'm a sinner! I've let the Devil grab hold of me in ways I never imagined! I'm so full of sin.
Plainview : The Lord sometimes challenges us, doesn't he?
Eli Sunday : Oh yes he does! Yes he does! Oh! He's completely failed to alert me to the recent panic in our economy and this! I must have this! I've invested... my investments have... Oh, Daniel, I won't bore you, but I... If I could grab the Lord's hands for help I would, but he does these things all the time, these mysteries that he presents and while we wait, while we wait... wait for his word...
Plainview : You're not the chosen brother, Eli. It was Paul who was chosen. He found me and he told me about your land. You're a fraud.
Eli Sunday : Why are you talking about Paul? Don't say this... don't say this to me, Daniel.
Plainview : I did what your brother couldn't. I broke you and I beat you.
Plainview : The Lord sometimes challenges us, doesn't he?
Eli Sunday : Oh yes he does! Yes he does! Oh! He's completely failed to alert me to the recent panic in our economy and this! I must have this! I've invested... my investments have... Oh, Daniel, I won't bore you, but I... If I could grab the Lord's hands for help I would, but he does these things all the time, these mysteries that he presents and while we wait, while we wait... wait for his word...
Plainview : You're not the chosen brother, Eli. It was Paul who was chosen. He found me and he told me about your land. You're a fraud.
Eli Sunday : Why are you talking about Paul? Don't say this... don't say this to me, Daniel.
Plainview : I did what your brother couldn't. I broke you and I beat you.
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Eli Sunday : We have a sinner with us here, who wishes for salvation. Daniel, are you a sinner?
Plainview : Yes.
Eli Sunday : The Lord can't hear you, Daniel. Say it to him. Go ahead and speak to him, it's alright.
Plainview : Yes.
Eli Sunday : Down on your knees and up to him. Look up to the sky and say it.
Plainview : What do you want me to say?
Eli Sunday : Daniel, you have come here and you have brought good and wealth, but you have also brought your bad habits as a backslider. You've lusted after women, and you have abandoned your child. Your child that you raised, you have abandoned all because he was sick and you have sinned. So say it now- I am a sinner.
Plainview : I am a sinner.
Eli Sunday : Say it louder- I am a sinner!
Plainview : I am a sinner.
Eli Sunday : Louder, Daniel. I am a sinner!
Plainview : I am a sinner.
Eli Sunday : I am sorry Lord!
Plainview : I am sorry Lord.
Eli Sunday : I want the blood!
Plainview : I want the blood.
Eli Sunday : You have abandoned your child!
Plainview : I have abandoned my child.
Eli Sunday : I will never backslide!
Plainview : I will never backslide.
Eli Sunday : I was lost, but now I am found!
Plainview : I was lost but now I'm found.
Eli Sunday : I have abandoned my child! [ Plainview glares at him ]
Eli Sunday : Say it... say it! [ Plainview mumbles ]
Eli Sunday : Say it louder... say it louder!
Plainview : I've abandoned my child! I've abandoned my child! I've abandoned my boy!
Plainview : Yes.
Eli Sunday : The Lord can't hear you, Daniel. Say it to him. Go ahead and speak to him, it's alright.
Plainview : Yes.
Eli Sunday : Down on your knees and up to him. Look up to the sky and say it.
Plainview : What do you want me to say?
Eli Sunday : Daniel, you have come here and you have brought good and wealth, but you have also brought your bad habits as a backslider. You've lusted after women, and you have abandoned your child. Your child that you raised, you have abandoned all because he was sick and you have sinned. So say it now- I am a sinner.
Plainview : I am a sinner.
Eli Sunday : Say it louder- I am a sinner!
Plainview : I am a sinner.
Eli Sunday : Louder, Daniel. I am a sinner!
Plainview : I am a sinner.
Eli Sunday : I am sorry Lord!
Plainview : I am sorry Lord.
Eli Sunday : I want the blood!
Plainview : I want the blood.
Eli Sunday : You have abandoned your child!
Plainview : I have abandoned my child.
Eli Sunday : I will never backslide!
Plainview : I will never backslide.
Eli Sunday : I was lost, but now I am found!
Plainview : I was lost but now I'm found.
Eli Sunday : I have abandoned my child! [ Plainview glares at him ]
Eli Sunday : Say it... say it! [ Plainview mumbles ]
Eli Sunday : Say it louder... say it louder!
Plainview : I've abandoned my child! I've abandoned my child! I've abandoned my boy!
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Eli Sunday : Beg for the blood!
Plainview : [ sotto voce ] Give me the blood, Eli, and let me get out of here. [ aloud ]
Plainview : Give me the blood, Lord, and let me get away!
