The Ninth Gate
1999
Baroness Kessler: My latest work: "The Devil: History and Myth" - a kind of biography. It will be published next year. Dean Corso: Why the devil? Baroness Kessler: (laughs) I saw him one day. I was fifteen years old, and I saw him as plain as I see you now: cutaway, top hat, cane. Very elegant, very handsome. It was love at first sight.
Liana Telfer: Don't fuck with me! Dean Corso: I thought I just did.
Boris Balkan: (Crashing the black mass) Mumbo Jumbo! Mumbo Jumbo!
Boris Balkan: Nothing is more reliable than a man whose loyalties can be bought with hard cash.
Ceniza: Even Hell has its heroes, seņor.
Liana Telfer: You work for money I take it. Dean Corso: What else? Liana Telfer: I have a great deal of money. Dean Corso: I'm very happy for you.
Bernie: I told him I had nothing to do with this operation. Dean Corso: Nothing except your ten percent. Bernie: Twenty. The Swiss is my client, remember. Dean Corso: (shakes his head) No deal. Bernie: Fifteen. For my children's sake. Dean Corso: You don't have any. Bernie: I'm still young. Give me time. Dean Corso: (expels a lungful of smoke, unmoved) Ten.
(first lines) Dean Corso: It's an impressive collection. You have some very rare editions here. Are you sure you want to sell them all? Old Man's Son: They're of no use to father. Not anymore. Not since he's been this way. His library was his whole world. Now it's just a feeble memory.
Boris Balkan: You must see her again. Dean Corso: Are you kidding? Have you seen her secretary? Boris Balkan: Try the lunch break.