Three Days of the Condor (1975)
Max von Sydow: Joubert
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Quotes
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[after Joubert unexpectedly kills someone]
Joe Turner : Why?
Joubert : I don't interest myself in "why". I think more often in terms of "when", sometimes "where"; always "how much".
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Joe Turner : I'd like to go back to New York.
Joubert : You have not much future there. It will happen this way. You may be walking. Maybe the first sunny day of the spring. And a car will slow beside you, and a door will open, and someone you know, maybe even trust, will get out of the car. And he will smile, a becoming smile. But he will leave open the door of the car and offer to give you a lift.
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Joubert : Well, the fact is, what I do is not a bad occupation. Someone is always willing to pay.
Joe Turner : I would find it... tiring.
Joubert : Oh, no - it's quite restful. It's almost peaceful. No need to believe in either side, or any side. There is no cause. There's only yourself. The belief is in your own precision.
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Joubert : [offering Turner a gun] For that day.
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Joubert : Condor is an amateur. He's lost, unpredictable, perhaps even sentimental. He could fool a professional. Not deliberately, but precisely because he is lost, doesn't know what to do. Unlike Wicks, who has always been entirely predictable.
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Joubert : [answering phone] Yes?
Joe Turner : I'm doing a survey... do you believe the Condor is really an endangered species?
[hangs up]
