Trevor Goodchild quotes from Æon Flux

Trevor Goodchild

The dream to awaken our world!

You're out of control.

Trevor Goodchild

I take control. Whose side are you on?

I take no side.

Trevor Goodchild

You're skating the edge.

I am the edge.

Trevor Goodchild

What you truly want, only I can give.

You can't give it, can't even buy it, and you just don't get it.

Many people hate you and would like to see you dead. How does that make you feel?

Trevor Goodchild

Those people should get to know me a little better. Then they'd know I don't indulge in feelings.

Trevor Goodchild

Tell me your heart's desire – one wish and it's yours.

Anything?

Trevor Goodchild

Just no heads on the plates. I'm going to go get a drink. Would you like one?

No, thank you.

Trevor Goodchild

Right . . . that would have been it you know.

Trevor Goodchild

Well, moderation in all things.

Moderation is NOT abstinence. Moderation necessarily connotes use.

Trevor Goodchild

Use?

So use me, Trevor. You must.

Trevor Goodchild

I have no choice.

Trevor Goodchild

My work offends you – why? Human beings are not so unique. Just a random arrangement of amino acids.

Suits me.

Trevor Goodchild

Yes it does.

These people you're copying are already superfluous. You're trafficking in excess.

Trevor Goodchild

The issue is not excess but access. Others take away reproductive rights; I grant them.

Tell the little witches to piss off!

Trevor Goodchild

Piss off, little witches.

You're psychotic. You no longer have a common conscience with your fellow man.

Trevor Goodchild

I never did. You see, I understand the will to evil. The will to evil is like an iron in the forge. There is only one way to shape it [right] – with a conscience that is the fire. My children, Judy, Bambara, it was for them I created the Custodian; an artificial conscience, a fire for those that had none!

But you lost the substance. You lost the substance by grasping at the shadow.

Trevor Goodchild

You wish to know if you have been implanted. You wish to confirm your autonomy of will.

Yes.

Trevor Goodchild

You would also like to leave this place alive. Yes?

Yes.

Trevor Goodchild

You shot Rubio and not me! Now why is that?

Trevor, don't trouble me with your thin smile.

Trevor Goodchild

Stop! There's a pain in my back!

Can you describe it in words?

Trevor Goodchild

What?

I want you to tell me about the pain.

Trevor Goodchild

Sharp, stabbing, piercing!

You're telling me nothing.

Trevor Goodchild

It feels like a nail, twisting into my spine!

Yes. But there is no nail—

Trevor Goodchild

No.

—so there is no pain.

The only reason I don't shoot you has nothing to do with duty or principle. It's simply a matter of knowing who I am.

Trevor Goodchild

Is that why you won't let it see you, why you can't bear the gaze? Because you've done terrible things. Then there are the transgressions you never even knew you committed, those are the worst! Because those you can never forget, all you can do is suspect.

I'm not in the habit of arguing over the color of red herrings.