The Giver (2014)

Meryl Streep: Chief Elder

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• Chief Elder : When people have the freedom to choose, they choose wrong--every single time.

• The Giver : Her name was Rosemary. She was my daughter. I loved her.

  Chief Elder : Precision of language.

  The Giver : [chuckles]  I could not be more precise.

• Chief Elder : Jonas, what do you and the Receiver actually do?

  Jonas : My rules say I am not allowed to share.

  Mother : She's the Chief Elder. Jonas, she only wants to help.

  Jonas : You're right.

  [to the Chief Elder] 

  Jonas : But you can't tell the Receiver I told you.

  Chief Elder : You have my word.

  Jonas : We sit in chairs and don't talk all day long, and then, when time is up, I come back here, and in the morning I do it all again.

• Chief Elder : Number 51, Asher. Unruly, careless. Sometimes those most in need of responsibility learn best by being the practitioners of it. Drone Pilot. Thank you for your childhood.

  Asher : You can keep it!

• Chief Elder : [beginning her commencement speech]  Beginnings... From disorder and chaos, from great suffering, great pain. From confusion and envy and hatred came a solution: Communities. Serene, beautiful places where disorder became harmony.