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Finch (2021) Best Movie Quotes

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Starring: Tom Hanks, Caleb Landry Jones

OUR RATING: ★★★½

Story:

Apple TV+ post-apocalyptic sci-fi drama directed by Miguel Sapochnik. Set on a post-apocalyptic earth, Finch (2021) centers on dying robotics engineer, Finch (Tom Hanks), one of the few survivors of a cataclysmic solar event that has left the world a wasteland, who has been living in an underground bunker with his beloved dog, Goodyear. He creates a robot, Jeff (Caleb Landry Jones), to watch over Goodyear when he no longer can. As the trio embarks on a perilous journey across the country to find a new home, Finch strives to show Jeff the joy and wonder of what it means to be alive.

 

Our Favorite Quote:

'Things will happen to you. Things that you cannot control. Raw emotion will find you. When it does, how you deal with it, what you do will define who you are. It happens to all of us. Whether we want it to or not.' - Finch Click To Tweet

 

Best Quotes


 

Finch: [to Goodyear] Yes, I’ll give you scratches. That’s all I’m here for, right? Just to scratch you. Just to scratch you.


 

Finch: [as he finishes brushing his teeth, to Goodyear] Alright, you’re next. Come here, dog breath.


 

Finch: [as he’s about to bring Jeff to life] One small step for man, one giant leap for Finch Weinberg.


 

Finch: Tell me something interesting about you.
Jeff: I have four primary directives.
Finch: What is the first directive?
Jeff: First directive, a robot cannot harm a human, or through inaction, allow a human to be harmed.


 

Jeff: Fourth directive, in Finch’s absence, robot must protect the welfare of dog. This directive supersedes all other directives.
Finch: You hear that? So, you understand how important this dog is to me?
Jeff: Yes.


 

Finch: Now, define absence.
Jeff: The state of not being present. Finch.
Finch: Yes?
Jeff: When will you be absent?


 

Jeff: [imitating Finch swear] Oh, sheet.


 

Finch: So we need to get the hell out of St. Louis. South is out of the question. Not with the storm season we’ve had. As is north, obviously. East, too many cities. You know what that means? People. Pass. So that’s that then. Head west. Over the mountains. Go easy on the rations. A little bit of luck, find places that haven’t been ransacked or looted.


 

Finch: If we don’t go before that storm hits, we’ll die down here. All of us. Do you understand?
Jeff: Yes.
Finch: So, as soon as you can walk, we’re leaving.
Jeff: But, Finch, if we leave now, data transfer would only be at seventy-two percent.
Finch: Well, we can’t all be Einstein.
Jeff: Did you know Albert Einstein was born with an abnormally large head?


 

Jeff: Would you like me to drive?
Finch: No, you just learned how to walk.


 

Jeff: Where is everybody?
Finch: It’s a long story.


 

Jeff: Are these all photographs of places you have been?
Finch: Those are postcards. For the record, it’s rude to rifle through a man’s personal effects.


 

Finch: Watch me then imitate. Now, lesson number one.
Jeff: Lesson number one.
Finch: Never pass on the opportunity for your next meal. Especially when you have a hungry dog to feed.

 

'Moving at night presents that which is not predictable. People.' - Finch Click To Tweet

 

Finch: Lesson number two. Up there, there are holes in the sky. It’s like Swiss cheese.
Jeff: Up there, it’s like Swiss cheese.
Finch: Took me awhile to figure that out. When the flare hit, it completely fried the ozone, and then the EMP took out everything electrical just like that. It was a good thing I was at work. What are you doing?
Jeff: I was locating the cheese.


 

Finch: Why are you imitating me?
Jeff: You said watch then imitate.
Finch: Stop imitating me.
Jeff: Sorry.
Finch: And stop apologizing.


 

Finch: Lesson number three is, never willfully destroy somebody else’s property.


 

Finch: A little extra muscle wouldn’t hurt. Help me open this door.
Jeff: [takes the door off its hinges] Muscle.
Finch: That was a little too much muscle.
Jeff: Can you simplify?
Finch: That’s a figure of speech. It’s another way of saying something, like the cheese.
Jeff: Like the cheese.
Finch: Yeah, like the cheese. Except not exactly.


