There Will Be Blood Quotes

There Will Be Blood is a TV show that debuted in 1970 . There Will Be Blood ended its run in 1970.

It features JoAnne Sellar, Paul Thomas Anderson, and Daniel Lupi as producer, Jonny Greenwood in charge of musical score, and Robert Elswit as head of cinematography.

There Will Be Blood is recorded in English and originally aired in United States. Each episode of There Will Be Blood is 158 minutes long. There Will Be Blood is distributed by Paramount Vantage; Miramax Films.

The cast includes: David Willis as Eli Sunday, Daniel Day-Lewis as Plainview, Barry Del Sherman as Man, David Warshofsky as H.M. Tilford, Paul Dano as Paul Sunday, Jim Downey as Al Rose, Dillon Freasier as H.W. Plainview, Ciarán Hinds as Fletcher Hamilton, Paul F. Tompkins as Prescott, David Willis as Abel Sunday, and Hans Howes as William Bandy.

There Will Be Blood Quotes

Daniel Day-Lewis as Plainview

• (Daniel Day-Lewis) "I'm gonna bury you underground, Eli."

• (Daniel Day-Lewis) "What's this? Why don't I own this? Why don't I own this?"
• (Jim Downey) "That's the Bandy tract. He was the holdout, when we were doing the buying? He had hoped to speak with you. Can't you just build the pipeline around this tract?"
• (Daniel Day-Lewis) "Can I build around fifty miles of Tehachapi Mountains? Don't be thick in front of me, Al."
• (Jim Downey) "I can go to him again --"
• (Daniel Day-Lewis) "No, I'll go and talk to the man. I'll talk to him, show you how it's done."

• (Daniel Day-Lewis) "Mr. Bankside, I'm not going to waste your time; I'd certainly appreciate it if you didn't waste mine. Now, if you wish to sign with me, we can have a well drilling within ten days, but your lot is further north from the discovery well up here, and so -- Well, that means we'll probably have to dig deeper. And if there's as much oil here as I think there is, it'll be harder to reach, but once we find it, we can take it right out. You have to act quickly, because very soon these fields will be dry. Now -- I need you to know what you want to do. Now, because of the distance from the discovery well, I'll pay you a smaller royalty than you'd get down there, but I'm prepared to give you a thousand dollar bonus on your lot."
• (Mr. Bankside) "What kind of royalty are you talking about?"
• (Daniel Day-Lewis) "1/6th, plus a guarantee to start drilling within ten days. Now, that's something you won't find anywhere else."
• (Daniel Day-Lewis) "What age your children, ma'am?"
• (Mrs. Bankside) "10 and 12. Mr. Plainview, a question, sir. Where is your wife?"
• (Daniel Day-Lewis) "She died in childbirth, Mrs. Bankside, so I -- so -- Well, it's just me and my son now."

• (Daniel Day-Lewis) "Ladies and gentlemen -- I've traveled over half our state to be here tonight. I couldn't get away sooner because my new well was coming in at Coyote Hills and I had to see about it. That well is now flowing at two thousand barrels and it's paying me an income of five thousand dollars a week. I have two others drilling and I have sixteen producing at Antelope; so, ladies and gentlemen, if I say I'm an oil man, you will agree. Now, you have a great chance here, but bear in mind, you can lose it all if you're not careful. Out of all men that beg for a chance to drill your lots, maybe one in twenty will be oilmen; the rest will be speculators; that's men trying to get between you and the oilmen; to get some of the money that ought by rights come to you. Even if you find one that has money and means to drill, he'll maybe know nothing about drilling and he'll have to hire the job out on contract, and then you're depending on a contractor who'll rush the job through so he can get another contract just as quick as he can. This is -- the way that this works."
• (Barry Del Sherman) "Well, what is your offer? W-w-we're wasting time."
• (Daniel Day-Lewis) "I do my own drilling, and the men that work for me work for me. and they're men I know. I make it my business to be there and to see their work. I don't lose my tools in the hole and spend months fishing for them; I don't botch the cementing off and let water in the hole and ruin the whole lease. I'm a family man. I run a family business. This is my son and my partner, H.W. Plainview."
• (Daniel Day-Lewis) "We offer you the bond of family that very few oilmen can understand. I'm fixed like no other company in this field and that's because my Coyote Hills well has just come in. I have a string of tools all ready to put to work. I can load a rig onto trucks and have them here in a week. I have business connections so I can get the lumber for the derrick; such things go by friendship in a rush like this; and this is why I can guarantee to start drilling and to put up the cash to back my word. I assure you, ladies and gentlemen, no matter what the others promise to do, when it comes to the showdown, they won't be there."

