Flint Marko Quotes in Spider-Man 3 (2007)

Flint Marko: [looks down at the crowd below] I didn't want this. But I had no choice...

Peter Parker: We always have a choice. You had a choice when you killed my uncle.

Flint Marko: My daughter was dying, I needed money.

[flashback: Flint knocks on the car window with a gun]

Flint Marko: I was scared. I told your uncle all I wanted was the car. He said to me "Why don't you just put down the gun and go home?" I realise now he was just trying to help me.

[Uncle Ben tells Flint to put down the gun and go home, just when Flint's partner exits a nearby building with the money]

Flint Marko: Then I saw my partner running over with the cash... and the gun was in my hand...

[he shakes Flint's arm - causing him to shoot Uncle Ben. Flint realizes this]

Flint Marko: I did a terrible thing to you, I spent a lot of nights wishing I could take it back.

[Flint's partner drives off with the car, but Flint stays by Uncle Ben's side]

Flint Marko: [to Peter] I'm not asking you to forgive me. I just want you to understand.

Peter Parker: I've done terrible things too.

Flint Marko: I didn't choose to be this. The only thing left of me now... is my daughter.

Peter Parker: [after a pause] I forgive you.

Flint Marko: [grabs Venom in mid-swing, thinking he's Spider-Man] End of the line, Spider-Man.

Venom: [roars in his face]

Flint Marko: [seeing it's not Spider-Man, tosses him aside]

Venom: I want him dead too, Flint. That's why I've been looking for you. Oh, yeah, I know all about you. Like the fact that Spider-Man won't let you help your poor daughter. It's just - That doesn't seem right to me. Look, I want to kill the spider, you wanna kill the spider. Together, he doesn't stand a chance. Interested?

Flint Marko: Yeah.

Flint Marko: I had a good reason for what I was doing. And that's the truth.

Emma Marko: You and the truth, sitting in prison, having three meals a day together. I live in the presence of great truth...

[points at her daughter's bedroom]

Emma Marko: ...and that is the truth that you left behind right there in that bedroom.

[Penny walks out of her room, Flint walks up to her]

Flint Marko: Penny. I missed you.

Penny Marko: I miss you too, Daddy.

Flint Marko: I promise I'll make you healthy again. Whatever it takes, I'll get the money.

Emma Marko: You get out of here. Now.

Flint Marko: [exits through the window] I'm not a bad person. Just had bad luck.

Spider-Man: [surprising the Sandman] Flint Marko.

Spider-Man: [angrily] Remember Ben Parker? The old man you shot down in cold blood?

Flint Marko: What does it matter to you, anyway?

Spider-Man: [as subway car passes by loudly and blares its horn] Everything!

Flint Marko: I don't want to hurt you. Leave now.

Spider-Man: [chuckles] I guess you haven't heard. I'm the sheriff around these parts!