The Final Cut (2004)

Robin Williams: Alan Hakman

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Quotes 

• Alan : [in the library]  Is Suicide under Self-Help?

• Alan Hakman : [dying words]  Will you look at that?

• Jennifer : Perhaps... some things are best forgotten.

  Alan : Perhaps.

• Alan Hakman : The dead mean nothing to me, Mrs. Bannister. I took this job because I respect the living.

• Alan Hakman : I need to speak to you alone.

  Thelma : Michael, why don't you go down to the store and buy some cigarettes?

  Michael : We got eight packs already.

  Thelma : Well, bring them back then. We don't need so many.

• Delila : A new cutting project? That, that's what you're talking to be about, Alan?

  Alan : Well, more than that.

  Delila : Alan, you've seen so much life and somehow you miss the point.

• Alan : They say that friends help you move, but good friends help you move bodies, don't they?

• Alan : If I try it myself, I'll die. And I will try it myself.

• Alan : There will be nothing I won't know soon.

• Alan Hakman : I forgive people long after they can be punished for their sins.

• Alan Hakman : My job is to let people remember what they want to remember, Fletcher. It fulfilled a human need. I didn't invent the technology.

• Delila : What is it?

  Alan Hakman : Some implants have defect. They can't see the difference between what the eye sees and what the mind sees.

  Delila : Everytime I think I've had it with you, you show me something amazing.

• Alan : Then you know what it's like to be haunted. One memory... one single incident has made me who I am. It won't leave me be. The guilt tears me apart.

• Thelma : Give the footage back to the widow. Let her deal with it.

  Alan : I can't give it back. There's someone in that project I haven't seen for years.

  Thelma : I hate it when that happens.

• Alan : You wanna take a shot too? Everybody else has.

• Fletcher : It's a strange profession you have, isn't it, Alan? You take people's lives, make lies out of them.

  Alan Hakman : It's been a long time, Fletcher.

  Fletcher : Eight years.

  Alan Hakman : Well, I don't have time to catch up right now.

  Fletcher : How can you handle it, Alan? People sleeping and shitting... people stealing from each other... manipulating each other.. the obscenity.

  Alan Hakman : I can't talk, I'm working.

• Delila : You fell in love with an image of me. Not the real me.

  Alan Hakman : At first. Now I want you the way you really are.

  Delila : I can't believe you after what you did.

• Alan : He died of a coronary complication.

  Simon : I was a complication, or didn't you get to that part yet?

• Legz, the Tattoo Artist : Now first we do the audio tattoo... and we wait a week. If you don't get a migraine and your system takes it... then we'll do the video tattoo.

  Alan : Do I have to cover my whole face?

  Legz, the Tattoo Artist : No. Those guys

  [referring to the men in the lobby with large face tattoos] 

  Legz, the Tattoo Artist : ... they're just young and angry. You want it discrete.

  Alan : Very.

  Legz, the Tattoo Artist : Yeah.

  Alan : Will this hurt?

  Legz, the Tattoo Artist : Oh, yeah.

• Fletcher : I heard you're not cutting any more.

  Alan : I've had enough of other people's lives.

• Delila : Why are you here? You know it doesn't work between us.

  Alan Hakman : I can change.

  Delila : You can't change. You're a man of marble.

  Alan Hakman : I still have some of your things. You want me to drop them off?

  Delila : Keep them as souvenirs.

  Alan Hakman : You wanna come by and pick them up?

• Delila : What about all the bits in between?

  Alan : It's a miniature. Concise, symmetrical. That's the way the world looks to me... the way I see it.

  Delila : How do you do this?

  Alan : It's what I was meant to do.

  Delila : You were meant to live your own life too.

• Isabel Bannister : Alan? Are you gonna fix what my daddy can remember?

  Alan : In a way, yes.

  Isabel Bannister : Can you make him forget that I drew on his contract with crayon.

  Alan : I will.

  Isabel Bannister : And that I pulled Dottie's hard so hard that she cried. Will he forget that?

  Alan : He'll forget.

  Alan : But make sure you don't.

• Hasan : May I speak frankly with you, Alan?

  Alan Hakman : Oh, Please.

  Hasan : You're a real prick.

• Alan : Some of us still live by the code, Fletcher. We didn't walk away. We have what it takes.

  Fletcher : And what does it take, Alan? Delusion? Obsession? Guilt? No, I don't have any of those... not as much as you do.

• Mrs. Monroe : Why are they tattooed like that?

  Alan Hakman : I'm not sure.

  Mrs. Monroe : It's so grotesque.

• Delila : Your phonecall got me all worried. I saw the mirror, what happened?

  Alan Hakman : I saw something.

• Delila : What do you have in this dump?

  Alan Hakman : Not much.