Paul Dreyfus Quotes in Dante's Peak (1997)

[slight tremor]

Terry, USGS Crew: Did anybody feel that?

[large tremor throws them about]

Paul Dreyfus: I felt that.

Paul Dreyfus: We're picking up some activity around Dante's Peak.

Harry Dalton: This is a joke right? Dante's Peak?

Paul Dreyfus: Harry, listen... for what it's worth... you were right and I was wrong.

Paul Dreyfus: [during the meeting] Ladies and Gentlemen, I can assure you that there is no immediate danger, I believe that this is not the time to put this town on alert. this type of thing happened with mammoth mountain in 1980. The good thing is, that the mountain didn't go up, but the damage was already done, tourists stopped going to the mountain, real estate values plummeted, and the town nearly went bankrupt. My team and I are going to stay as long as we can, and we are going to monitor every little hiccup that mountain makes, we're gonna bounce off laser beams, to find out of any change in the mountain's shape, and see if there is any increase in gas emissions, we're even gonna send a robot up there to take the darn thing's temperature. So, if the times comes to put this town on alert, "if" the times comes, it will be based on scientific evidence, and not based on somebody's opinion.

[looks back at Harry]