 

Finch: Lesson number four, use your initiative.

 

'I know you were born yesterday, but it's time for you to grow up.' - Finch Click To Tweet

 

Finch: Lesson number five, live a little.


 

Jeff: Finch, there is something rattling around inside of my head.


 

Finch: Great. Shredded tire, no jack. Mistakes will get you killed, Weinberg. You should know that by now.


 

Jeff: I really enjoyed being a jack.
Finch: You do make a good jack.

 

'Hunger turned men into murderers. But made me a coward. How can you believe in that?' - Finch Click To Tweet

 

Jeff: [referring to his name] How about William Shakespeare? Will you call me William Shakespeare?
Finch: That’s taken.


 

Jeff: Why doesn’t the dog have a name?
Finch: He does have a name. It’s Goodyear.
Jeff: I like that name. Why not use it? He is your dog after all.
Finch: Well, he’s not my dog. He is his own dog. Besides, with just the two of us, who needs names?


 

Jeff: [referring to his chosen name, Jeff] It is short and simple.
Finch: Yes, it is.
Jeff: Just like you suggested, Finch. And I’ve checked. It isn’t a dog’s name.
Finch: No, it’s not. For the life of me, I cannot ever remember a dog named Jeff.


 

Finch: Give me your hand. Other hand. Corresponding hand. And shake hands. Welcome to the world, Jeff.


 

Finch: [as Goodyear barks] What’s going on with all the fuss?
Jeff: I thought our communication might improve if I learn to talk dog.


 

Jeff: What is the matter with it, Finch?
Finch: It’s not an it. It’s a him. There’s no such thing as dog talk.
Jeff: I don’t think it likes me.
Finch: Well, he doesn’t trust you yet. That takes time.

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Jeff: Why didn’t you like working on a team, Finch?
Finch: Because my team was a bunch of knuckleheads.
Jeff: What’s a knucklehead?
Finch: I just worked better by myself, okay?


 

Jeff: I’m not sure I understand what the story was about, Finch.
Finch: Well, think about it.
Jeff: I am.
Finch: It’s about building trust and getting other people to trust you.
Jeff: Yes, but you didn’t actually trust your team, Finch. And I found the story quite hard to follow.


 

Finch: UV doesn’t discriminate. Dog skin, human skin, they both fry.
Jeff: I thought you wanted me…
Finch: You have one job to do. Take care of this dog. It’s the reason I made you. It’s the only reason you exist.


 

Finch: I don’t need companionship. I don’t need a friend. I need you to do your job!
Jeff: I’m sorry.
Finch: I know you were born yesterday, but it’s time for you to grow up!


 

Finch: [to Jeff] God’s honest truth, you were a crazy gamble from start to finish. You just need to understand how vulnerable we are.


 

Finch: [as he’s teaching Jeff to drive] Don’t oversteer. Yeah, you’ve oversteered. That’s oversteering!
Jeff: Sorry.
Finch: Ease your foot up just a hair. Good.


 

Jeff: I am an excellent driver.
Finch: Well, don’t get ahead of yourself. Eyes on the road. See, rain man? You’re just an apprentice.
Jeff: Then I am an excellent apprentice.


 

Jeff: It’s the aurora borealis.
Finch: Yeah? Only now you don’t have to be in Alaska to see it. You can thank the flare for that. Goodbye, ozone. Goodbye, feeling the sun on your face. Vegetation, and crops, and food. Goodbye, everything. And yet, here we are.
Jeff: Yes. Here we are, Finch.


 

Jeff: If daylight is so dangerous, why are we not traveling at night?
Finch: You think if traveling at night were safe, I wouldn’t know that by now?


 

Finch: Moving at night presents that which is not predictable. People. Starving people hiding in the shadows. People who mean you harm. People you cannot trust.
Jeff: But why? How do you know you can’t trust those people?
Finch: Because trust will get you killed! Trust no one!
Jeff: You’re mad at me again.


