A scene from Schindler's List 1993
Schindler

I go to work the other day. Nobody's there. Nobody tells me about this. I have to find out, I have to go in. Everybody's gone.

Goeth

They're not gone. They're here.

Schindler

They're mine! Every day that goes by, I'm losing money. Every worker that is shot costs me money. I have to find somebody else. I have to train them.

Goeth

We're going to be making so much money, none of this is going to matter.

Schindler

It's bad business.

Goeth

Scherner told me something else about you.

Schindler

Yeah, what's that?

Goeth

That you know the meaning of the word 'gratitude.' That it's not some vague thing with you like it is with others. You want to stay where you are. You've got things going on the side, things are good. You don't want anybody telling you what to do. I can understand all that. You know, I know you. What you want is your own sub-camp. Do you have any idea what's involved? The paperwork alone? Forget you got to build the **** thing, getting the **** permits is enough to drive you crazy. Then the engineers show up. They stand around, they argue about drainage, foundations, codes, exact specifications, parallel fences four kilometers long, twelve hundred kilograms of barbed wire, six thousand kilograms of electrified fences...I'm telling you, you'll want to shoot somebody. I've been through it, you know, I know.

Schindler

Well, you know, you've been through it. You could make things easier for me. [Goeth shrugs] I'd be grateful.

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