• (Daniel Day-Lewis) "There's that house in Fond Du Lac that, uh, John Hollister built. Do you remember it?"
• (Henry Brands) "Mmm."
• (Daniel Day-Lewis) "I thought as a boy that was the most beautiful house I'd ever seen, and I wanted it. I wanted to live in it, and eat in it, and clean it -- And even as a boy, I wanted to have children to run around in it."
• (Henry Brands) "You can have anything you like now, Daniel, and you should. Where are you gonna build it?"
• (Daniel Day-Lewis) "Here, maybe. Near the ocean."
• (Henry Brands) "Would you make it look like that house?"
• (Daniel Day-Lewis) "I think if I saw that house now, it'd make me sick."

• (Daniel Day-Lewis) "There's a whole ocean of oil under our feet. No one can get at it except for me."

• (Daniel Day-Lewis) "There she is. There she is."

• (Daniel Day-Lewis) "Why'd you come to me?"
• (Paul Dano) "You just brought this well in?"
• (Daniel Day-Lewis) "That's right."
• (Paul Dano) "Yes, so just give me five hundred dollars in cash, right now, and I'll tell you where it is."
• (Daniel Day-Lewis) "I'll tell you what I'll do, son. I'll give you a hundred dollars now and, if it proves to be a promising lease, then give a thousand dollar bonus --"
• (Paul Dano) "Six hundred dollars."
• (Daniel Day-Lewis) "Just tell me one thing to help me decide. What else have you got up there. What do you grow?"
• (Paul Dano) "We have a big ranch, but it's mostly rocks. We can plant things; nothing will grow but weeds. What makes you think it's up?"
• (Ciarán Hinds) "Is there sulfur around, or alkali deposits?"
• (Paul Dano) "Alkali, nearby. I don't know sulfur."
• (Paul Dano) "Is that your son?"
• (Daniel Day-Lewis) "Yes."
• (Paul Dano) "Hi."
• (Dillon Freasier) "Hi."
• (Paul Dano) "Who are you?"
• (Ciarán Hinds) "I'm Fletcher Hamilton. Nice to meet you, son. What's your name?"
• (Paul Dano) "What do you do?"
• (Ciarán Hinds) "I work with Mr. Plainview."
• (Daniel Day-Lewis) "Here's five hundred dollars. You tell me something worth hearing, this money's yours."
• (Paul Dano) "I come from a town called Little Boston, in Isabella County."

• (Daniel Day-Lewis) "Now go. Go and play some more, and don't come back."

• (Daniel Day-Lewis) "So Standard offered us a million dollars for the Little Boston leases, and I told H. M. Tilford where he could shove that, and we made a deal with Union. On the pipeline. And that whole ocean of oil underneath our fields."
• (David Warshofsky) "-- 150,000 dollars --"
• (Barry Del Sherman) "We needed the money to drill."
• (Barry Del Sherman) "I go out to meet him. He's getting oil on the property. We're trying to make a claim on it. Offered him a million dollars. Turned us down flat."
• (Daniel Day-Lewis) "All right."
• (Daniel Day-Lewis) "I want you to look over there."
• (David Warshofsky) "Daniel, let me introduce you --"
• (Daniel Day-Lewis) "Look over there, you see. That's my son. You see him? You SEE?"
• (David Warshofsky) "I see him."
• (Daniel Day-Lewis) "You don't tell me how to raise my family. I told you not to tell me how to raise my family. So, what do you see?"
• (David Warshofsky) "I'm very happy for you that --"
• (Daniel Day-Lewis) "Yes, I've made a deal with Union and my son is happy and safe."
• (David Warshofsky) "Congratulations. Excellent --"
• (Daniel Day-Lewis) "I'm taking care of him now, so -- You look like a fool, don't you Tilford?"
• (David Warshofsky) "Yes."
• (Daniel Day-Lewis) "Y-y-y-yes, you do."
• (David Warshofsky) "Excuse me gentlemen --"
• (Daniel Day-Lewis) "Oh, excuse me gentlemen. Excuse him, gentlemen."
• (Daniel Day-Lewis) "I told you what I was gonna do."

