A scene from Collateral 2004
Vincent

Lady Macbeth, we're sitting here and the light's green. Leave the seats. You no longer have the cleanest cab in La-La Land. You gotta live with that. Focus on the job. Drive. 7565 Fountain. You know it?

Max Durocher

West Hollywood.

Vincent

How long you figure?

Max Durocher

I don't know, man, 17 minutes. Why? Oh, no. No, no, no. Hold on, man.

Vincent

I told you we had other stops to make tonight.

Max Durocher

You said you had to go and visit some friends.

Vincent

Well, they're somebody's friends. You drive a cab, I make my rounds, you might make it through the night, come out 700 bucks ahead.

Max Durocher

I'm not trying to piss you off, but I can't do this. I can't drive you while you go around killing people. It ain't my job.

Vincent

Tonight it is.

Max Durocher

Look, you don't get it. I mean it. I mean it. I'm not up for this.

Vincent

Okay, hey, hey, hey. You're stressed. I understand that. Now, you just keep breathing and stay calm. Okay, look, here's the deal. Man, you were gonna drive me around tonight, never be the wiser, but El Gordo got in front of a window, did his high dive, we're into Plan B. Still breathing? Now we gotta make the best of it, improvise, adapt to the environment, Darwin, shit happens, I Ching, whatever man, we gotta roll with it.

Max Durocher

I Ching? What are you talking about, man? You threw a man out of a window.

Vincent

I didn't throw him. He fell.

Max Durocher

Well what did he do to you?

Vincent

What?

Max Durocher

What did he do to you?

Vincent

Nothing. I only met him tonight.

Max Durocher

You just met him once and you killed him like that?

Vincent

What? I should only kill people after I get to know them? Max, six billion people on the planet, you're getting bent out of shape cause of one fat guy.

Max Durocher

Well, who was he?

Vincent

What do you care? Have you ever heard of Rwanda?

Max Durocher

Yes, I know Rwanda.

Vincent

Well, tens of thousands killed before sundown. Nobody's killed people that fast since Nagasaki and Hiroshima. Did you bat an eye, Max?

Max Durocher

What?

Vincent

Did you join Amnesty International, Oxfam, Save the Whales, Greenpeace, or something? No. I off one fat Angelino and you throw a hissy fit.

Max Durocher

Man, I don't know any Rwandans.

Vincent

You don't know the guy in the trunk, either. Okay, if it makes you feel any better, he was a criminal involved in a continuing criminal enterprise.

Max Durocher

What are you doing? You just taking out the garbage?

Vincent

Yeah, something like that.

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