There Will Be Blood Quotes (2007)
Fletcher Hamilton: H.W. okay?
Plainview: No. He isn’t.
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]
Plainview: What would you like Eli?
Eli Sunday: Ten thousand dollars.
Plainview: For what?
Eli Sunday: For my church.
Plainview: That’s good. That’s a good one.
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-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 known 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 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 friendship in a rush like this. And this is why I can guarantee to start drilling and put up the cash to back my word. I assure you, whatever the others promise to do, when it comes to the showdown, they won’t be there…
H.W. Plainview: How much are we going to pay them?
Plainview: Who’s that?
H.W. Plainview: The Sunday family.
Plainview: We’re not going to give them oil prices. We’ll give them quail prices.
Eli Sunday: Get OUT of here, ghost!
Plainview: What’s this? Why don’t I own this? Why don’t I own this?
Al Rose: That’s the Bandy tract. He was the holdout, when we were doing the buying? He had hoped to speak with you… Can’t you just build the pipeline around this tract?
Plainview: Can I build around fifty miles of Tehachapi mountains? Don’t be thick in front of me, Al.
Al Rose: I can go to him again …
Plainview: No, I’ll go and talk to the man. I’ll talk to him, show you how it’s done.
Plainview: Now run along and play, and don’t come back.
William Bandy: I’m Bandy.
Plainview: Uh, yes. Yes. Uh, William Bandy. I’d like to lease your land.
William Bandy: I had asked for you to come and talk to be me before. When you were leasing land.
Plainview: That’s right, yes. My boy’s been very sick.
William Bandy: This was before your boy got sick. Now I know that you would like to build a pipeline through my property. Is that right, what I’ve heard?
Plainview: That’s absolutely right. It’s an eight-inch pipe. It can buried with your consent. I guarantee you absolutely no disruption …
William Bandy: God. God has told me what you must do.
Plainview: And what is that?
William Bandy: You should be washed in the blood of Jesus Christ.
Plainview: Oh, but I am. I have been washed, Mr. Bandy, I have been.
William Bandy: It’s your only way to salvation, and your only way for what you want. You can take it at the Church of the Third Revelation.
Plainview: I’ll pay you three thousand dollars.
William Bandy: I’d like you to be part of our church.
Plainview: I’ll pay you five thousand dollars.
William Bandy: Be baptized, be forgiven for the sin that you’ve done.
Plainview: What sin are you referring to Mr. Bandy? My sin of drilling?
Plainview: One night I’m gonna come to you, inside of your house, wherever you’re sleeping, and I’m gonna cut your throat.
Plainview: [wakes Henry with a gun] I want you to tell me something.
Henry Brands: What?
Plainview: What’s the name of the farm next to the Hill House?
[pause]
Plainview: What was the name of the farm next to the Hill House?
Henry Brands: I-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. He wasn’t killed, nothing bad. But he told me about you. I just took his story, used his diary. Daniel… Daniel? I’m your friend. I’m not trying to hurt you, just survive.
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 drilled.
Eli Sunday: …no they haven’t…
Plainview: It’s called drainage. I own everything around it… so I get everything underneath it.
Eli Sunday: But there are no derricks there. This is the Bandy tract. Do you understand?
Plainview: Do you? I drink your water, Eli. I drink it up. Everyday. I drink the blood of lamb from Bandy’s tract.
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.
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.
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]
Plainview: [to Eli] That was one goddamn helluva show.
Plainview: [to Eli] I told you I was going to eat you! I told you I was going to eat you up!
Eli Sunday: Things go up, things go down, but at least the Lord is always around.
Plainview: Drainage! Drainage, Eli! Drained dry, you boy! If you have a milkshake and I have a milkshake and I have a straw and my straw reaches across the room and starts to drink your milkshake. I drink your milkshake! I drink it up!
Gene Blaize: You boys are a regular family business… .
Plainview: Aren’t you a healer, and a vessel for the holy spirit? When are you coming over and make my son hear again? CAN’T YOU DO THAT?
Plainview: I want you to look over there.
H.M. Tilford: Hello, Daniel…
Plainview: Look over there. That’s my son. You see? See?
H.M. Tilford: Daniel…
Plainview: You see him? 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 happy for you that everything…
Plainview: I’ve made a deal with Union and my son is happy and safe and I’m taking care of him now. So you look like a fool, Tilford, don’t you?
H.M. Tilford: Yes.
Plainview: I told you what I was gonna do.
