The Zero Theorem (2013)

Christoph Waltz: Qohen Leth

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• Qohen Leth : Nothing adds up.

  Joby : No. You've got it backwards, Qohen. Everything adds up to nothing, that's the point.

  Qohen Leth : What's the point?

  Joby : Exactly. What's the point of anything?

• Bainsley : I knew you just seemed just - well, you were lonely.

  Qohen Leth : You're wrong. We were always alone, never lonely.

• Qohen Leth : Waiting for The Call. What other reason is there to pick up the phone?

• Qohen Leth : Why would you want to prove that all is for nothing?

  Management : I never said all is for nothing. I'm a businessman, Mr. Leth, nothing is for nothing. Ex inordinateo veni pecunia.

  Qohen Leth : What?

  Management : There's money in ordering disorder. Chaos pays, Mr. Leth.

• Bainsley : We'll go somewhere faraway, to a special place, on a tropical island. A real one. Just come with me. I know we connected somehow, you know? I know we did. And you need me. And I need to be needed so bad. Just come with me. You know we can be together for real. Just run away with me.

  Qohen Leth : No, we can't.

• Qohen Leth : Are you real, or just in my mind?

  Management : Doesn't matter at all. You're part of the neural web now.

  Qohen Leth : [extended silence]  ... so there is no answer?

  Management : That depends on the question.

  Qohen Leth : *What I'm living for?*

  Management : That's a good question Mr Leth, posed entirely to the wrong person. You see, it seems you've mistaken me for a considerably higher power. I'm not the source of your call. I'm not God or the Devil, I'm just a man... seeking the truth.

  Qohen Leth : *What Truth? If... *

  Management : Turn around and look

  [points toward black hole imagery] 

  Management : ... That's it. Chaos encapsulated. That's all there is at the end. Just as it was at the beginning.

  Qohen Leth : Well, there it is then. You've proved the zero theorem.

  Management : Not quite. Mancom is, as you say, still crunching the data.

• Bob : Did you know that more than 33 different aboriginal tribes believe that the soul resides somewhere in the lower intestinal tract? Absolutely true, but here's the zinger: none of these tribes have any knowledge of each other's existence. Coincidence? Coincidence? Why do you think all these separate peoples got such an idea?

  Qohen Leth : Dysintery.

• Qohen Leth : Another day... another day.

• Qohen Leth : What kind of work do you do exactly?

  Bainsley : I shoot trouble

• Bob : Are you having a good time?

  Qohen Leth : Approximately

• Bainsley : Are you here alone?

  Qohen Leth : We're generally everywhere alone.

  Bainsley : I love mystery... turns me on.

• Bainsley : Is that what's inside you? How can you live with that kind of emptiness?

  Qohen Leth : One day at a time.