Gregory Stark Quotes in Zero Effect (1998)

Gregory Stark: Is this your kid?

Steve Arlo: Nope. Just a rental.

Steve Arlo: He can elicit a confession from a criminal without their realizing they're being questioned.

Gregory Stark: How does he do it?

Steve Arlo: He has a deeply nuanced and thoroughly functional understanding of human behavior to rival the great psychoanalytical minds of our time. He understands the criminal mind as well as the innocent mind, the stable mind as well as the psychotic, sociopathic mind. The male, as well as the female.

Gregory Stark: You can't buy silence. You can only rent it. So if someone has something on you, they are always going to have it. So the cost has no ceiling. And the fear has no end to it. That's why some knowledge, some information is like a terminal disease. It's contagious and it's fatal.

Steve Arlo: $5 million, so you can kill someone right away instead of a day later.

Gregory Stark: No, no. For $5 million, you do it.