Dimitri Moisevitch Quotes in 2010 (1984)

Dimitri Moisevitch: I want to play a game with you, Dr. Floyd.

Dr. Heywood Floyd: I don't have time for games.

Dimitri Moisevitch: This is a good game. It's called "The Truth." For two minutes, I will tell only the truth, and so will you.

Dr. Heywood Floyd: Two minutes?

Dimitri Moisevitch: Two minutes.

Dr. Heywood Floyd: Make it a minute and a half.

Dimitri Moisevitch: One minute and three quarters.

Dr. Heywood Floyd: You start.

Dr. Heywood Floyd: You just read that report? Took you this long to steal our secrets?

Dimitri Moisevitch: How long does it take for your people to steal ours?

Dr. Heywood Floyd: Same amount of time.

Dimitri Moisevitch: Have you checked Discovery's orbit lately?

Dr. Heywood Floyd: What?

Dimitri Moisevitch: Have you checked the orbit?

Dr. Heywood Floyd: What about it?

Dimitri Moisevitch: Now it's getting chilly here. This is very bad for my asthma.

Dr. Heywood Floyd: You know damn well we've been checking it!

Dimitri Moisevitch: I have enjoyed our little chat, Dr. Floyd.

[turns to walk away]

Dr. Heywood Floyd: What is it you're not telling me?

Dimitri Moisevitch: You are a smart man, Dr. Floyd. You will know what to do.

[leaves]

Dimitri Moisevitch: Here we have our quandary: we are going to get there first, yet you have the knowledge to make the trip work.

[realization dawns across Dr. Floyd's face]

Dimitri Moisevitch: How much time do I have left?

Dr. Heywood Floyd: You just bought yourself an extension.

Dimitri Moisevitch: [to Dr. Heywood Floyd] Neatness. It's a good quality. You'll make somebody a fine wife.

Dimitri Moisevitch: It doesn't take a smart man to appreciate the risk I'm taking by being here with you, Dr. Floyd, and you are a smart man. This is a very bad business in Central America. Ships, planes, buzzing around each other like angry hornets. Very bad.

Dr. Heywood Floyd: We didn't start it.

Dimitri Moisevitch: We are scientists, Dr. Floyd. Our governments are enemies. We are not.