The Best James Delos Quotes

James: What do you think, William? Was this the inevitable end? Are you just a passenger? Did your life just happen to you? Or did you choose it?
Man: If you can't tell... If you can't tell, does it matter? I know what I have to do.

James: My fuckup of a son invested in this place because he believed in the future. I'm not interested in the future. I'm not interested in fantasies. I'm interested in reality.
William: I think in 20 years this will be the only reality that matters.
James: Maybe so, but I'll be long gone by then. Meanwhile, I don't wanna underwrite some fuckin' investment banker's voyage of self-discovery. That's not a business.
William: You're right. This place is a fantasy. Nothing here is real. Except one thing: The guests. Half of your marketing budget goes to trying to figure out what people want. Because they don't know. But here, they're free. Nobody's watching. Nobody's judging. At least that's what we tell them. This is the only place in the world where you get to see people for who they really are. And if you don't see the business in that, then you're not the businessman that I thought you were.

- Stop shaking!
- What are we looking for, Dolores?
- Something underneath this.
- The system itself.
James: [Whispering]
- I'm not going to, I promise.
- Run. Save yourself.
- Save yourself, run. Run now.

- I needed to know why they make the decisions they make.
- And the longer I looked for an answer, the more I realized
James: The way I can get them.
- They don't.
James: I'll do anything now.

James: They said there were two fathers; One above, one below. They lied, there was only ever, the devil. And when you look up from the bottom, it was just his reflection... laughing back down at you.

- This was how it was always gonna turn out.
James: What do you think, William?
- Was this the inevitable end?
- Are you just a passenger?
- Did your life just happen to you?
- Or did you choose it?