Wilford quotes from Snowpiercer (2013)

Wilford

Have you ever been alone on this train? When was the last time you were alone? You can't remember, can you? So please do. Take your time.

Wilford

When's the last time you got laid? Like Gilliam said, holding a woman is much better with two arms.

Wilford

You've seen what people do without leadership. They devour one another.

Wilford

The space only allows for a very small person. Young children under 5. The engine lasts forever but not so all of its parts. That piece of equipment went extinct recently. We needed a replacement. Thank goodness the tail section manufactured us a steady supplies of kids. So we can keep going manually.

Wilford

Curtis, everyone has their preordained position, and everyone is in their place except you.

Curtis

That's what people in the best place say to the people in the worst place.

Curtis

There's not a soul on this train who wouldn't trade places with you.

Wilford

Would you trade places with me?

Curtis

**** you.

Wilford

Curtis, dear boy, the fact is that we are all stuck inside this blasted train. We are all prisoners in this hunk of metal. [indicating the steaks he's grilling] Medium rare? And this train is a closed ecosystem. We must always strive for balance. Air, water, food supply, population must always be kept in balance. For optimum balance, however, there have been times when more radical solutions were required. When the population needed to be reduced, rather... drastically.

Wilford

We don't have time for true natural selection. We would all be hideously overcrowded and starved waiting for that. The next best solution is to have individual units kill off other individual units. From time to time, we've had to stir the pot, so to speak. The Revolt of the Seven, the MacGregor Riots, the Great Curtis Revolution. A blockbuster production with a devilishly unpredictable plot. Who could have predicted your counterattack with the torch in the Yaketerina Tunnel? Pure genius. That wasn't what Gilliam and I had in our plan.

Curtis

What?

Wilford

Oh, don't tell me you didn't know. Gilliam and I... our plan.

Curtis

Gilliam?

Wilford

Gilliam.

Wilford

Our original agreement was for the insurgency to end at the Yaketerina Tunnel. And all the survivors would go back to the tail section to enjoy much more space.

Curtis

You're a **** liar. Gilliam would never do that.

Wilford

Well, it all worked out in the end. Your counterattack actually made the insurgency ten times more exciting. Unfortunately, the front suffered more losses than anticipated, and Gilliam had to... [clicking his tongue and pantomiming shooting himself in the head] ...pay the price. Ironic, isn't it? How people dramatically cross that thin barrier between life and death.