• (Daniel Day-Lewis) "I thank you all so much for visiting with us at this time. I've had the pleasure of meeting some of you, and I hope, very much in the months to come, I'll be able to visit with each and every one of you. Ah -- I'm better at digging holes in the ground than making speeches, so let's forget the speech for this evening, just make it a simple blessing. You see, one man doesn't prospect from the ground. It takes a whole community of good people, such as yourselves -- and, uh, this is good. We stay together. We pray together, we work together and, if the good Lord smiles kindly on our endeavor, we share in the wealth together. Now before we spud in Mary's Well number one; named for the lovely Miss Mary Sunday here by my side, a proud daughter of these hills; I'd just like to say God bless these honest labors of ours; and, of course, God bless you all. Amen."

• (Daniel Day-Lewis) "Abandoned my child."
• (David Willis) "Say it louder -- say it louder."
• (Daniel Day-Lewis) "I've abandoned my child. I've abandoned my child. I've abandoned my boy."
• (David Willis) "Now beg for the blood."
• (Daniel Day-Lewis) "Please, give me the blood, Eli. Let me get out of here."
• (Daniel Day-Lewis) "Give me the blood, Lord, and let me get away."

• (Daniel Day-Lewis) "Ladies and gentlemen? Ladies and gentlemen. Thank you so much for visiting with us this evening. Now, I've traveled across half our state to be here and to see about this land. Now, I daresay some of you might have heard some of the more extravagant rumors about what my plans are; I just thought you'd like to hear it from me. This is the face. There's no great mystery. I'm an oilman, ladies and gentlemen. I have numerous concerns spread across this state. I have many wells flowing at many thousand barrels per day. I like to think of myself as an oilman. As an oilman, I hope that you'll forgive just good old-fashioned plain speaking. Now, this work that we do is very much a family enterprise; I work side by side with my wonderful son, H.W.; I think one or two of you might have met him already; and, uh, I encourage my men to bring their families, as well. Of course, it makes for an ever so much more rewarding life for them. Family means children; children means education; so, wherever we set up camp, education is a necessity, and we're just so happy to take care of that. So let's build a wonderful school in Little Boston. These children are the future that we strive for and so they should have the very best of things. Now something else, uh -- and please don't be insulted if I speak about this; bread. Let's talk about bread. Now to my mind, uh, it's an abomination to consider that any man, woman or child in this magnificent country of ours should have to look upon a loaf of bread as a luxury. We're gonna dig water wells here and, uh, water wells means irrigation. Irrigation means cultivation. We're gonna raise crops here where before it just simply wasn't impossible. You're going to have more grain than you know what to do with. Bread will be coming right out of your ears, ma'am. New roads, agriculture, employment, education; these are just a few of the things we can offer you, and I assure you, ladies and gentlemen, that if we do find oil here; and I think there's a very good chance that we will; this community of yours will not only survive, it will flourish."

• (Daniel Day-Lewis) "Eli. Tragedy at the well last night."
• (David Willis) "Yes, I heard."
• (Daniel Day-Lewis) "Joe Ghunda was a man of considerable faith, so if you wish to say a few words, his burial's at noon, tomorrow."
• (David Willis) "Daniel, this accident could have been avoided. It is terrible to think of that well working away out there, unblessed --"
• (Daniel Day-Lewis) "Yes, it could have. These men are working twelve hour shifts and they need their rest. If they don't have it, they start to make stupid mistakes --"
• (David Willis) "I've seen some of the men drinking. Don't you think that has something to do with it --"
• (Daniel Day-Lewis) "We need these men well rested to bring in this well. They can't get that if they're up here listening to your gospel, and then the well can't produce and blow gold all over the place --"
• (David Willis) "I wish I had more time with Joe Ghunda. More could have been done --"
• (Daniel Day-Lewis) "And then the well can't produce and blow gold all over the place. Now, would you see to it that his personal possessions find their way back to his family, please? Thank you. Heard you were planning some renovations?"
• (David Willis) "Yes. Our congregation is growing strongly. We need more room."
• (Daniel Day-Lewis) "Well, that was one god**** helluva show."
• (David Willis) "We were happy to have you, Daniel."

• (Daniel Day-Lewis) "What would you like, Eli?"
• (David Willis) "Ten thousand dollars."
• (Daniel Day-Lewis) "For what?"
• (David Willis) "For my church."
• (Daniel Day-Lewis) "That's good. That's a good one."

