The Current War (2017)

Michael Shannon: George Westinghouse

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• Thomas Edison : The world will never be the same. I'm working on something now, something so new that people will forget I was ever associated with electricity.

  George Westinghouse : I wonder if you know what it is yet. You know, I think the solution is to divide the cost of the fence. Or you could not build a fence at all. Your garden would be twice as big. Wouldn't it, Tom?

• George Westinghouse : I can take a beating, but I have no patience for shoddy craftmanship.

• George Westinghouse : The value of something isn't what someone's willing to pay, but the value of something is what it contributes.

• George Westinghouse : It seems to me that Mr. Edison puts his name on everything because he's terrified of being forgotten. But if you want to be remembered, it's simple. Shoot a president. But if you prefer to have what I call a legacy, you leave the world a better place than you found it.

• Franklin Pope : The good thing about Edison is that he could be the richest man in the world, but he doesn't give a damn about money.

  George Westinghouse : What does he give a damn about?

• Bourke Cockran : I should warn you. There's one thing that always beats justice.

  George Westinghouse : Money?

  Bourke Cockran : Fame.