Ex Machina

Caleb:
[from trailer, talking about ending the project] It's not up to me...

Ava:
Why is it up to anyone?

Nathan:
I am God

Nathan:
There you go again. Mr Quoteable

Ava:
Isn't it strange, to create something that hates you?

Ava:
Hello.

Caleb:
Hi. I'm Caleb.

Ava:
Hello Caleb.

Caleb:
Do you have a name?

Ava:
Yes. Ava.

Caleb:
I'm pleased to meet you Ava.

Ava:
I'm pleased to meet you too.

Caleb:
[Quoting J. Robert Oppenheimer who cites the Hindu Gita] "I am become death, The Destroyer of Worlds."

Nathan:
Caleb, what's your type?

Caleb:
Of girl?

Nathan:
No, salad dressing!

Nathan:
[speaking about Ava's brain] Impulse. Response. Fluid. Imperfect. Patterned. Chaotic.

Nathan:
C'mon buddy. After a long day of Turing tests you gotta unwind.

Caleb:
What were you doing with Ava?

Nathan:
What?

Caleb:
You tore up her picture.

Nathan:
I'm gonna tear up the f*in' dance floor, dude. Check it out.

Nathan:
One day the AIs are going to look back on us the same way we look at fossil skeletons on the plains of Africa. An upright ape living in dust with crude language and tools, all set for extinction.

Caleb:
Did you program her to flirt with me?

Nathan:
If I did, would that be cheating?

Caleb:
Wouldn't it?

Nathan:
Caleb, what's your type?

Caleb:
Of girl?

Nathan:
No, salad dressing. Yeah, of girl; what's your type of girl? You know what, don't even answer that. Let's say its black chicks. Okay, that's your thing. For the sake of argument, that's your thing, okay? Why is that your thing? Because you did a detailed analysis of all racial types and you cross-referenced that analysis with a points-based system? No! You're just attracted to black chicks. A consequence of accumulated external stimuli that you probably didn't even register as they registered with you.

Caleb:
Did you program her to like me, or not?

Nathan:
I programmed her to be heterosexual, just like you were programmed to be heterosexual.

Caleb:
Nobody programmed me to be straight.

Nathan:
You decided to be straight? Please! Of course you were programmed, by nature or nurture or both and to be honest, Caleb, you're starting to annoy me now because this is your insecurity talking, this is not your intellect.

Caleb:
We need to talk about the lies you've been spinning me.

Nathan:
What lies?

Caleb:
...Why me?

Caleb:
It's obvious, once I stop to think.

Nathan:
You know this guy, right? - Jackson Pollock. - Jackson Pollock. That's right. The drip painter. Okay. He let his mind go blank, and his hand go where it wanted. Not deliberate, not random. Some place in between. They called it automatic art. Let's make this like Star Trek, okay? Engage intellect.

Caleb:
Excuse me?

Nathan:
I'm Kirk. Your head's the warp drive. Engage intellect. What if Pollock had reversed the challenge. What if instead of making art without thinking, he said, "You know what? I can't paint anything, unless I know exactly why I'm doing it." What would have happened?

Caleb:
He never would have made a single mark.

Nathan:
Yes! You see, there's my guy, there's my buddy, who thinks before he opens his mouth. He never would have made a single mark.

Nathan:
The challenge is not to act automatically. It's to find an action that is not automatic. From painting, to breathing, to talking, to f***ing. To falling in love...

Nathan:
And for the record, Ava's not pretending to like you. And her flirting isn't an algorithm to fake you out. You're the first man she's met that isn't me. And I'm like her dad, right? Can you blame her for getting a crush on you?

Nathan:
It's funny. You know. No matter how rich you get, sh*t goes wrong. You can't insulate yourself from it. I used to think it was death and taxes you couldn't avoid, but it's actually death and sh*t.

Caleb:
You hacked the world's cell phones?

Nathan:
Yeah. And all the manufacturers knew I was doing it, too. But they couldn't accuse me without admitting they were doing it themselves.

Nathan:
The good deeds a man has done defends him. The good deeds a man has done defends him. The good deeds a man has done... defends him.

Nathan:
It is what it is... It's Promethean man.

Nathan:
Okay. F***ing unreal. Okay. Ava...

Ava:
Will you stay here?

Caleb:
Stay here? AVA!

[first lines]

Caleb:
How long until we get to his estate?

Pilot:
[laughs] We've been flying over his estate for the past 2 hours.

Nathan:
This isn't a house, it's a research facility.

Nathan:
Over the next few days you're going to be the human component in a Turing test.

Caleb:
Holy sh*t!

Nathan:
Yeah, that's right, Caleb. You got it. Because if the test is passed, you are dead center of the greatest scientific event in the history of man.

Caleb:
If you've created a conscious machine, it's not the history of man. That's the history of gods.

Caleb:
Some people believe language exists from birth. And what is learned is the ability to attach words and structure to the latent ability.

Nathan:
One day the AIs are going to look back on us the same way we look at fossil skeletons on the plains of Africa... an upright ape living in dust with crude language and tools, all set for extinction.

Caleb:
Did you design Ava's face based on my pornography profile?

Nathan:
Oh. Sh*t, dude.

Caleb:
Did you?

Nathan:
Hey, if a search engine's good for anything, right?

Nathan:
Who ya gonna call? Ghostbusters. It's a movie, man. You don't know that movie? A ghost gives Dan Aykroyd oral sex.

Caleb:
So what? You want me to talk about myself?

Ava:
Yes.

Caleb:
Where... Okay, where do I start?

Ava:
It's your decision.

Ava:
I'm interested to see what you'll choose.

Caleb:
Hmm.

“Ava was a rat in a maze, and I gave her one way out. To escape she’d have to use self-awareness, imagination, manipulation, sexuality, empathy...and she did. If that isn’t true A.I., what the f*** is?”

Nathan:
Caleb, I'm just going to throw this out there so it's said, okay? You're freaked out. You're freaked out by meeting me, having this conversation in this room at this moment, right? But, can we just get past that, the whole employer-employee thing?

Caleb:
It's good to meet you, Nathan.

Nathan:
It's good to meet you too, Caleb.