Frankenweenie (2012)

Martin Landau: Mr. Rzykruski

Quotes 

• Mr. Rzykruski : Ladies and gentlemen. I think the confusion here is that you are all very ignorant. Is that right word, ignorant? I mean stupid, primitive,unenlightened. You do not understand science, so you are afraid of it. Like a dog is afraid of thunder or balloons. To you, science is magic and witchcraft because you have such small minds. I cannot make your heads bigger, but your children's heads, I can take them and crack them open. This is what I try to do, to get at their brains!

• Mr. Rzykruski : Science is not good or bad, Victor. But it can be used both ways. That is why you must always be careful.

• Victor Frankenstien : Nobody likes scientists.

  Mr. Rzykruski : They like what science gives them, but not the questions, no. Not the questions that science asks.

  Victor Frankenstien : [pause]  Actually, I have a question.

  Mr. Rzykruski : [chuckles]  That is why you are scientist.

• Mr. Rzykruski : Back home, everyone is scientist. Even my plumber wins Nobel Prize. Your country does not make enough scientist. Always needs more. You should be a scientist, Victor.

• Victor Frankenstien : I was doing my experiment, my project, and the first time it worked great. But the next time it didn't. I mean, it sort of worked, but then it didn't. And I don't know why.

  Mr. Rzykruski : Then maybe you never really understood it the first time. People think science is here

  [pointing to head] 

  Mr. Rzykruski : but it is also here.

  [pointing to chest] 

  Mr. Rzykruski : The first time, did you love your experiment?

  Victor Frankenstien : Yes.

  Mr. Rzykruski : Ah. And the second time?

  Victor Frankenstien : No. I just wanted it over.

  Mr. Rzykruski : Then you changed the variables.