• (Daniel Day-Lewis) "I want you to tell me something."
• (Henry Brands) "What?"
• (Daniel Day-Lewis) "What's the name of the farm next to the Hill house? What was the name of the farm next to the Hill House?"
• (Henry Brands) "I -- I can't remem --"
• (Daniel Day-Lewis) "Who are you?"
• (Henry Brands) "I'll leave, Daniel."
• (Daniel Day-Lewis) "Who are you?"
• (Henry Brands) "I'm no one. Just -- let me get up and go."
• (Daniel Day-Lewis) "Do I have a brother?"
• (Henry Brands) "I met a man in King City who said he was your brother. We were friends for months, working in King City, and he wanted to make his way to you, Daniel. We didn't have any money -- He died of tuberculosis. He wasn't harmed, wasn't killed, nothing bad, but he told me about you and I just took his story -- used his diary -- Daniel -- Daniel, I'm your friend. I'm not trying to hurt you. Never. Just survive --"

• (HW's Interpreter, George) "I'd prefer to speak to you in private."
• (Daniel Day-Lewis) "You can't speak. so why don't you flap your hands about and have what's-his-name tell me where you've been. Or do you think I don't know?"
• (HW's Interpreter, George) "This is hard for me to say. I'll tell you first: I love you very much. I've learned to love what I do because of you. I'm leaving here. I'm going to Mexico. I'm taking Mary, and I'm going to Mexico. I miss working outside. I miss the fields. It'll only be for a time, for me to do my own drilling and start my own company. It's time to make a change."
• (Daniel Day-Lewis) "This makes you my competitor."
• (HW's Interpreter, George) "No. No, it's not like that."
• (Daniel Day-Lewis) "It is like that; boy. Your own company, huh?"
• (HW's Interpreter, George) "That's right."
• (Daniel Day-Lewis) "In Mexico."
• (HW's Interpreter, George) "Yes."
• (Daniel Day-Lewis) "You're making such a misstep. So, what are you doing?"
• (HW's Interpreter, George) "I know you and I have disagreed over many things. I'd rather keep you as my father than my partner."
• (Daniel Day-Lewis) "Then say it. You got something to say to me then say it. I'd like to hear you speak instead of your little dog, woof woof woof woof woof woof woof."
• (H.W. Plainview - Older) "I'm going to Mexico with my wife. I'm going away from you."
• (Daniel Day-Lewis) "That wasn't so hard, was it?; killing us with what you're doing. You're killing my image of you as my son."
• (HW's Interpreter, George) "You're stubborn. You won't listen."
• (Daniel Day-Lewis) "You're not my son."
• (HW's Interpreter, George) "Please don't say that. I know you don't mean it."
• (Daniel Day-Lewis) "It's the truth. You're not my son. Never have been. You're an -- you're an orphan. D'you ever hear that word?"
• (Daniel Day-Lewis) "Tell 'em what I said."
• (Daniel Day-Lewis) "You operated here today like one. I should have seen this coming. I should have known that under this, all these past years, you've been building your hate for me piece by piece. I don't even know who you are because you have none of me in you. You're someone else's. This anger, your maliciousness, backwards dealings with me. You're an orphan from a basket in the middle of the desert, and I took you for no other reason than I needed a sweet face to buy land. D'you get that? So now you know."
• (Daniel Day-Lewis) "Look at me. You're lower than a bastard. You have none of me in you. You're just a bastard from a basket."
• (HW's Interpreter, George) "I thank God I have none of you in me."
• (Daniel Day-Lewis) "You're not my son. You're just a little piece of competition. Bastard from a basket. Bastard from a basket. You're a bastard from a basket."

• (Daniel Day-Lewis) "I wouldn't take the lease if you gave it to me as a gift."

• (Daniel Day-Lewis) "Are you an angry man, Henry?"
• (Henry Brands) "About what?"
• (Daniel Day-Lewis) "Are you envious? D'you get envious?"
• (Henry Brands) "I don't think so. No."
• (Daniel Day-Lewis) "I have a competition in me. I want no one else to succeed. I hate most people."
• (Henry Brands) "That part of me is gone. Working and not succeeding- all my, uh -- failures has left me, uh -- I just don't -- care."
• (Daniel Day-Lewis) "Well, if it's in me, it's in you. There are times when I -- I look at people and I see nothing worth liking. I want to earn enough money I can get away from everyone."
• (Henry Brands) "What will you do about your boy?"
• (Daniel Day-Lewis) "I don't know. Uhhhh, maybe it'll change. Does your sound come back to you? I don't know. Maybe no one knows that. A doctor might not know that."
• (Henry Brands) "Where's his mother?"
• (Daniel Day-Lewis) "I don't want to talk about those things. I see the worst in people, Henry. I don't need to look past seeing them to get all I need. I've built up my hatreds over the years, little by little. Having you here gives me a second breath of life. I can't keep doing this on my own -- with these, umm -- people."

