Primer (film) Quotes

Primer (film) is a TV program that appeared on TV in 1970 . Primer completed its run in 1970.

It features Shane Carruth as producer, and Shane Carruth in charge of musical score.

Primer (film) is recorded in English and originally aired in United States. Each episode of Primer (film) is 77 minutes long. Primer (film) is distributed by THINKFilm; IFC Films.

The cast includes: Shane Carruth as Aaron, David Sullivan as Abe, Casey Gooden as Robert, and Carrie Crawford as Kara.

Primer (film) Quotes

David Sullivan as Abe

• (David Sullivan) "I just want you to see it the way I saw it."
• (Shane Carruth) "I am trying, okay, I really am here."
• (David Sullivan) "Look, everything we're putting into that box becomes ungrounded, and I don't mean grounded like to the earth, I mean, not tethered. I mean, we're blocking whatever keeps it moving forward and so they flip-flop. Inside the box it's like a street, both ends are cul-de-sacs. I mean, this isn't frame dragging or wormhole magic this is basic mechanics and heat 101."
• (Shane Carruth) "This is not mechanics and heat."

• (David Sullivan) "Okay, so what is it?"
• (Clean Room Technician) "Protein buildup."
• (David Sullivan) "Okay. Can you just tell him?"
• (Clean Room Technician) "Protein buildup."
• (David Sullivan) "But what kind?"
• (Clean Room Technician) "Some fungus;"
• (Clean Room Technician) "Some fungus."

• (David Sullivan) "I'm not into the whole "destiny, there's-only-one-right-way" thing."
• (Shane Carruth) "Abe, I'm not either, but what's worse? You know, thinking you're being paranoid or knowing you should be?"

• (David Sullivan) "You know, I've never considered myself claustrophobic -- but I started sweating and I, I couldn't find the right flow rate on the tank -- and I was breathing a lot differently than I was when I was testing it on the outside. Eventually, I settled down, and -- I don't know, maybe, maybe it was the Dramamine kicking in, but I remember this moment in there, in the dark with the reverberation of the machine. It was maybe the most content I've ever been."

• (David Sullivan) "Do you have anything important going on at work today?"
• (Shane Carruth) "I hope you're not implying that any day is unimportant at Cortex Semi."

• (David Sullivan) "It is weird, though."
• (Shane Carruth) "You wanna see something even weirder?"
• (Shane Carruth) "Okay, let's go over this again. Two batteries, right? 24 volts? What are we pulling out of this one? Just for fun."
• (David Sullivan) "Twelve volts."
• (Shane Carruth) "How about this one?"
• (David Sullivan) "This would be -- twelve volts."
• (Shane Carruth) "So what the hell is this thing?"
• (David Sullivan) "It doesn't stay like that."
• (Shane Carruth) "No, I mean, it winds down in a few minutes."
• (Shane Carruth) "What does that?"

• (David Sullivan) "I'm just saying, why would they put it in there if you didn't need it?"
• (Shane Carruth) "All right, one catalytic converter. It's fine. It's fine. Just remember to put it back, okay? Your emissions went up like 300 percent."
• (David Sullivan) "Is there enough in here?"
• (Shane Carruth) "Yeah, it should be. If not, we'll pull the one out of my truck."

• (David Sullivan) "What'd you do to this thing?"
• (Shane Carruth) "Huh? What?"
• (David Sullivan) "It looks like a dog digested it."

• (David Sullivan) "Did you notice those? When you were controlling the feeds, did you notice the parabolic? Hey, it's important. Parabolas are important. Here, look at this."
• (Shane Carruth) "I don't know, Abe."
• (David Sullivan) "Now, I'm gonna start it up and let it run for sixty seconds with, with nothing in it, okay, it's empty this time."
• (Shane Carruth) "That's twenty-two."
• (David Sullivan) "In all the equations that describe motion and heat --"
• (Shane Carruth) "Now, just one minute, just a second --"
• (David Sullivan) "-- in all the Feynman diagrams, what's the one variable that you can turn into negative and still get rational answers from?"
• (Shane Carruth) "That's one minute out here --"
• (David Sullivan) "It's not mass, it's not --"
• (Shane Carruth) "Twenty-two hours --"
• (David Sullivan) "It's about twenty-two hundred."
• (Shane Carruth) "-- twenty-two minutes in the box."
• (David Sullivan) "It's an odd, it's an odd number."
• (Shane Carruth) "How many minutes is it? That's thirteen hundred, forty-seven minutes."
• (David Sullivan) "Okay, yeah, thirteen forty-seven, you got that fast."
• (Shane Carruth) "How; Why is it odd? How did you know it was odd?"
• (David Sullivan) "Because this is it, okay? This is what's going on --"

• (David Sullivan) "Look, nobody's saying it wouldn't be fun. It's just, the time for jacking around with Tesla coils and ball lightning in the garage is over. I mean, maybe this is something you can try on your own, on your free time, you know?"
• (Casey Gooden) "My free time? Which free time? Free time after the fifty hours a week at work, after the thirty hours I spend working nights in the garage?"
• (David Sullivan) "We're all working the same schedule. We're all working the same schedule. I know."
• (Casey Gooden) "And, and it's not a Tesla coil."
• (Casey Gooden) "I guess I could shave a couple minutes off my day by eating on the toilet."

