A Mighty Heart Quotes

  • Mariane Pearl: And kidnappers - their point is to terrorize people. But *I* am not terrorized, and *you* can't be terrorized.

  • Captain: [after the two men have just watched a man be tortured] Are you okay?

    Randall Bennett: [smiling nervously] Yeah.

    Captain: We'll go easy on this next guy. He's a jihadi, spent time in Afghanistan. And he's a police officer.

    Randall Bennett: Man, I love this town.

  • Mariane Pearl: [looking at a picture of her husband smiling while having a gun to his head] He says "fuck you" to them.

  • [first lines]

    Mariane Pearl: [narrating] The day after 9-11, Danny and I flew to Pakistan. He was the South Asia Bureau Chief for the Wall Street Journal, and I was working for French Public Radio. Thousands of journalist from all over the world arrived in Islamabad to cover the war in neighboring Afghanistan. On the 7th October, bombing began.

  • Male Guest: What abut the CIA agent, man?

    Mariane Pearl: How do you mean?

    Male Guest: All the American journalists are CIA agents, aren't they?

    Asra: Sure. I mean, I work for the Wall Street Journal, so does that make me a CIA agent?

    Male Guest: What do Americans really know about Pakistan, you know? I mean what do they know Afghanistan? A part from bombing all the time.

    Asra: That's why I am a journalists, to let people know.

  • Mariane Pearl: It is not just a group of extremist Pakistani. It is a vast and international network of terrorists. And where ever there is misery, they find people. And there is misery in lots of parts of the world.

  • [last lines]

    Mariane Pearl: [holding Adam for the first time] This film is for Adam.

A Mighty Heart

Director: Michael Winterbottom

Language: English,French,Urdu,Arabic Release date: June 22, 2007