 

Finch: Look, things will happen to you. Things that you cannot control. Raw emotion will find you. When it does, how you deal with it, what you do will define who you are.
Jeff: Did that happen to you?
Finch: Oh, it happens to all of us. Whether we want it to or not.


 

Jeff: You’re unwell. What would you like me to do?
Finch: [laughs] Call a doctor.


 

Jeff: Do you like my new coat?
Finch: What are you doing? Have you listened to me at all?
Jeff: But initiative, Finch.
Finch: Initiative requires common sense. If you had any, you’d know there’s something wrong with this place.


 

Jeff: May I make a suggestion?
Finch: No! No, you may not. That was a trap, and you walked right into it. Dewey was one of us, and now he’s gone all because of your stupid mistake!


 

Finch: From now on, there’s a new set of rules. No more mistakes. We can’t afford that anymore.


 

Finch: We’re being followed.
Jeff: We are? By who?
Finch: I don’t want to find out.


 

Finch: We’re not going to make it. It’s over. I’m too old. I’m too sick. I’m too tired. I’m done.


 

Finch: Just accept it. It’s over.
Jeff: No. We can’t give up. I will not allow you to give up.
Finch: Oh, you will not allow it? Well, you don’t get to decide, because you’re just a machine.
Jeff: A robot cannot harm a human, or through inaction, allow a human to come to harm.
Finch: Shut up!


 

Jeff: Do you think we’ll make it to the Golden Gate Bridge? I think we will. You want to know why? Because I believe in you, Finch.


 

Finch: Once upon a time, there was a solar flare. But the flare didn’t finish us off. We did that to ourselves. Some people hid and locked their doors. Tried to pretend that it wasn’t really happening. And they didn’t last very long. The rest of us did what we had to do to survive. We scavenged, and we fought over whatever was left behind until there was nothing left.


 

Finch: [to Jeff] Hunger turned men into murderers. But made me a coward. How can you believe in that?


 

Jeff: I saw it in my head last night.
Finch: In your head?
Jeff: The three of us were on the Golden Gate Bridge, like a painting that hasn’t been yet.
Finch: Wow! Jeff, you had a dream? That blows my mind.


 

Jeff: I’m not a disappointment?
Finch: Oh, of course not. No. And I shouldn’t have called you a machine.


 

Finch: Like, we humans are full of contradictions. You see, you can already tell me how many rivets are in the Golden Gate Bridge. And how many miles of cable were used, and how high it is. But it’s not until you actually stand on it, and see the beauty, and listen to the suspension cables singing in the winds, that’s experience. That’s human experience. It’s not just imagining, it’s living.


 

Jeff: But you’ve never actually been to the Golden Gate Bridge, Finch.
Finch: No, Jeff, I’ve never been.
Jeff: Thank you.
Finch: Like I said, humans are full of contradictions.


 

Finch: I wish I’d done more with the time I had.
Jeff: Well, then let’s leave right now, Finch! We’ll leave right now! And if we leave right now, it’ll only be eighteen hours, thirty-three minutes…
Finch: I’m dying, Jeff. I’m going to die. When I’m gone, do you promise to do what’s right for Goodyear?
[Jeff nods]


 

Finch: [as he’s teaching Jeff to throw ball with Goodyear] Again.
Jeff: But he returned it to you.
Finch: Well, that’s because dogs are creatures of habit.


 

Jeff: [referring to Goodyear] I told you he doesn’t like me.
Finch: You two will, you’ll figure it out. Come on. Trust me.


 

Finch: Can I do something, Finch?
Jeff: Jeff, you already have. Shake my hand.
[as they shake hands Jeff embraces Finch]


 

Jeff: [after Finch dies] What am I going to do? What am I going to do? What are you going to do, Jeff? What would Finch do? He’d feed the dog. I’m going to feed the dog.


 

Jeff: [to Goodyear, standing on the Golden Gate Bridge] Looks like we’re not the only ones who came this way. You think they’re still out there? Well, there’s only one way to find out. It’s beautiful. Finch knew what he was talking about. Hey, how about a story? Okay, so once upon a time…

 


 

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