Blade Runner (1982)

Joe Turkel: Tyrell

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• Tyrell : [Tyrell explains to Roy why he can't extend his lifespan]  The facts of life... to make an alteration in the evolvement of an organic life system is fatal. A coding sequence cannot be revised once it's been established.

  Batty : Why not?

  Tyrell : Because by the second day of incubation, any cells that have undergone reversion mutation give rise to revertant colonies, like rats leaving a sinking ship; then the ship... sinks.

  Batty : What about EMS-3 recombination?

  Tyrell : We've already tried it - ethyl, methane, sulfinate as an alkylating agent and potent mutagen; it created a virus so lethal the subject was dead before it even left the table.

  Batty : Then a repressor protein, that would block the operating cells.

  Tyrell : Wouldn't obstruct replication; but it does give rise to an error in replication, so that the newly formed DNA strand carries with it a mutation - and you've got a virus again... but this, all of this is academic. You were made as well as we could make you.

  Batty : But not to last.

  Tyrell : The light that burns twice as bright burns half as long - and you have burned so very, very brightly, Roy. Look at you: you're the Prodigal Son; you're quite a prize!

  Batty : I've done... questionable things.

  Tyrell : Also extraordinary things; revel in your time.

  Batty : Nothing the God of biomechanics wouldn't let you into heaven for.

• Tyrell : "More human than human" is our motto.

• Deckard : She's a replicant, isn't she?

  Tyrell : I'm impressed. How many questions does it usually take to spot them?

  Deckard : I don't get it, Tyrell.

  Tyrell : How many questions?

  Deckard : Twenty, thirty, cross-referenced.

  Tyrell : It took more than a hundred for Rachael, didn't it?

  Deckard : [realizing Rachael believes she's human]  She doesn't know.

  Tyrell : She's beginning to suspect, I think.

  Deckard : Suspect? How can it not know what it is?

• Tyrell : We began to recognize in them a strange obsession. After all, they are emotionally inexperienced, with only a few years in which to store up the experiences which you and I take for granted. If we gift them with a past, we create a cushion or a pillow for their emotions, and consequently, we can control them better.

  Deckard : Memories! You're talking about memories!

• Tyrell : Is this to be an empathy test? Capillary dilation of the so-called blush response? Fluctuation of the pupil. Involuntary dilation of the iris...

  Deckard : We call it Voight-Kampff for short.

• Tyrell : I'm surprised you didn't come here sooner.

  Batty : It's not an easy thing to meet your maker.

  Tyrell : What could he do for you?

  Batty : Can the maker repair what he makes?

• [Batty wants Tyrell to extend his lifespan] 

  Tyrell : Would you... like to be upgraded?

  Batty : I had in mind something a little more radical.

  Tyrell : What... what seems to be the problem?

  Batty : Death.

  Tyrell : Death; ah, well that's a little out of my jurisdiction. You...

  Batty : *I want more life, fucker/father!* (IMDb Editor's note: see trivia section for details)

• Rachael : Mr. Deckard, Dr. Elden Tyrell.

  Tyrell : Demonstrate it. I want to see it work.

  Deckard : Where is the subject?

  Tyrell : I want to see it work on a person. I want to see a negative before I provide you with a positive.

  Deckard : What's that gonna prove?

  Tyrell : Indulge me.

  Deckard : On you?

  Tyrell : Try her.

• Tyrell : Commerce is our goal, here. More human than human.

• Tyrell : Milk and cookies kept you awake, eh, Sebastian?