The Discovery (I) (2017)

Mary Steenburgen: Interviewer

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• [first lines] 

  Interviewer : Dr. Harber, before we're live, I just wanted to say thank you for choosing me.

  Thomas : [warming up his voice]  Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers.

  Interviewer : The rich history you have with other journalists...

  Thomas : I chose you precisely because we don't have a history. Now, don't fuck it up.

  Producer : Fifteen seconds...

• Interviewer : Death used to be something we just had to live with, and now it's a convenient way to escape pain. That's okay.

  Will : That's okay? Another plane of existence, maybe. Who knows? But I look around, I see a lot of people jumping out of planes hoping they're gonna grow wings. And reality and fantasy are mutually exclusive. They don't exist in the same space.

• Thomas : When you see a train leave the station... do you need to know where it's going to understand that you saw it leave?

  Interviewer : It's a tough pill to swallow.

  Thomas : At one point, so was the Earth being round.