There Will Be Blood

Daniel Plainview:
Listen, Paul. If I travel all the way out there and I find that you've been lying to me, I'm going to find you and I'm going to take more than my money back. Is that all right with you?

Daniel Plainview:
Can everything around here be got?

Daniel Plainview:
What would you like, Eli?

Daniel Plainview:
Now run along and play, and don't come back.

Daniel Plainview:
There's a whole ocean of oil under our feet! No one can get at it except for me!

Daniel Plainview:
I'm Finished

Daniel Plainview:
One night I'm gonna come to you, inside of your house, wherever you're sleeping, and I'm gonna cut your throat.

Daniel Plainview:
I told you I was going to eat you! I told you I was going to eat you up!

Daniel Plainview:
I drink your milkshake. I drink it up!

Daniel Plainview:
Are you an angry man, Henry?

Daniel Plainview:
Are you envious? Do you get envious?

Daniel Plainview:
Well, if it's in me, it's in you. There are times when I look at people and I see nothing worth liking. I want to earn enough money that I can get away from everyone.

Daniel Plainview:
I don't know. Maybe it will change. Does your sound come back to you? I don't know. Maybe no one knows that. A doctor might not know that.

Daniel Plainview:
I don't want to talk about those things. I see the worst in people. I don't need to look past seeing them to get all I need. I've built my hatreds up over the years, little by little, Henry... to have you here gives me a second breath. I can't keep doing this on my own with these... people.

Daniel Plainview:
You're not the chosen brother, Eli. It was Paul who was chosen. You see, he found me and told me about your land. You're just a fool.

Daniel Plainview:
If I travel all the way there and find out that you're a liar, I'll find you and take more than my money back, is that alright with you?

Daniel Plainview:
I have a competition in me. I want no one else to succeed.

H. M. Tilford:
Build a pipeline. Make a deal with Union Oil. Be my guest, but if you can't pull it off, you've got an ocean of oil under your feet with nowhere to go. Why not turn it over to us? We'll make you rich. You spend time with your boy. It's a great discovery. Now let us help you.

Daniel Plainview:
[after long pause] Did you just tell me how to run my family?

Tilford:
It might be more important now that you've proven the field and we're offering to buy you out.

Daniel:
One night, I'm gonna come to you, inside of your house, wherever you're sleeping, and I'm going to cut your throat.

Eli Sunday:
Daniel, I'm asking if you'd like to have business with the Church of the Third Revelation in developing this lease on young Bandy's thousand acre tract. I'm offering you to drill on one of the great undeveloped fields of Little Boston!

Daniel Plainview:
I'd be happy to work with you.

Eli:
You would? Yes, yes, of course. That’s wonderful.

Daniel :
But there is one condition for this work.

Eli:
All right.

Daniel :
I'd like you to tell me that you are a false prophet. I'd like you to tell me that you are, and have been, a false prophet, and that God is a superstition.

Daniel Plainview:
You're not the chosen brother, Eli. 'Twas Paul who was chosen. See, he found me and told me about your land. You're just a fool!

Eli Sunday:
Why are you talking about Paul? Don't say this to me.

Daniel:
I did what your brother couldn't. I broke you and I beat you. It was Paul who told me about you. He's the prophet. He's the smart one. He knew what was there. He found me to take it out of the ground. You know what the funny thing is? Listen, listen, listen! I paid him $10,000 cash in hand, just like that. He has his own company now — prosperous little business — three wells producing $5000 a week. Stop crying, you sniveling ass! Stop your nonsense! You're just the afterbirth, Eli —

Eli:
No...

Daniel:
— that slithered out in your mother's filth. They should have put you in a glass jar on a mantelpiece. Where were you when Paul was suckling at his mother's teat, eh? Where were you? Who was nursing you, poor Eli? One of Bandy's sows? That land has been had. There’s nothing you can do about it. It’s gone, had.

Eli:
If you would just —

Daniel:
You lose.

Eli:
— take this lease, Daniel!

