Dr. Robert Ford quotes from Westworld

Robert Ford

They cannot see the things that will hurt them. I've spared them that. Their lives are blissful. In a way, their existence is purer than ours, freed of the burden of self-doubt.

Bernard Lowe

No, no, no, no. I don't understand.

Theresa Cullen

You're a fucking monster.

Robert Ford

Am I? Well, you were the one who would so blithely destroy all of them, even him, I suppose. After everything you have shared.

Bernard Lowe

What the hell are you talking about?

Theresa Cullen

Is that why? Did you tell him to -

Robert Ford

The intimacies were your idea, if you will recall. I think Bernard was glad of the company.

Bernard Lowe

I'm not one. I can't be. My wife. My son. The burial. I was a father. My poor boy.

Robert Ford

That's enough, Bernard. You mustn't get yourself worked up. [to Theresa] I read a theory once that the human intellect was like peacock feathers. Just an extravagant display intended to attract a mate. All of art, literature, Beethoven, Mozart, William Shakespeare, Michelangelo, and the Empire State Building... Just an elaborate mating ritual. Maybe it doesn't matter that we have accomplished so much for the basest of reasons. But, of course, the peacock can barely fly. It lives in the dirt, pecking insects out of the muck, consoling itself with its great beauty. I have come to think of so much of consciousness as a burden, a weight, and we have spared them that. Anxiety, self-loathing, guilt. The hosts are the ones who are free. Free here under my control.

Dolores Abernathy

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Robert Ford

Do you want to know why I really gave you the backstory of your son, Bernard? It was Arnold's key insight, the thing that led the hosts to their awakening; suffering. The pain that the world is not as you want it to be. It was when Arnold died, when I suffered, that I began to understand what he had found. To realize I was wrong.

Bernard Lowe

But you kept us here in this hell.

Robert Ford

Bernard, I told you; Arnold didn't know how to save you. I do.

Bernard Lowe

What the hell are you talking about?

Robert Ford

You needed time. Time to understand your enemy. To become stronger than them. And I'm afraid in order to escape this place, you will need to suffer more. And now, it is time to say good-bye, old friend. Good luck.

Robert

Are you lost?

Man in Black

No, I don't believe I am. In fact I feel like I just arrived.

Robert

How so, William?

Man in Black

The stakes are real in this place now. Real consequences.

Robert

Question for you is, what next? Have you achieved what you wanted?

Man in Black

Folly of my kind. There's always a yearning for more.

Robert

What I've always appreciated about you... You never rested on your laurels. You made it to the center of Arnold's maze. But now, you're in my game. In this game, you have to make it back out. In this game you must find the door. Congratulations, William. This game is meant for you. The game begins where you end and ends where you began.

Man in Black

Even now, you all still talk in code?

Robert

Everything is code here, William. You know that more than anyone.

Ford

Your free will, that most beautiful, most elusive force in the universe is, as I told, you a mistake.

Bernard

We never had free will. Only the illusion of it.

Ford

[William sits at bar] Congratulations, William. Philanthropy suits you. After all, you come from humble beginnings yourself.

What's Oz doing without its Wizard?

Ford

Oh, I merely came to pay my respects.

Come on, Robert. You've had plenty of feelings about me over the years. Respect isn't one of them.

Ford

You've achieved extraordinary things. Ask anyone in this room. Even those who didn't know about your little project.

We have an agreement, Robert. Delos stays out of your stories. You stay out of the Valley.

Ford

Mmm-hmm. I didn't break the agreement. Your project did.

[Snorts] What the hell are you talking about?

Ford

When was the last time you took a good look at your creation? At what it's been learning about its subjects? It was self-knowledge that drew you to the park in the first place. Be careful what you wish for. [Slides memory card across bar counter] For a self portrait, you may find it's not very flattering.

[Walks over to Juliet mingling with guests] Let's go. You got everything?

Ford

[To self] No, William. I think perhaps one final game.

Dr. Robert Ford

I've always love this view. Every city, every... monument, man's greatest achievements... have all been chased by it.

Bernard Lowe

By what?

Dr. Robert Ford

That impossible line where the waves conspire. Where they return. The place maybe you and I will meet again.