Munich (film) Quotes

Munich (film) is a TV program that was first aired in 1970 . Munich stopped airing in 1970.

It features Steven Spielberg, Kathleen Kennedy, Barry Mendel, and Colin Wilson as producer, John Williams in charge of musical score, and Janusz Kamiński as head of cinematography.

Munich (film) is recorded in English, and French and originally aired in United States, and Canada. Each episode of Munich (film) is 163 minutes long. Munich (film) is distributed by Universal Pictures.

The cast includes: Michael Lonsdale as Papa, Omar Metwally as Ali, Eric Bana as Avner, Ayelet Zurer as Daphna, Mathieu Kassovitz as Robert, Lynn Cohen as Golda Meir, Geoffrey Rush as Ephraim, Daniel Craig as Steve, Mathieu Amalric as Louis, Ciarán Hinds as Carl, Marie-Josée Croze as Jeanette, and Hanns Zischler as Hans.

Munich (film) Quotes

Michael Lonsdale as Papa

• (Michael Lonsdale) "Let me see your hands."
• (Michael Lonsdale) "Too big for a good cook. That was my problem too. I had been a master, but I have thick, stupid butcher's hands just like yours. Oh, we are tragic men. Butcher's hands, gentle souls."

• (Michael Lonsdale) "The race is not for the swift, nor the battle for the strong, But time and chance happens to them all. Fate's hand falls suddenly, who can say when it falls?"

• (Michael Lonsdale) "In my despair I have fathered madmen who dress like factory workers but never do manual labor, who read nonsense and spout pompous bulls*** about Algerians and, and who love nothing, not Algerians or French or flesh and blood or anything living."
• (Michael Lonsdale) "So I have sympathy for a man who can say "I have a papa." Who does what he must for his family."

Ciarán Hinds as Carl

• (Ciarán Hinds) "I knew guys like you in the Army. You do any terrifying thing you are asked to do, but you have to do it running. You think you can outrun your fears, your doubts -- The only thing that realy scares you is stillness. But everyone is overtaken eventualy."

• (Ciarán Hinds) "I knew guys like you in the army. You do any terrifying thing you're asked to do, but you have to do it running. You think you can outrun your fears, your doubts. The only thing that really scares you guys is stillness."

• (Ciarán Hinds) "It's strange, isn't it, to think of oneself as an assassin?"
• (Eric Bana) "Think of yourself as something else then."

Eric Bana as Avner

• (Eric Bana) "You don't own me. I don't exist."

• (Eric Bana) "Carl, you asshole -- I saw her first."

• (General Zamir) "Do you have any questions?"
• (Eric Bana) "So this isn't about guarding tourists on El Al jets?"
• (General Zamir) "No questions? Did we mention how dangerous this is?"

• (Eric Bana) "Break bread with me. Come on, you're a Jew in a foreign land. It's written somewhere I should invite you to break bread with me. Break bread with me, Ephraim."
• (Geoffrey Rush) "No."

• (Eric Bana) "She's frightfully ugly."
• (Ayelet Zurer) "She takes after her father."

• (Eric Bana) "If these people committed crimes we should have arrested them. Like Eichmann."
• (Geoffrey Rush) "If these guys live, Israelis die. Whatever doubts you have Avner, you know this is true."
• (Geoffrey Rush) "You did well but you're unhappy."
• (Eric Bana) "I killed seven men."
• (Geoffrey Rush) "Not Salameh. We'll get him of course."
• (Geoffrey Rush) "You think you were the only team? It's a big operation, you were only a part. Does that assuage your guilt?"
• (Eric Bana) "Did we accomplish anything at all? Every man we killed has been replaced by worse."
• (Geoffrey Rush) "Why cut my finger nails? They'll grow back."
• (Eric Bana) "Did we kill to replace the terrorist leadership or the Palestinian leadership? You tell me what we've done."
• (Geoffrey Rush) "You killed them for the sake of a country you now choose to abandon. The country your mother and father built, that you were born into. You killed them for Munich, for the future, for peace."
• (Eric Bana) "There's no peace at the end of this no matter what you believe. You know this is true."

• (Eric Bana) "Hey, sweetheart, this is your papa -- this my voice, my darling -- don't forget what I sound like, okay?"

• (Eric Bana) "We can't afford to be that decent anymore."
• (Mathieu Kassovitz) "I don't know if we were ever that decent."

• (Eric Bana) "It will be beautiful."

• (Eric Bana) "Stop -- chasing the mice inside your skull."

• (Eric Bana) "Every man we've killed has been replaced by worse."

• (Eric Bana) "How long into pregnancy are you supposed to stop having sex?"
• (Ayelet Zurer) "Labor."

Ayelet Zurer as Daphna

(We don't have any quotes for this character)

Marie-Josée Croze as Jeanette

• (Marie-Josée Croze) "I have to go to bed soon. I work in the morning."
• (Eric Bana) "What kind of work do you do?"
• (Marie-Josée Croze) "The kind that drives you to drink."
• (Eric Bana) "We must have the same job then."

• (Marie-Josée Croze) "Maybe you want to hire me. You know how good I am. No, don't. Such a f***ing waste of talent."

Daniel Craig as Steve

• (Daniel Craig) "Looks bloody by now."

• (Daniel Craig) "You know how to shoot, to assassinate people, right? I mean, you make dolls in a toyshop, and you -- you shop for sofas? And you- I don't know what you do."
• (Ciarán Hinds) "Me? I worry."
• (Daniel Craig) "So why did they make you team leader?"
• (Hanns Zischler) "Because he really knows how to cook a brisket."