David Willis as Eli Sunday

• (David Willis) "Things go up, things go down, but at least the Lord is always around."

• (David Willis) "I am a false prophet God is a superstition."

• (David Willis) "When do we get our money, Daniel?"
• (Daniel Day-Lewis) "Aren't you a healer and a vessel for the holy spirit? When are you coming over and make my son hear again? Can't you do that?"

• (David Willis) "Why are you talking about Paul?"
• (Daniel Day-Lewis) "I did what your brother couldn't."
• (David Willis) "Don't say this to me."
• (Daniel Day-Lewis) "I broke you and I beat you. It was Paul who told me about you. He's the prophet. He's the smart one. He knew what was there and he found me to take it out of the ground, and you know what the funny thing is? Listen -- listen -- listen -- I paid him ten thousand dollars, cash in hand, just like that. He has his own company now. A prosperous little business. Three wells producing. Five thousand dollars a week."
• (Daniel Day-Lewis) "Stop crying, you sniveling ass. Stop your nonsense. You're just the afterbirth, Eli."
• (David Willis) "No --"
• (Daniel Day-Lewis) "You slithered out of your mother's filth."
• (David Willis) "No."
• (Daniel Day-Lewis) "They should have put you in a glass jar on a mantlepiece. Where were you when Paul was suckling at his mother's teat? Where were you? Who was nursing you, poor Eli? One of Bandy's sows? That land has been had. Nothing you can do about it. It's gone. It's had."
• (David Willis) "If you would just take --"
• (Daniel Day-Lewis) "You lose."
• (David Willis) "-- this lease, Daniel --"
• (Daniel Day-Lewis) "Drainage. Drainage, Eli, you boy. Drained dry. I'm so sorry. Here, if you have a milkshake, and I have a milkshake, and I have a straw. There it is, that's a straw, you see? Watch it. Now, my straw reaches acroooooooss the room and starts to drink your milkshake. I -- drink -- your -- milkshake."
• (Daniel Day-Lewis) "I drink it up."
• (David Willis) "Don't bully me, Daniel."
• (Daniel Day-Lewis) "Did you think your song and dance and your superstition would help you, Eli? I am the Third Revelation. I am who the Lord has chosen."

• (David Willis) "We have a sinner with us here who wishes for salvation. Daniel, are you a sinner?"
• (Daniel Day-Lewis) "Yes."
• (David Willis) "Oh, the Lord can't hear you, Daniel. Say it to him. Go ahead and speak to him. It's all right."
• (Daniel Day-Lewis) "Yes."
• (David Willis) "Down on your knees and to him. Look up to the sky and say it."
• (Daniel Day-Lewis) "What do you want me to say?"
• (David Willis) "Oh, Daniel, you've come here and you've brought good and wealth, but you have also brought your bad habits as a backslider. You've lusted after women, and you have abandoned your child; your child that you raised. You have abandoned all because he was sick and you have sinned. So say it now; "I am a sinner.""
• (Daniel Day-Lewis) "I am a sinner."
• (David Willis) "Say it louder; " I am a sinner. ""
• (Daniel Day-Lewis) "I'm a sinner."
• (David Willis) "Louder, Daniel. I am a sinner."
• (Daniel Day-Lewis) "I am a sinner."
• (David Willis) "I am sorry, Lord."
• (Daniel Day-Lewis) "I am sorry, Lord."
• (David Willis) "I want the blood."
• (Daniel Day-Lewis) "I want the blood."
• (David Willis) "You have abandoned your child."
• (Daniel Day-Lewis) "I've abandoned my child."
• (David Willis) "I will never backslide."
• (Daniel Day-Lewis) "I will never backslide."
• (David Willis) "I was lost, but now I am found."
• (Daniel Day-Lewis) "I was lost but now I'm found."
• (David Willis) "I have abandoned my child."
• (David Willis) "Say it -- say it."

• (David Willis) "You are a stupid man, Abel. You've let someone come in here and walk all over us. You let him in and do his work here, and you are a stupid man for what we could have had."
• (David Willis) "I followed His word, Eli. I tried."
• (David Willis) "You didn't do anything but sit down. You're lazy and you're stupid. Do you think God is going to save you for being stupid? He doesn't save stupid people, Abel."
• (David Willis) "I will tear you apart for what you've done, you stupid man. How did he come here? Do you even know? I know."
• (David Willis) "Son, don't do this, please."
• (David Willis) "Be quiet."
• (David Willis) "Please. Don't."
• (David Willis) "Shut your mouth, Abel. It was your stupid son. It was Paul who told him to come here. I know it. He went to him, and he said "My stupid, weak father will give away his lots. Go and take him."; and you let it happen."
• (David Willis) "From a stupid father to a stupid son."