• (David Sullivan) "Aaron, I can imagine no way in which this thing could be considered anywhere remotely close to safe. All I know is I spent six hours in there and I'm still alive -- You still want to do it?"

• (David Sullivan) "What's wrong with our hands?"
• (Shane Carruth) "What do you mean?"
• (David Sullivan) "Why can't we write like normal people?"
• (Shane Carruth) "I don't know. I can see the letters -- I know what they should look like, I just can't get my hand to make them easily."
• (David Sullivan) "Try comparing it to your left hand."
• (Shane Carruth) "It's almost the same."

• (David Sullivan) "If you ditch work this afternoon, and promise to do the few small things I ask you; I will in return show you the most important thing that any living organism has ever witnessed."

Shane Carruth as Aaron

• (Shane Carruth) "The permutations were endless. They tried again going to the source, but even while keeping them separated from Abe by two rooms, Thomas Granger's condition could only be described as vegetative. From this, they deduced that the problem was recursive; but, beyond that, found themselves admitting, against their own nature, and once again, that the answer was unknowable. The question should have been what to do with the comatose man in the guest bedroom, but in Abe's mind, he was already compiling the list."

• (Shane Carruth) "What, what he's saying is --"
• (David Sullivan) "What I'm saying is, we drop the box down on it, okay, focus our own magnetic field to negate and knock out the inverse; what's going on inside the ceramic; and that should change the transition temperature to something we can work with."
• (Shane Carruth) "What are we saying that is?"
• (David Sullivan) "Hopefully, near room temperature."
• (Shane Carruth) "What is that about, uh, the best mathematician's a lazy one?"

• (Shane Carruth) "God, everything is so different in there. You feel how cut off you are, you know? It's this entirely separate world, and you encompass most of it. And the sound -- Isn't the sound different, on the inside? It's, it's like it's singing. I guess you can't hear it on the outside. I had this dream in there."
• (David Sullivan) "About what?"
• (Shane Carruth) "I was on, or near, the ocean and, uh, I just kept hearing the surf. It was so uneventful, at night, when the tide kept coming in and out."
• (David Sullivan) "Yeah."
• (Shane Carruth) "Yeah."

• (Shane Carruth) "It's not a matter of trust, it's just --"

• (Shane Carruth) "I don't know. I'll tell 'em something. I'll tell 'em we're spraying for bugs or something. It should just be a day or two, anyways."
• (Shane Carruth) "I mean, unless you want to bring 'em in."
• (David Sullivan) "No, it's just, I mean, they have their work in there, too."
• (Shane Carruth) "You know if Phillip finds out about that or even sees it, he's going to have to take it apart."
• (David Sullivan) "No, I --"
• (Shane Carruth) "You know I'm just putting a love tweak on it."
• (David Sullivan) "Yeah, I know. No, you're right."
• (Shane Carruth) "Abe, it's my garage, okay? It's not like they're paying rent."

• (Shane Carruth) "Look, Abe, look, I'm not going to pretend like I know anything, okay, about paradoxes, you know, or what follows them. And, honestly, I really don't believe in any of that group anyway, you know, kill your mom before you're born, whatever. It must work itself out, somehow."

• (Shane Carruth) "Look, I know that things are bad, okay? I know that you don't agree with what I've done, I know that you're upset and to be honest I'm not too happy with you either right now. But you know that this is gonna pass. So let's just go, let's get out there, let's go somewhere where we don't speak the language."

• (Shane Carruth) "Do you feel like a steak?"
• (Shane Carruth) "To eat?"

• (Shane Carruth) "What do they do?"
• (David Sullivan) "What do you mean?"
• (Shane Carruth) "What does it, what does this company do? Do they make things or --"
• (David Sullivan) "I don't know. It doesn't matter. All that matters is that the price goes up. You know, and the volume is so high that the number of shares we're trading is not going to affect the price."
• (Shane Carruth) "You really don't know what they do?"
• (Shane Carruth) "That's why you were talking about a mid-cap fund, so the volume'd be high enough to hide us."
• (David Sullivan) "Yeah, yeah. Do you think that's too cautious?"
• (Shane Carruth) "I don't know. I know there's a lot of stocks out there that do a lot more than double, but this is my first day."