• (Daniel Craig) "Look at the waistline bulge on that guy. Look at that. Think he might be armed, eh?"

• (Daniel Craig) "Don't f*** with the Jews."

Geoffrey Rush as Ephraim

• (Geoffrey Rush) "We deposit money from a fund that doesn't exist into a box we don't know about in a bank we've never set foot in. We can't help you because we never heard of you before."

• (Geoffrey Rush) "You think we'd hurt your family?"
• (Eric Bana) "I think anyone is capable of anything."
• (Geoffrey Rush) "I think you're losing your mind."
• (Eric Bana) "Did I commit murder? I want you to give me proof that everyone we killed had a hand in Munich."
• (Geoffrey Rush) "I don't discuss such things with people who don't exist. You want to discuss, come back into existence. You want your daughter to grow up in exile?"
• (Eric Bana) "I want evidence."

• (Geoffrey Rush) "You want the last of the baklava?"
• (Eric Bana) "No."
• (Geoffrey Rush) "Smart decision. You should avoid sweets. After all, you just signed away your dental insurance."

• (Geoffrey Rush) "We have 11 Palestinian names. Each had a hand in planning Munich. You're going to kill them, 11 men, one by one. They're all in Europe now. You'll stay there as long as it takes. Europe only, not the Arab countries. That's for us, not you. And not Eastern Bloc. Don't upset the Russians. Who needs it? You'll have no contact with us."
• (Eric Bana) "You're not going to give me any information?"
• (Geoffrey Rush) "We deposit money from a fund that doesn't exist into a box we don't know about, in a bank we never set foot in. We can't help you because we never heard of you before. You'll do what the terrorists do. You think they report back to home base? They don't. We want them dead."

• (Geoffrey Rush) "First you resign from Mossad,"
• (Geoffrey Rush) "Your new contract. It says we do not employ you, offer you benefits or pensions or legal aid or medical assistance. It's a contract that there is no contract."
• (Eric Bana) "Do I get a copy?"
• (Geoffrey Rush) "You don't."
• (Geoffrey Rush) "Your pension contribution refund. You're now officially unofficial, unemployed and uninsured."

• (Geoffrey Rush) "We deposit money from a fund that doesn't exist into a box we don't know about in a bank we've never set foot in."

• (Geoffrey Rush) "We kill for our future. We kill for peace."

Lynn Cohen as Golda Meir

• (Lynn Cohen) "I am hearing today with new ears."

• (Lynn Cohen) "Every civilization finds it necessary to negotiate compromises with its own values."

• (Lynn Cohen) "Your wife is pregnant?"
• (Eric Bana) "Yes, seven months."
• (Lynn Cohen) "Mazel tov. You were one of my favorite bodyguards. You know, I like neat, durable men."
• (Eric Bana) "You like having the son of a hero around?"
• (Lynn Cohen) "Truth be told, you don't look much like your father."
• (Eric Bana) "No?"
• (Lynn Cohen) "Your mother is who you resemble."

Mathieu Amalric as Louis

• (Mathieu Amalric) "You could have a kitchen like that someday. It costs dearly, but home always does."

• (Mathieu Amalric) "Europe has never been this interesting since Napoleon invaded Russia."

Hanns Zischler as Hans

(We don't have any quotes for this character)

Mathieu Kassovitz as Robert

• (Mathieu Kassovitz) "We are supposed to be righteous. That's a beautiful thing. And we're losing it. If I lose that, that's everything. That's my soul."

Omar Metwally as Ali

• (Omar Metwally) "Eventually the Arab states will rise against Israel. They don't like Palestinians, but they hate the Jews more. It won't be like 1967. The rest of the world will see by then what the Israelis do to us. They won't help when Egypt and Syria attack. Even Jordan. Israel will cease to exist. What?"
• (Eric Bana) "This is a dream. You can't take back a country you never had."
• (Omar Metwally) "You sound like a Jew."
• (Eric Bana) "f*** you. I'm the voice inside your head telling you what you already know. You people have nothing to bargain with. You'll never get the land back. You'll die old men in refugee camps waiting for Palestine."
• (Omar Metwally) "We have a lot of children. They'll have children. So we can wait forever. And if we need to, we can make the whole planet unsafe for Jews."
• (Eric Bana) "You kill Jews and the world feels bad for them -- and thinks you animals."
• (Omar Metwally) "Yes. But then the world will see how they've made us into animals. They'll start to ask questions about the conditions in our cages."
• (Eric Bana) "You are Arabs. There are lots of places for Arabs."
• (Omar Metwally) "You're a Jew sympathizer. All you Germans, you're too soft on Israel. Well, you give us money, but you feel guilty about Hitler. And the Jews exploit that guilt. My father didn't gas any Jews."
• (Eric Bana) "Tell me something, Ali."
• (Omar Metwally) "What?"
• (Eric Bana) "Do you really miss your father's olive trees? Do you honestly think you have to get back all that -- that nothing? that chalky soil and stone huts? Is that what you really want for your children?"
• (Omar Metwally) "It absolutely is. It will take a hundred years, but we'll win. How long did it take the Jews to get their own country? How long did it take the Germans to make Germany?"
• (Eric Bana) "And look how well that worked out."
• (Omar Metwally) "You don't know what it is not to have a home. That's why you European Reds don't get it. you say, "It's nothing," but you have a home to come back to. ETA, ANC, IRA -- we all pretend we care about your international revolution -- but we don't care. We want to be nations. Home is everything."

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