Daniel:
[almost whispers] Drainage! Drainage, Eli, you boy! Drained dry. I’m so sorry. Here: if you have a milkshake, and I have a milkshake, and I have a straw — There it is. That's a straw, see? Watch it. Now my straw reaches across the room, [walks a few steps away with his arm over his head, indicating the length of the straw] and [he walks back to Eli and puts his hand, with his index finger pointing downward still representing the straw, right in his face] starts to drink your milkshake. I. Drink. Your! Milkshake! [makes a loud slurping noise] I DRINK IT UP!

Eli:
Don't bully me, Daniel!

Daniel:
[angrily grabs Eli and throws him to the floor] Did you think your song and dance and your superstition would help you, Eli?! I am the Third Revelation. I am whom the Lord has chosen. [throws bowling balls at Eli]

Eli:
[dodging the bowling balls] Daniel!

Daniel:
Because I'm smarter than you! I'm older!

Eli:
I'm your old friend, Daniel! Help me! Help me, please!

Daniel:
I'm not a false prophet, you sniveling boy! I am the Third Revelation! I am the Third Revelation! I told you I would eat you!

Eli:
We're family!

Daniel:
I told you I would eat you up!

Daniel Plainview:
You're not my son. Never have been. You're an... you're an orphan. D'you ever hear that word? [to George] Tell 'em what I said! You operated here today like one. I should have seen this coming. I should have known that under this, all these past years, you've been building your hate for me piece by piece. I don't even know who you are because you have none of me in you. You're someone else's. This anger, your maliciousness, backwards dealings with me. You're an orphan from a basket in the middle of the desert, and I took you for no other reason than I needed a sweet face to buy land. D'you get that? So now you know. [whistles mockingly] Look at me. You're lower than a bastard. You have none of me in you. You're just a bastard from a basket.

HW's Interpreter, George:
I thank God I have none of you in me.

Daniel Plainview:
[H.W. and George get up and begin to leave the room] You're not my son. You're just a little piece of competition. Bastard from a basket. Bastard from a basket! You're a bastard from a basket!

Eli Sunday:
You are a stupid man, Abel. You've let someone come in here and walk all over us. You let him in and do his work here, and you are a stupid man for what we could have had.

Abel Sunday:
I followed His word, Eli. I tried.

Eli Sunday:
You didn't do anything but sit down. You're lazy and you're stupid. Do you think God is going to save you for being stupid? He doesn't save stupid people, Abel.

Daniel Plainview:
I'm an oil man, ladies and gentlemen. I have numerous concerns spread across this state. I have many wells flowing at many thousand barrels per day. I like to think of myself as an oil man. As an oil man, I hope that you'll forgive just good old-fashioned plain speaking. Now, this work that we do is very much a family enterprise. I work side by side with my wonderful son, H. W.—I think one or two of you might have met him already—and I encourage my men to bring their families as well. Of course, it makes for an ever so much more rewarding life. Family means children, and children means education, so wherever we set up camp, education is a necessity, and we're just so happy to take care of that. We'll have to build a wonderful school in Little Boston. These children are the future that we strive for, and so they should have the very best of things. Now, there's something else, and please don't be insulted if I speak about this: bread. Let's talk about bread. Now to my mind, it's an abomination to consider that any man, woman or child in this magnificent country of ours should have to look upon a loaf of bread as a luxury. We're going to dig water wells here, and water wells means irrigation. Irrigations means cultivation. We're going to raise crops here where before it simply wasn't possible. You're going to have more grain than you know what to do with! Bread'll be coming right out of your ears, ma'am. New roads, agriculture, employment, education: these are just a few of the things that we can offer you, and I assure you, ladies and gentlemen, that if we do find oil here—and I think there's a very great chance that we will—this community of yours will not only survive. It will flourish!

Eli Sunday:
Oh, Daniel, you've come here and you’ve brought good and wealth, but you have also brought your bad habits as a backslider. You've lusted after women and you have abandoned your child. Your child that you raised, you have abandoned, all because he was sick and you have sinned, so say it now: "I am a sinner."