Plainview : [ sotto voce ] Give me the blood, Eli, and let me get out of here. [ aloud ]
Plainview : Give me the blood, Lord, and let me get away!
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Plainview : [ to Eli ] I told you I was going to eat you! I told you I was going to eat you up!
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Plainview : [ Daniel has covered his face with a napkin ] So Standard offered us a million dollars for the Little Boston leases, and I told H. M. Tilford where he could shove that, and we made a deal with Union! On the pipeline! And that whole ocean of oil underneath our fields!
H.M. Tilford : [ to his tablemates ] ... 150,000 dollars...
Man : We needed the money to drill.
Man : I go out to meet him. He's getting oil on the property. We're trying to make a claim on it. Offered him a million dollars. Turned us down flat.
Plainview : [ growing frustrated ] All right. [ stands up, walks over and leans in to Tilford's face ]
Plainview : I want you to look over there. [ points towards H.W ]
H.M. Tilford : Daniel, let me introduce you...
Plainview : Look over there, you see. That's my son. You see him? You SEE?
H.M. Tilford : I see him.
Plainview : You don't tell me how to raise my family. I told you not to tell me how to raise my family. So, what do you see?
H.M. Tilford : I'm very happy for you that...
Plainview : Yes, I've made a deal with Union and my son is happy and safe.
H.M. Tilford : Congratulations. Excellent...
Plainview : I'm taking care of him now, so... You look like a fool, don't you Tilford?
H.M. Tilford : [ long pause ] Yes.
Plainview : Y-y-y-yes, you do.
H.M. Tilford : [ embarrassed ] Excuse me gentlemen...
Plainview : Oh, excuse me gentlemen. Excuse him, gentlemen. [ to Tilford ]
Plainview : I told you what I was gonna do. [ drinks Tilford's whiskey ]
H.M. Tilford : [ to his tablemates ] ... 150,000 dollars...
Man : We needed the money to drill.
Man : I go out to meet him. He's getting oil on the property. We're trying to make a claim on it. Offered him a million dollars. Turned us down flat.
Plainview : [ growing frustrated ] All right. [ stands up, walks over and leans in to Tilford's face ]
Plainview : I want you to look over there. [ points towards H.W ]
H.M. Tilford : Daniel, let me introduce you...
Plainview : Look over there, you see. That's my son. You see him? You SEE?
H.M. Tilford : I see him.
Plainview : You don't tell me how to raise my family. I told you not to tell me how to raise my family. So, what do you see?
H.M. Tilford : I'm very happy for you that...
Plainview : Yes, I've made a deal with Union and my son is happy and safe.
H.M. Tilford : Congratulations. Excellent...
Plainview : I'm taking care of him now, so... You look like a fool, don't you Tilford?
H.M. Tilford : [ long pause ] Yes.
Plainview : Y-y-y-yes, you do.
H.M. Tilford : [ embarrassed ] Excuse me gentlemen...
Plainview : Oh, excuse me gentlemen. Excuse him, gentlemen. [ to Tilford ]
Plainview : I told you what I was gonna do. [ drinks Tilford's whiskey ]
Movie: There Will Be Blood
Plainview : [ pitching his company to the people of Little Boston ] Ladies and gentlemen? Ladies and gentlemen. Thank you so much for visiting with us this evening. Now, I've traveled across half our state to be here and to see about this land. Now, I daresay some of you might have heard some of the more extravagant rumors about what my plans are; I just thought you'd like to hear it from me. This is the face. There's no great mystery. I'm an oilman, ladies and gentlemen. I have numerous concerns spread across this state. I have many wells flowing at many thousand barrels per day. I like to think of myself as an oilman. As an oilman, I hope that you'll forgive just good old fashioned plain-speaking. Now, this work that we do is very much a family enterprise- I work side by side with my wonderful son, H.W.- I think one or two of you might have met him already. And I encourage my men to bring their families, as well. Of course it makes for an ever so much more rewarding life for them. Family means children. Children means education. So wherever we set up camp, education is a necessity, and we're just so happy to take care of that. So let's build a wonderful school in Little Boston. These children are the future that we strive for and so they should have the very best of things. Now something else, and please don't be insulted if I speak about this - bread. Let's talk about bread. Now to my mind, its an abomination to consider that any man, woman or child in this magnificent country of ours should have to look upon a loaf of bread as a luxury. We're going to dig water wells here. Water wells means irrigation, irrigation means cultivation. We're going to raise crops here where before it just simply was impossible. You're going to have more grain than you'll know what to do with. Bread will be coming right out of your ears, ma'am. New roads. Agriculture. Employment, education. These are just a few of the things we can offer you, and I assure you ladies and ge
Movie: There Will Be Blood