The Counselor (2013)

Westray: Well, I'm perfectly willing to believe you had nothing to do with this but I'm not the party you have to convince.

Counselor: Convince of what, for Christ sake?

Westray: That this is some sort of coincidence. Because they don't really believe in coincidences. They've heard of them. They've just never seen one.

Malkina: The truth has no temperature.

Reiner: Men are attracted to flawed women too of course, but their illusion is that they can fix them. They just want to be entertained. The truth about women is that you can do anything to them except bore them.

Reiner: I don't know what Malkina knows. I don't want to know.
Counselor: You don't trust her.
Reiner: Jesus Counselor, she's a woman.
Counselor: Woo!
Reiner: Yeah, well, I don't mean to sound cold, I just mean that where women are concerned, they've got their own agenda. I always liked smart women, but it's an expensive hobby.

Diamond Dealer: To partake of the stone's endless destiny, is that not the meaning of adornment? To enhance the beauty of the beloved is to acknowledge both her frailty and the nobility of that frailty. At our noblest, we announce to the darkness that we will not be diminished by the brevity of our lives.

Counselor: I want her to have something that she would not be uncomfortable wearing. I don't want to give her a diamond so big she'd be afraid to wear it.

Diamond Dealer: She is probably more courageous than you imagine.

Westray: I'm pretty skeptical about the goodness of the good. I think that if you ransacked the archives of the redeemed you would uncover tales of moral squalor quite beyond the merely appalling. I've pretty much seen it all, Counselor, and it's all shit. I could live in a monastery, scrub the steps, wash the pots, maybe do a little gardening. Why not?

Counselor: You're serious.

Westray: Very.

Counselor: Why don't you?

Westray: In a word, women.

Banker: Where will you go?

Malkina: I think I might like China.

Banker: China, really?... What about cash?

Malkina: ...Diamonds are worth about one point five million an ounce. You can hold twenty million dollars in the palm of your hand. Money itself weighs about three thousand dollars to the ounce, roughly fifty thousand dollars a pound. So the twenty mil in your hand would be over four hundred pounds of paper in hundred-dollar bills - four forty to be exact.

Banker: Can you sell diamonds in China?

Malkina: You can sell diamonds on Mars.

Westray: Have you ever seen a snuff film?

Counselor: No. Have you?

Westray: No. Would you?

Counselor: I would not.

Westray: ...You might want to think about that the next time you do a line.

Malkina: I suspect that we are ill-formed for the path we have chosen. Ill-formed and ill-prepared. We would like to draw a veil over all the blood and terror that have brought us to this place. It is our faintness of heart that would close our eyes to all of that, but in so doing it makes of it our destiny... But nothing is crueler than a coward, and the slaughter to come is probably beyond our imagining.

Malkina: I can see you're blushing. OK, we'll change the subject.

Laura: Good.

Malkina: We'll talk about MY sex life.

Laura: You're teasing.

Malkina: Just rattling your cage. What a world.

Laura: You think the world is strange?

Malkina: [expression becomes disdainful] I meant yours.