The Next Three Days Quotes

John Brennan: So, the life in times of Don Quixote, what is it about?
Female College Student: That someone's belief in virtue is more important than virtue itself?
John Brennan: Yes... that's in the there. But what is it about? Could it be how rational thought destroys your soul? Could it be about the triumph of irrationality and the power that is in

that? You know, we spend a lot of time trying to organize the world. We build clocks and calendars and we try to predict the weather. But what part of our life is truly under our control? What if we choose to exist purely in a reality of our own making? Does that render us insane? And if it does, isn't that better than a life of despair?

Damon Pennington: But before you do anything, you have to ask yourself if you can do it. Can you forget about ever seeing your parents again? Can you kill a guard? Leave your kid at a gas station? Push some nice old lady to the ground just because she gets between you and the door? Because to do this thing, that's who you have to become. And if you can't, don't start, 'cause

you'll just get someone killed.
John Brennan: How did you get caught?
Damon Pennington: I gave myself up. I couldn't take wondering when someone was gonna come through the bedroom door.

Damon Pennington: No prison in the world is airtight. Each one has a key. You just have to find it.
John Brennan: How do you do that?
Damon Pennington: A lot of looking. Especially at things that break up the daily routine. Guards get comfortable doing the same thing day in, day out. Something happens, that's when they make mistakes.

But when you see it, you have to be ready. You have to have the entire plan already in place even before you know how you're gonna get out of jail. Escaping's easy. The hardest part is staying free.

Damon Pennington: From the time they make the call, the police can have the center of the city sealed tight in fifteen minutes.
John Brennan: How can they be so exact?
Damon Pennington: After 9/11, Homeland Security made every city have a lockdown plan. Downtown Pittsburgh, Philly, Boston, Minneapolis, fifteen minutes. They can do

D.C. in under ten. Within 35 minutes, they can have cops at every tollboth on the interstate and be running rolling stops on the secondary roads. They won't have your photograph yet, but they will have your description.
John Brennan: What if you can't get out? 35 minutes is not a lot of time.
Damon Pennington: Then surrender. Because they will shoot

you on sight, along with anyone else you're with.

Erit: Don't apologize, it's genetics. Women are always competing with each other. That's why you're having problems with your boss.
Lara Brennan: Because she's a woman...
Erit: Exactly. Women should work under men, men under women. That's it.
John Brennan: What about men under men?

Erit: That's fine too, I mean they can deal with it.

Mike: You were supposed to leave.
John Brennan: I need them.
Mike: You notice that guy was a cop?
John Brennan: Which guy?
Mike: The one with the red light in his back window.
[John feels ridiculous. Mike hands him the documents]
Mike: Just give me the

money.
[John hands him the envelope of money. Mike checks it]
Mike: You want this too much. You're going to fuck it up.
[Mike speeds off. The second rider gives John a look and follows. John looks over the passports with their new names]

Lieutenant Nabulsi: Go wider... Send their photos to every train station... bus station... and airports in a 300 mile radius
Detective Collero: So Ohio... Maryland... West Virginia... New York... New Jersey... Virginia... Michigan... Kentucky... and Indiana
[Nabulsi gives Collero a dumb look]
Lieutenant Nabulsi: You know what

direction they're going in... smart ass

Lara Brennan: You took the wrong turn. John, the zoo's behind us. You took the wrong turn. Babe, what are you doing?
John Brennan: She'll call my parents.
Lara Brennan: What?
John Brennan: They'll look after him, and I'll figure out a way of getting him to us.
Lara Brennan: Are you out

of your mind?
John Brennan: I tried! There's no more time. Any second now, there's gonna be a roadblock ahead of us. It might be there now. If we don't get out now, we don't get out. I'll find a way of getting him to us, all right? I'll find a way.

Damon Pennington: You have to know where you're gonna go and how you're gonna get there. You have to know how they plan to catch you, where and when.
John Brennan: Well, how the hell are you supposed to know that?
Damon Pennington: You pay off someone who knows. And a lot depends on if the prison is in the country or the city.

John Brennan: City.
Damon Pennington: Where are you from?
John Brennan: Pittsburgh.
Damon Pennington: Pittsburgh's tough. So many bridges and tunnels they can block off.