Daniel Craig credited as playing...
Lord Asriel
- [first lines]
- Serafina Pekkala: There are many universes and many Earths parallel to each other. Worlds like yours, where people's souls live inside their bodies, and worlds like mine, where they walk beside us, as animal spirits we call daemons.
- Stelmaria: Are we going to see the child?
- Lord Asriel: I should think so.
- Serafina Pekkala: So many worlds. But connecting them all is Dust. Dust was here before the witches of the air, the Gyptians of the water, and the bears of the ice. In my world, scholars invented an alethiometer - a golden compass - and it showed them all that was hidden. But the ruling power, fearing any truth but their own, destroyed these devices and forbade the very mention of Dust. One compass remains, however, and only one who can read it.
- [from trailer]
- Lord Asriel: I propose to discover a world much like our own in a parallel universe.
- Fra Pavel: That is heresy!
- Lord Asriel: That is the truth.
- Lord Asriel: [as she slaps the glass of wine down to the floor] Lyra!
- Lyra Belacqua: It's poisoned.
- Lord Asriel: Nonsense.
- Lyra Belacqua: It ain't nonsense. I saw that man from the magisterium pour some powder into the wine.
- Lord Asriel: [looks down and heard voices] Go back in there. Keep your eyes open and your mouth shut. Go on.
- Lord Asriel: I see your dæmon still changes shape. Hasn't settled yet.
- Lyra Belacqua: Yeah. That's to do with dust, isn't it? Why kids' dæmons can change shape but grown-ups' dæmons can't.
- Lord Asriel: Lyra. Dust is none of your business. Now you try and behave.