• (Shane Carruth) "Aaron:"
• (Shane Carruth) "Two milligrams of oral triazolam every seven hours induces a safe sleep state and a minimal metabolic rate. At this continued state of rest, the human body breathes.3 litres of oxygen a minute, or roughly 2000 litres in four days. A Class E oxygen tank holds 625 litres. To maintain hydration, the body cycles through a minimum of two-and-a-half litres of water per day. Any food would be a luxury, but the small tank of medical-grade nitrous oxide would be needed on the other side."

• (Shane Carruth) "Now I have repaid any debt I may have owed you. You know all that I know. My voice is the only proof that you will have of the truth of any of this. I might have written a letter with my signature, but my handwriting is not what it used to be. Maybe you've had the presence of mind to record this. That's your prerogative. You will not be contacted by me again. And if you look -- you will not find me."

• (Shane Carruth) "And there was value in the thing, clearly, that they were certain of. But what is the application? In a matter of hours, they had given it into everything from mass transit to satellite launching, imagining devices the size of jumbo jets. Everything would be cheaper. It was practical, and they knew it. But above all that, beyond the positives, they knew that the easiest way to be exploited is to sell something they did not yet understand. So they kept quiet."

• (Shane Carruth) "You want to put my camcorder inside the box that's so dangerous we can't look into it."
• (Shane Carruth) "If something happens, would you pay me back?"
• (David Sullivan) "So we have a slightly negative pressure in the box. So we're ready for the argon."
• (Shane Carruth) "Wait, which one is that?"
• (David Sullivan) "It's the blue one."
• (Shane Carruth) "The blue one."
• (David Sullivan) "I weighed it at 77 grams. I set the scale to decagrams, though. I'm showing 7. 7 decagrams. Ready for.05 liters of argon."
• (David Sullivan) "Ready?"
• (Shane Carruth) "Just the plate first, right?"
• (David Sullivan) "Right, first just the plate, and then we'll --"
• (David Sullivan) "Okay. Let's just give it a second."
• (Shane Carruth) "You want to do the box now?"
• (David Sullivan) "Yeah. Okay, let's go through the checklist, and; Aaron, hold on a second. Let's make sure everything's set up right. Hold on, Aaron. Wait. Just wait. Okay."
• (Shane Carruth) "Anything? Is this normal?"
• (David Sullivan) "I don't know."
• (Shane Carruth) "I'm turning it off."
• (David Sullivan) "Wait. No."
• (Shane Carruth) "It's my camera, we don't have enough money --"
• (Shane Carruth) "Okay, I didn't do that."
• (David Sullivan) "Did we blow something?"

• (Shane Carruth) "You know that story, about how NASA spent millions of dollars developing this pen that writes in Zero G? Did you ever read that?"
• (David Sullivan) "Yeah."
• (Shane Carruth) "You know how the Russians solved the problem?"
• (David Sullivan) "Yeah, they used a pencil."
• (Shane Carruth) "Right. A normal wooden pencil. It just seems like Philip takes the NASA route almost every time."

• (Shane Carruth) "That is no static shock."

• (Shane Carruth) "Here's what's going to happen. I'm gonna read this, and you're gonna listen, and you're gonna stay on the line. And you're not gonna interrupt, and you're not gonna speak for any reason. Some of this you know. I'm gonna start at the top of the page."
• (Shane Carruth) "Meticulous, yes. Methodical, educated; they were these things. Nothing extreme. Like anyone, they varied. There were days of mistakes and laziness and in-fighting, and there were days, good days, when by anyone's judgment they would have to be considered clever. No one would say that what they were doing was complicated. It wouldn't even be considered new, except for maybe in the geological sense. They took from their surroundings what was needed and made of it something more."

• (Shane Carruth) "I think my body's getting used to these 36-hour days."

• (Shane Carruth) "They took from their surroundings what was needed -- and made of it something more."

• (Shane Carruth) "I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I forgot it was in my pocket."
• (David Sullivan) "It's Kara."
• (Shane Carruth) "Yeah."
• (David Sullivan) "How, how do cell phones work? If, if there's two duplicate phones and I call the same number, do they both ring at the same time, or is there --"
• (Shane Carruth) "That's not how it works."
• (David Sullivan) "Yes, it's a radio signal, so it --"
• (Shane Carruth) "No, it's a network. The network, the network checks each area. When it finds a phone, it stops ringing. It only, it rings the first one."
• (David Sullivan) "This, this one's ringing."
• (Shane Carruth) "Right."
• (David Sullivan) "So, the one your double has in Russellfield can't be --"
• (Shane Carruth) "Right. I think we broke symmetry."
• (David Sullivan) "Are you sure that's how cell phones work?"
• (Shane Carruth) "No."

• (Shane Carruth) "We know everything, okay? We're prescient."

Carrie Crawford as Kara

• (Carrie Crawford) "Did you call pest control?"
• (Shane Carruth) "Babe, they're birds. You don't want a bunch of dead baby birds up there, do you?"
• (Carrie Crawford) "They don't sound like birds."
• (Shane Carruth) "She thinks there are rats in the attic."

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