The Master (2012)

Christopher Evan Welch: John More

Quotes 

• Lancaster Dodd : There are dangers of traveling in and out of time as we understand it. But it's not unlike traveling down a river, you see? You travel down the river, 'round the bend, look back, and you cannot see around the bend can you? But that does not mean it is not there, does it? But certain clubs would like us to think that a *truth*, I say *truth*, uncovered should stay hidden.

  John More : I belong to no club, and if you're unwilling to allow any discussion...

  Lancaster Dodd : No, this isn't a discussion, it's a grilling! There's nothing I can do for you, if your mind has been made up. You seem to know the answers to your questions, why do you ask?

  John More : I'm sorry you're unwilling to defend your beliefs in any kind of rational...

  Lancaster Dodd : If, if you already know the answers to your questions, then why ask *pig fuck*? We are not helpless. And we are on a journey that risks the dark. If you don't mind, a good night to you.

• John More : Some of this sounds quite like Hypnosis. Is it not?

  Lancaster Dodd : This is a process of dehypnotization, if you will. Man is asleep; this process wakes him from his slumber

  John More : I still find it difficult to see the proof with regards to past lives that your movement claims.

  Lancaster Dodd : Would you care to submit yourself to processing? You'd look through the telescope, as my friend said.

  John More : Perhaps another time. You've also said that these methods, cause methods can cure leukemia. According to your book...

  Lancaster Dodd : Some forms of Leukemia. In being able to access past lives we are able to treat illnesses that may have started back thousands even trillions of years

  John More : Trillions?

  Lancaster Dodd : With a tee, sir.

  John More : [chuckles]  Earth is not understood to be more than a few billion years old.

  Lancaster Dodd : Well even the smartest of our current scientists can be fooled, yes?

  John More : You can understand skepticism, Can you not?

  Lancaster Dodd : Yes, Oh yes yes. For without it we'd be positives and no negatives. Therefore zero charge, we must have it.

  John More : Good science by definition allows for more than one opinion, doesn't it?

  Lancaster Dodd : Which is why our gathering of data is so far-reaching.

  John More : Otherwise you merely have the will of one man. Which is the basis of cult. Is it not?

  Lancaster Dodd : Tis, tis. And thankfully we are, all of us, working at breakneck speeds, in the unison towards capturing the mind's fatal flaws and correcting it back to its inherent state of perfect. While righting civilization and eliminating war and poverty and therefore the atomic threat.

• John More : I find it quite difficult to comprehend, or more to the point, believe, that you believe, sir, that time travel hypnosis therapy can bring world peace and cure cancer.

  Lancaster Dodd : I have never been to the pyramids, have you?

  John More : No.

  Lancaster Dodd : And yet we know that they are there because learned men have told us so.

• Lancaster Dodd : What scares you so much about traveling into the past, sir?

  John More : I'm not frightened.

  Lancaster Dodd : Are you afraid that we might discover that our past has been reshapen? Perverted? And perhaps what we think we know of this world - is false information?