“Do you want to know why I use a knife? Guns are too quick. You can't...” – Joker, The Dark Knight ... Movie Quotes Database

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A scene from The Dark Knight 2008

Joker

[to Detective Stephens]

Do you want to know why I use a knife? [pause] Guns are too quick. You can't savor all of the little...emotions. You see, in their...last moments, people show you who they really are. So in a way...I knew your friends better than you ever did. Would you like to know which of them were cowards?

Detective Stephens

[sighs and begins rolling up his sleeves as he stalks towards the Joker]

I know you're going to enjoy this.

Detective Stephens

[The Joker simply rolls his shoulders and cracks his neck]

So I'm just going to have to try to enjoy it...even more.

In this scene

The Joker Heath Ledger More Joker quotes →

Rachel Dawes Maggie Gyllenhaal More Rachel Dawes quotes →

Detective Stephens Keith Szarabajka

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[The officer reluctantly hands over the detonator, and after a brief moment, the inmate throws the detonator out the window into the ocean and sits back down without saying a word]