There Will Be Blood Quote

Eli Sunday : Daniel, I'm asking if you'd like to have business with the Church of the Third Revelation in developing this lease on young Bandy's thousand acre tract. I'm offering you to drill on one of the great undeveloped fields of Little Boston!
Plainview : I'd be happy to work with you.
Eli Sunday : You would? Yes, yes, of course. Wonderful.
Plainview : But there is one condition for this work.
Eli Sunday : Alright.
Plainview : I'd like you to tell me that you are a false prophet... I'd like you to tell me that you are, and have been, a false prophet... and that God is a superstition.
Eli Sunday : ...but that's a lie... it's a lie, I cannot say it. [ long pause ]
Eli Sunday : When can we begin to drill?
Plainview : Right away.
Eli Sunday : How long will it take to bring in the well?
Plainview : Should be very quick.
Eli Sunday : I would like a one hundred thousand dollar signing bonus plus the five that is owed with interest.
Plainview : That's only fair.
Eli Sunday : I am a false prophet and God is a superstition. If that's what you believe, then I will say it.
Plainview : Say it like you mean it.
Eli Sunday : Daniel...
Plainview : Say it like it's your sermon.
Eli Sunday : This is foolish. [ long pause ]
Eli Sunday : I am a false prophet! God is a superstition! I am a false prophet! God is a superstition! I am a false prophet! God is a superstition! [ pause ]
Eli Sunday : Is that fine?
Plainview : Those areas have been drilled.
Eli Sunday : What?
Plainview : Those areas have been drille

Movie: There Will Be Blood

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