Dr. Serizawa quotes from Godzilla (2014)

Dr. Serizawa

In 1954, the first time a nuclear submarine ever reached the lower depths, it awakened something.

The Americans first thought that it was the Russians, and the Russians thought it was them. All those nuclear bomb tests in the fifties? Not tests.

Dr. Serizawa

They were trying to kill it. Him, an ancient alpha predator.

Millions of years older than mankind. From an age when the Earth was 10 times more radioactive than today. This animal and others like it consumed this radiation as a food source. As the levels on the surface naturally subsided these creatures adapted to live deeper in the oceans, further underground. Absorbing radiation from the planet's core. The organization we work for, Monarch, was established in the wake of this discovery. A multinational coalition formed in secrecy to search for him, study him. Learn everything we could.

Dr. Serizawa

We call him...Gojira.

The top of a primordial ecosystem. A god, for all intents and purposes.

Ford Brody

A monster.

Admiral Stenz

Prep the warheads and get them moving to the coast. [to Dr. Serizawa] I know you don't agree with this. But my first priority is to safeguard our citizens. [a distraught Dr. Serizawa shows Admiral Stenz his pocket watch] It's stopped.

Dr. Serizawa

Yes. Eight-fifteen in the morning, August 6, 1945.

Stenz

Hiroshima.

Serizawa

It was my father's...

Admiral Stenz

This "alpha predator" of yours, doctor...do you really think it has a chance?

Dr. Serizawa

The arrogance of man is thinking nature is in our control...and not the other way around. Let them fight.

It's almost 300 feet. It's much bigger than the other one.

Admiral Stenz

This one doesn't have any wings.

A different sex?

Dr. Serizawa

A female.

THAT'S who he's been talking to.

Serizawa

It must be a mating call. The female remained dormant until the male matured.

Now they're seeking radiation...to reproduce!