Justin Timberlake: Will Salas

In Time

Will Salas

Henry Hamilton: How old are you? In real time?
Will Salas: 28.
Henry Hamilton: I'm 105.
Will Salas: Good for you. You won't see 106, you have too many more nights like tonight.
Henry Hamilton: You are right. But the day comes when you've had enough. Your mind can be spent, even if your body's not. We want to die. We need to.
Will Salas: That's your problem? You've been alive too long? You ever known anyone who's died?
Henry Hamilton: For a few to be immortal, many must die.
Will Salas: What the hell is that supposed to mean?
Henry Hamilton: You really don't know, do you? Everyone can't live forever. Where would we put them? Why do you think there are time zones? Why do you think taxes and prices go up the same day in the ghetto? The cost of living keeps rising to make sure people keep dying. How else could there be men with a million years while most live day to day? But the truth is... there's more than enough. No one has to die before their time. If you had as much time as I have on that clock, what would you do with it?
Will Salas: I'd stop watching it. I can tell you one thing. If I had all that time, I sure as hell wouldn't waste it.

Philippe Weis: You might upset the balance for a generation, two. But don't fool yourself. In the end, nothing will change. Because everyone wants to live forever. They all think they have a chance at immortality, even though all the evidence is against it. They all think they will be the exception. But the truth is, for a few to be immortal, many must die.
Will Salas: [points a gun at Philippe] No one should be immortal, if even one person has to die.

Sylvia Weis: Will, if you get a lot of time, are you really gonna give it away?
Will Salas: I've only ever had a day. How much do you need? How can you live with yourself watching people die right next to you?
Sylvia Weis: You don't watch. You close your eyes. I can help you get all the time you want.

[first lines]
Will Salas: I don't have time. I don't have time to worry about how it happened. It is what it is. We're genetically engineered to stop aging at 25. The trouble is, we live only one more year, unless we can get more time. Time is now the currency. We earn it and spend it. The rich can live forever. And the rest of us? I just want to wake up with more time on my hand than hours in the day.

Will Salas: [Salas sees that the Weiss home is situated on the beach, but Sylvia has never gone swimming] All these years, you had this in your back yard, and you never went in?

Will Salas: [as they are pursued by Raymond Leon] Trust me, he'll give up before we do.
Sylvia Weis: Are you sure about that?
Will Salas: No.

Will Salas: [Resting Sylvia's hand on the trigger of a gun] This is called a trigger. You only pull it when you want to shoot something.
Sylvia Weis: [Pulls trigger] I wanted to shoot something.

Philippe Weis: Even if you gave a year to a million people, you're just prolonging their agony.
Sylvia Weis: We're prolonging their lives.
Philippe Weis: Flooding the wrong zone with a million years, it could cripple the system.
Will Salas: Let's hope so.
Sylvia Weis: We're not meant to live like this. We're not meant to live for ever. Although I do wonder, Father, if you've ever lived a day in your life.