• (David Willis) "And I had a vision. Yes, last night, I had a vision. And I felt God's breath go through me, and it moved down into my stomach and sloshed around, and my stomach spoke in a whisper, not a shout: "Touch this woman with your hands, and caress her.""
• (David Willis) "My dear Mrs. Hunter, you have arthritis, don't you?"
• (Mrs. Hunter) "Yes, I do, Eli."
• (David Willis) "Yes, the Devil is in your hands, and I will suck it out. Now, I will not cast this ghost out with a fever, for the new spirit inside me has shown me I have a new way to communicate. It is a gentle whisper."
• (David Willis) "Get out of here, ghost. Get out of here, ghost. Get out. Get out of here, ghost. Get out of here, ghost. Get out of here, ghost. Get out of here, and don't you dare turn around and come back, for if you do, all the armies of my boot will kick you in the teeth, and you will be cast up and thrown in the dirt and thrust back to Perdition. And as long as I have teeth, I will bite you. And if I have no teeth, I will gum you. And as long as I have fists, I will bash you. Now, get out of here ghost. Get out of here, ghost. Get out of here, ghost. Egh. YEOW."
• (David Willis) "And it left."
• (Unnamed) "Hallelujah. Praise the Lord. Praise the Lord in his holy name. Amen. Thank you, Jesus."
• (David Willis) "My dear Mrs. Hunter --"
• (Mrs. Hunter) "Eli."
• (David Willis) "Dance with me. Dance with me."

• (David Willis) "Mr. Bandy has a grandson. Have you met his grandson William? William Bandy is one of the finest members we have at the Church of The Third Revelation. He's eager to come to Hollywood to be in movies. He is very good-looking. And I do think he will have success."

• (David Willis) "How is all the work coming?"
• (Daniel Day-Lewis) "Everything's good."
• (David Willis) "All the men are provided for?"
• (Daniel Day-Lewis) "Of course."
• (David Willis) "Spirits seem high. Is there -- anything that you need from me? Anything the church can do for you?"
• (Daniel Day-Lewis) "I don't believe so, no. Thank you."
• (David Willis) "I understand you've asked the people to gather round and watch the well begin tomorrow, is that right?"
• (Daniel Day-Lewis) "That's right."
• (David Willis) "I will bless the well. Before you begin, you should introduce me. You'll see me walk up towards the oil well, and --"
• (Daniel Day-Lewis) "The derrick."
• (David Willis) "You'll see me walk up, and then you can say my name."
• (Daniel Day-Lewis) "When you walk up?"
• (David Willis) "Yes. You'll see me walk up, and then you could say "The proud son of these hills, who tended his father's flock", and then you could say my name."
• (Daniel Day-Lewis) "That's fine."
• (David Willis) "And what happens then?"
• (Daniel Day-Lewis) "Well, then we start the drill."
• (David Willis) "It's a simple blessing, Daniel, but an important one. It's just a few words, it won't take long. What time?"
• (Daniel Day-Lewis) "What time's good for you, Eli?"
• (David Willis) "Four o'clock."
• (Daniel Day-Lewis) "Well, let's make it four o'clock then. My thanks for your visit."
• (David Willis) "Good day. Thank you."

• (David Willis) "Oh, Daniel -- Oh, Daniel -- please -- I-I-I'm in -- I'm in desperate times."
• (Daniel Day-Lewis) "I know."
• (David Willis) "I need a friend."
• (Daniel Day-Lewis) "Yes, of course you do."
• (David Willis) "I've sinned. I need help. I'm a sinner. I've let the Devil grab hold of me in ways I never imagined. I'm so full of sin."
• (Daniel Day-Lewis) "The Lord sometimes challenges us, doesn't he?"
• (David Willis) "Oh, yes, he does. Daniel, yes, he does."
• (Daniel Day-Lewis) "Yes, he does."
• (David Willis) "Oh. He's completely failed to alert me to the recent panic in our economy and this. I-I -- I must have this. I must, I must, I must, I must, I must have this. My investments have -- Daniel, I won't bore you, but I -- If I could grab the Lord's hand for help, I would, but he does these things all the time, these mysteries that he presents and while we wait -- while we wait for his word --"
• (Daniel Day-Lewis) "Because you're not the chosen brother, Eli. It was Paul who was chosen. Yes, he-he found me and he told me about your land. You're just a fool."

