The Man from Earth (2007)

Richard Riehle: Dr. Will Gruber

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• Dr. Will Gruber : If I shot you John, you're immortal? Would you survive this?

  John Oldman : I never said I was immortal, just old. I might die. And then you could wonder the rest of your incarcerated life what you shot...

• Dr. Will Gruber : History hates a vacuum. Improvisation, some of it very sincere, fills the gaps. It would have been easy to falsify a past back then. A few words, credulity time would do the rest.

• Dr. Will Gruber : I still don't believe you, you know. You need help.

  John Oldman : Everybody needs help.

  Dr. Will Gruber : Yes, well. Some more than others.

• Dr. Will Gruber : When did you begin to believe you were Jesus?

  John Oldman : When did you begin to believe you were a psychiatrist?

  Dr. Will Gruber : Since I graduated from Harvard Medical School and finished my residency, I've had that feeling. Why I sometimes dream about it.

  John Oldman : Have you acted upon this belief?

• Dr. Will Gruber : So, you're a caveman?

  John Oldman : Yes, uh... I *was* a cro-magnon, I think.

  Dr. Will Gruber : You don't know if you're a caveman or not?

  John Oldman : [half laughs]  No, I'm sure about that.

• Dr. Will Gruber : We will die, you will live. Will you come to my funeral, John.

  Sandy : You've gone too far, John didn't ask to be what he is.

  Dr. Will Gruber : And we did not ask to hear about it...