Minority Report (2002)

Lois Smith: Dr. Iris Hineman

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• Dr. Iris Hineman : Sometimes, in order to see the light, you have to risk the dark.

• Dr. Iris Hineman : It's funny how all living organisms are alike...

  [she starts crushing a mutated plant] 

  Dr. Iris Hineman : ...when the chips are down, when the pressure is on, every creature on the face of the Earth is interested in one thing and one thing only.

  Dr. Iris Hineman : [the plant scars her palm]  Its own survival.

• Dr. Iris Hineman : Find the minority report.

  John Anderton : How do I even know which one has it?

  Dr. Iris Hineman : It's always in the more gifted of the three.

  John Anderton : Which one is it?

  Dr. Iris Hineman : The female.

• John Anderton : That's all, huh? Just walk right into Precrime, go in the Temple, somehow tap into these Precogs, and then download this Minority Report.

  Dr. Iris Hineman : If you have one.

  John Anderton : And then walk out.

  Dr. Iris Hineman : Actually, I think you'll have to run out, but yes, that is what you have to do.

• Dr. Iris Hineman : The Precogs are never wrong. But, occasionally... they do disagree.

• John Anderton : Why should I trust you?

  Dr. Iris Hineman : You shouldn't. You shouldn't trust anyone. Certainly not the Attorney General who just wants it all for himself, and not the young Federal agent, who wants your job. Not even the old man who just wants to hold on to what he created. Don't trust anyone. Just find the Minority Report.

• [giving Anderton the antidote for a plant that has poisoned him] 

  Dr. Iris Hineman : You'd better drink this. Soon you won't be able to swallow, and then you'll be totally buggered.

• Dr. Iris Hineman : I call it a gift, for them it was more like a big cosmic joke.

• Dr. Iris Hineman : Oh, I'm afraid that would be from the Doll's Eye, the vine. The baneberry that scratched you during your illegal climb over my wall. It's not a true Doll's Eye, of course. It's a little hybrid of my own design. It's quite something. Once the poison gets into your bloodstream, you will start to see what I can only describe as the most extraordinary display of blue objects.

• Dr. Iris Hineman : This just isn't your week, is it, Chief Anderton?

• Dr. Iris Hineman : Just what is it you think I can do for you?

  John Anderton : You can tell me how someone can fake a prevision.

  Dr. Iris Hineman : How would I know that?

  John Anderton : Because you invented Precrime.

  [Dr. Hineman laughs] 

  John Anderton : What's so funny?

  Dr. Iris Hineman : If the unintended consequences of a series of genetic mistakes and science gone haywire can be called invention, yes, then I invented Precrime.