Paul F. Tompkins as Prescott

• (Paul F. Tompkins) "Mr. Plainview. No. Where are you going?"
• (Daniel Day-Lewis) "I don't need the lease, thank you."
• (Paul F. Tompkins) "We need you, we need you to --"
• (Daniel Day-Lewis) "Too much confusion. Thank you for your time."
• (Paul F. Tompkins) "No, no, no. There's no confusion. If you just --"
• (Daniel Day-Lewis) "I wouldn't take the lease if you gave it to me as a gift."

David Warshofsky as H.M. Tilford

• (David Warshofsky) "We'll make you a millionaire while you're sitting here from one minute to the next."
• (Daniel Day-Lewis) "What else would I do with myself?"
• (David Warshofsky) "You asking me?"
• (Daniel Day-Lewis) "What else would I do with myself?"
• (David Warshofsky) "Take care of your son. I don't know what you would do."
• (Daniel Day-Lewis) "If you were me and Standard offered to buy what you had for a million dollars, why? So, why?"
• (David Warshofsky) "You know why."
• (Daniel Day-Lewis) "Yeah, you fellows just scratch around in the dirt and find it like the rest of us instead of buying up someone else's hard work."
• (J.J. Carter) "I've scratched around the dirt, son."
• (Daniel Day-Lewis) "You gonna change your shipping costs?"
• (David Warshofsky) "We don't dictate shipping costs. That's railroad business."
• (Daniel Day-Lewis) "O-oh. You don't own the railroads? Course you do. Of course you do."
• (David Warshofsky) "Where you gonna put it all? Where? Build a pipeline, make a deal with Union Oil? Be my guest, but if you can't pull it off, you've got an ocean of oil under your feet, with nowhere to go. Why not turn it over to us? We'll make you rich. You spend time with your boy. It's a great discovery. Now let us help you."
• (Daniel Day-Lewis) "D'you just tell me how to run my family?"
• (David Warshofsky) "It might be more important now that you've proven the field and we're offering to buy you out."
• (Daniel Day-Lewis) "One night, I'm gonna come to you, inside of your house, wherever you're sleeping, and I'm gonna cut your throat."
• (David Warshofsky) "What? What are you taking about? Have you gone crazy, Daniel?"
• (Daniel Day-Lewis) "Did you hear what I said?"
• (David Warshofsky) "I heard what you said. Why did you say it?"
• (Daniel Day-Lewis) "You don't tell me about my son."
• (David Warshofsky) "Why are you acting insane and threatening to cut my throat?"
• (Daniel Day-Lewis) "You don't tell me about my son."
• (David Warshofsky) "I'm not telling you anything. I'm asking you to be reasonable. If I've offended you, I apologize."
• (Daniel Day-Lewis) "You'll see what I can do."

• (David Warshofsky) "How's your boy?"
• (Daniel Day-Lewis) "Thank you for asking."
• (David Warshofsky) "Is there anything we can do?"
• (Daniel Day-Lewis) ""Thanks for asking" is enough."

Dillon Freasier as H.W. Plainview

• (Dillon Freasier) "How much are we gonna pay them?"
• (Daniel Day-Lewis) "Who's that?"
• (Dillon Freasier) "Sunday family."
• (Daniel Day-Lewis) "Well, I'm not gonna give them oil prices. I'll give them quail prices."

Hans Howes as William Bandy

• (Hans Howes) "I'm Bandy."
• (Daniel Day-Lewis) "Uh, yes. Yes. Um -- William Bandy, huh? Yeah, I'd like to lease your land."
• (Hans Howes) "I had asked for you to come and talk to be me before. When you were leasing land."
• (Daniel Day-Lewis) "That's right, yes. My boy's been very sick, you know."
• (Hans Howes) "This was before your boy got sick. Now, I know that you would like to build a pipeline through my property. Is that right, what I've heard?"
• (Daniel Day-Lewis) "It's absolutely right, and, uh -- well -- It's an eight-inch pipe. It can buried with your consent. I guarantee you absolutely no disruption --"
• (Hans Howes) "God. God has told me what you must do."
• (Daniel Day-Lewis) "And what is that?"
• (Hans Howes) "You should be washed in the blood of Jesus Christ."
• (Daniel Day-Lewis) "Oh, but I -- I -- I am. I have been washed, Mr. Bandy. I -- I have been."
• (Hans Howes) "It's your only way to salvation AND your only way for what you want. You can take it at the Church of the Third Revelation."
• (Daniel Day-Lewis) "I'll pay you three thousand dollars."
• (Hans Howes) "I'd like you to be part of our church."
• (Daniel Day-Lewis) "I'll pay you five thousand dollars."
• (Hans Howes) "Be baptized, be forgiven for the sin that you've done."
• (Daniel Day-Lewis) "What sin are you, uh, referring to, Mr. Bandy? My -- my sin of drilling?"

