The Adjustment Bureau (2011)

Matt Damon: David Norris

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• Elise Sellas : I'm not some hopeless romantic. I would never allow myself to be that way, but once I've felt, even for a moment, what I felt with you.

  Elise Sellas : You ruined me. I didn't want to settle for less.

  David Norris : I know the feeling.

  Elise Sellas : It scares the shit out of me.

  David Norris : I'm not going to hurt you.

  Elise Sellas : You don't need to say that.

  David Norris : I'm not going to hurt you.

• David Norris : What ever happened to Free Will?

  Thompson : We actually tried Free Will before. After taking you from hunting and gathering to the height of the Roman Empire we stepped back to see how you'd do on your own. You gave us the Dark Ages for five centuries... until finally we decided we should come back in. The Chairman thought maybe we just needed to do a better job of teaching you how to ride a bike before taking the training wheels off again. So we gave you the Renaissance, the Enlightenment, the Scientific Revolution. For six hundred years we taught you to control your impulses with reason, then in 1910 we stepped back. Within fifty years, you'd brought us World War I, the Depression, Fascism, the Holocaust and capped it off by bringing the entire planet to the brink of destruction in the Cuban Missile Crisis. At that point a decision was taken to step back in again before you did something that even we couldn't fix. You don't have free will, David. You have the appearance of free will.

• David Norris : I can go through this door alone. You'll never see me or the people chasing us again, or you can come with me, and I don't know what's on the other side, but you'd be next to me and that's all I've wanted since the minute I met you.

• David Norris : All I have are the choices I make, and I choose her, come what may.

• Elise Sellas : Were you just looking at my legs while I slept?

  David Norris : I was helpless against this small... dress there.

  Elise Sellas : It's a skirt.

  David Norris : It's a belt!

• David Norris : Now what?

  Harry Mitchell : [takes back his hat]  Now... you can take the stairs.

• Elise Sellas : You're that guy running for Senate, aren't you?

  David Norris : I am that guy... yeah. Are you a registered New York voter?

  Elise Sellas : Do I sound like I am?

• David Norris : So you handle the important things? The last time I checked, the world is a pretty screwed-up place.

  Thompson : It's still here. If we had left things in your hands, it wouldn't be.

• David Norris : Okay I can go through this door alone. You'll never see me or the people chasing us again, or you can come with me, and I don't know what's on the other side but I'll know you will be next to me, and that's all I wanted since the minute I met you.

  Elise Sellas : I'm coming with you.

• David Norris : Whatever it takes.

  Harry Mitchell : Your father used to say that.

• David Norris : I don't care what you put in my way, I'm not giving up!

• David Norris : I guess you're not supposed to identify with your subjects. You're not supposed to feel guilt.

  Harry Mitchell : We're not built to lead with our emotions like you are, but that doesn't mean we don't have them.

• Elise Sellas : What's happening to me?

  David Norris : All you need to know is we are being chased! I need you to trust me!

• David Norris : I'm gonna go for the blue door.

  Harry Mitchell : Of course!

• David Norris : Who the hell are you guys?

  Richardson : We... are the people that make sure things happen according to plan.

• Elise Sellas : You *have* to run again. Or the country will end up being run by fools like Linfield.

  David Norris : It kind of is.

• [first lines] 

  Podium Announcer : Let's welcome my favorite alumnus, and the next Senator from the State of New York, David Norris.

  David Norris : [to crowd]  Thank you! Thank you! Well hi there. My name David Norris, and I'd like to be the next Senator from the State of New York.

  Podium Announcer : [to baby]  Hey there, what's your name?

  David Norris : [to reporters]  I'm going to go through Yonkers, I'm going to go door-to-door and take the city that way...

• Harry Mitchell : We're not built to lead with our emotions like you, but that doesn't mean we don't have them.

  David Norris : Some more than others, it seems.

• David Norris : 911 Janet!