Hans Kieslowski

— Put your hands up.
— No.
— What?
— I said no.
— Why not? I don't want to.
— But I've got a gun.
— I don't care.
— But... it doesn't make any sense.
— Too bad.

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— When you gonna get a job that ain't just stealing from folks, Hans?
— I'm a 63-year-old, ain't worked in 20 years.
— Myra, where am I gonna get a job?
— Government.
— Government? "A job that ain't just stealing from folks"? Government?

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— You ain't gonna fight. Of course I ain't gonna fight, but I ain't gonna run.
— What are you gonna do, then?
— I guess I'm gonna die.
— Friends don't make their friends die, Hans.
— Psychopathic friends do.

— But you've just seen Myra on a chair with a bullet through her head. In some gray place.
— England?

— Well, as Gandhi said...
— Oh, you two. If it ain't Gandhi, it's Jesus Christ.
— "An eye for an eye leaves the whole world blind." I believe that wholeheartedly.
— No, it doesn't. There'll be one guy left with one eye. How's the last blind guy gonna take out the eye of the last guy left who's still got one eye? All that guy has to do is run away and hide behind a bush. Gandhi was wrong. It's just that nobody's got the balls to come right out and say it.