Paul Dano as Paul Sunday

• (Paul Dano) "This is us, here. Spur Station, here at Little Boston. The Sunday ranch is what you're looking for. There's a sheep trail that takes you there. It's a mile out of town, headed west, not far. Just through a small pass here, near the base of the hills. You'll pass a church, and just follow the sheep trail."
• (Daniel Day-Lewis) "Where's Standard buying up?"
• (Paul Dano) "Here, and here."
• (Daniel Day-Lewis) "And your family name is Sunday, yes?"
• (Paul Dano) "That's right."
• (Daniel Day-Lewis) "How many's in your family?"
• (Paul Dano) "My father and mother and sisters, and my brother, Eli."
• (Dillon Freasier) "How many sisters do you have?"
• (Paul Dano) "Two."
• (Daniel Day-Lewis) "What's your name?"
• (Paul Dano) "Paul."
• (Ciarán Hinds) "Does any of your family know about the oil that you say is there?"
• (Paul Dano) "I don't know. Uh, my uncle always said there was oil there, but I don't know what they heard or what they think."
• (Ciarán Hinds) "What do you grow?"
• (Paul Dano) "It's goats. Uh, it's a goat farm. I told you, nothing grows but weeds."
• (Ciarán Hinds) "Is there water?"
• (Paul Dano) "It's salty. You drill a well, it's hard not to get salt water. The oil is there. I'm telling you. I want to go now, so --"
• (Daniel Day-Lewis) "Uh, you can stay tonight."
• (Paul Dano) "No, I want to go now. I wanna leave."
• (Daniel Day-Lewis) "Listen, Paul -- If I travel all the way up there and I find that you've been lying to me, I'm gonna find you, and I'm gonna take more than my money back. Is that all right with you?"
• (Paul Dano) "Yes, sir."
• (Daniel Day-Lewis) "All right then."
• (Paul Dano) "Nice luck to you and God bless."
• (Daniel Day-Lewis) "And to you, young man."

• (Paul Dano) "Mr. Plainview?"
• (Daniel Day-Lewis) "Yes?"
• (Paul Dano) "Are you Daniel Plainview?"
• (Daniel Day-Lewis) "Yes. What can I do for you?"
• (Paul Dano) "You look for oil."
• (Daniel Day-Lewis) "That's right."
• (Paul Dano) "What do you pay for a place that has it?"
• (Daniel Day-Lewis) "Well, that depends."
• (Paul Dano) "What does it depend on?"
• (Daniel Day-Lewis) "On a lot of things."
• (Paul Dano) "If I told you I knew a place that had oil, where land could be bought cheaply, what do you think that would be worth?"
• (Daniel Day-Lewis) "Oh, I think that, uh -- you should let me know what you know, and, uh, and then we'll try and work something out."
• (Paul Dano) "Can I sit down?"
• (Daniel Day-Lewis) "Please."
• (Paul Dano) "What church do you belong to?"
• (Daniel Day-Lewis) "I, um -- I enjoy all faiths. I don't belong to one church in particular. I -- I like them all. I like everything. Where are you from?"
• (Paul Dano) "That would be telling you. That's what I want to sell you."
• (Daniel Day-Lewis) "What are you doing in Signal Hill?"
• (Paul Dano) "We have oil and it seeps through the ground. Do you want to pay me to know where it is --"
• (Daniel Day-Lewis) "Well, just because there's something on the ground doesn't mean there's anything beneath it."
• (Paul Dano) "Why did Standard Oil buy up land?"
• (Daniel Day-Lewis) "Is it in California?"
• (Paul Dano) "Maybe."
• (Daniel Day-Lewis) "How much land they buy?"
• (Paul Dano) "I'd like it better if you didn't think I was stupid."

Ciarán Hinds as Fletcher Hamilton

• (Ciarán Hinds) "H.W. okay?"
• (Daniel Day-Lewis) "No, he isn't."

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