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Young Murph: Dad, why did you and mom name me after something that's bad? Cooper: Well, we didn't. Young Murph: Murphy's law? Cooper: Murphy's law doesn't mean that something bad will happen. It means that whatever can happen will happen.

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Cooper: You're ruling out college for my son now? He's 15. Principal: Tom's score simply isn't high enough. Cooper: What's your waist line? What 32, 33 inseam? Principal: I'm not sure I see what you're getting at. Cooper: You're telling me it takes two numbers to measure your own ass but only one to measure my son's future?

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Cooper: You don't believe we went to the Moon? Ms. Hanley: I believe it was a brilliant piece of propaganda, that the Soviets bankrupted themselves pouring resources into rockets and other useless machines... Cooper: Useless machines? Ms. Hanley: ..and if we don't want to repeat of the excess and wastefulness of the 20th Century then we need to teach our kids about this planet, not tales of leaving it. Cooper: You know, one of those useless machines they used to make was called an MRI, and if we had one of those left the doctors would have been able to find the cyst in my wife's brain, before she died instead of afterwards, and then she would've been the one sitting here, listening to this instead of me. Which would've been a good thing because she was always the ... calmer one.

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Prof. Brand: We must confront the reality that nothing in our solar system can help us. Cooper: Now you need to tell me what your plan is to save the world. Prof. Brand: We're not meant to save the world. We're meant to leave it, and this is the mission you were trained for. Cooper: I've got kids, Professor. Prof. Brand: Then get out there and save them. We must reach far beyond our own lifespans. We must think not as individuals but as a species. We must confront the reality of interstellar travel.

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Cooper: It is hard leaving everything... my kids, your father... Brand: We're gonna be spending a lot of time together. Cooper: We should learn to talk. Brand: And when not to? … Just being honest. Cooper: I don't think you need to be that honest. Hey TARS, what’s your honesty Parameter? TARS: Ninety percent. Cooper: Ninety percent? TARS: Absolute honesty isn’t always the most diplomatic, nor the safest form of communication with emotional beings. Cooper: Okay. Ninety percent it is, Dr. Brand.

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Doyle: The lost communications came through. Brand: How? Doyle: The relay on this side cached them. Years of basic data, no real surprises. Miller's site has kept pinging thumbs up, as has Mann... but Edmunds went down three years ago. Brand: Transmitter failure? Doyle: Maybe. He was sending thumbs up right till it went dark. Romilly: Miller still looks good? [Doyle nods, and Romilly begins drawing on a whiteboard] She's coming up fast ... with one complication: the planet is much closer to Gargantua than we thought. Cooper: Gargantua? Doyle: A very large black hole. Miller's and Dr. Mann's planets orbit it. Brand: And Miller's is right on the horizon? Romilly: A basketball on the hoop. Landing there takes us dangerously close. A black hole that big has a huge gravitational pull. Cooper: Look, I can swing around that neutron star and decelerate— Brand: It's not that, it's time. That gravity will slow our clock compared to Earth. Drastically. Cooper: How bad? Romilly: Every hour we spen

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Cooper: Ready? CASE: Yup. Cooper: Don't say much, do you? CASE: TARS talks plenty for both of us.

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Cooper: We wanna get down fast, don't we? Brand: Actually we want to get there in one piece. Cooper: Hang on.

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Brand: I told you to leave me. Cooper: And I told you to get your ass back here! Difference is, only one of us was thinking about the mission— Brand: Cooper, you were thinking about getting home — I was trying to do the right thing! Cooper: Tell that to Doyle. [pause] How long to drain, CASE? CASE: Forty-five to an hour. Cooper: The stuff of life, huh? What's this gonna cost us, Brand? Brand: A lot. Decades. Cooper: What happened to Miller? Brand: Judging by the wreckage, she was broken up by a wave shortly after impact. Cooper: How could the wreckage still be together after all these years? Brand: Because of the time slippage. On this planet's time, she landed here just hours ago. She might have died only minutes ago. CASE: The data Doyle collected was just the initial status, echoing endlessly. Cooper: We're not prepared for this, Brand. You're a bunch of eggheads without the survival skills of a boy-scout troop. Brand: We got this far on our brains, farther than any humans in histor

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Cooper: We no longer have the fuel to visit both prospects, so, we have to choose. Romilly: But how? They’re both promising. Edmunds’ data is better, but Dr. Mann is the one still transmitting, so… Brand: We’ve no reason to suspect Endmunds’s data would have soured. His world has key elements to sustain human life. Cooper: As does Dr. Mann’s. Brand: Cooper, this is my field. And I really believe Edmunds’ is the better prospect. Cooper: Why? Brand: Gargantua, that’s why. Look at Miller’s planet. Hydrocarbons, organics, yes, but no life. Sterile. We’ll find the same thing on Mann’s. Romilly: Because of the black hole? Brand: Murphy’s Law. Whatever can happen will happen. Accident is the first building block of evolution. But when you’re orbiting a black hole not enough can happen. It sucks in asteroids and comets, other events which would otherwise reach you. We need to go further afield. Cooper: You once said that Dr. Mann was the best of us. Brand: He’s remarkable, we’re only here beca

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Cooper: [As he tries to reconfigure TARS personality settings] Humour 75%. TARS: Confirmed. Self destruct sequence in T minus 10… 9… Cooper: Let's make that 60%. TARS: 60%, confirmed. Knock, knock. Cooper: You want fifty-five?

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TARS: [As Cooper suddenly accelerates towards an out-of-control Endurance] Cooper, there's no point in using our fuel to chase- Cooper: Analyze the Endurance's spin. Brand: Cooper, what are you doing?! Cooper: Docking.

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CASE: This is not possible. Cooper: No. It's necessary.

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Cooper: What's your trust setting, TARS? TARS: Lower than yours, apparently.

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TARS: [Referencing Murphy's watch] Cooper, what if she never came back for it? Cooper: She will. She will. TARS: How do you know? Cooper: Because I gave it to her.

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TARS: Settings. General settings. Security settings. Cooper: Honesty, new setting: 95 percent. TARS: Confirmed. Additional customization? Cooper: Humor: 75 percent. TARS: Confirmed. Auto self-destruct T-minus 10, nine-- Cooper: Let's make that 60 percent. TARS: Sixty percent confirmed. Knock-knock. Cooper: You want 55? TARS: Is this really what it was like? It was never this clean, Slick. Heh. I don't care much for this pretending we're back where we started. I wanna know where we are. Where we're going. Nurse: Mr. Cooper. The family's all in there. Cooper: Yeah. Family? Nurse: Yeah, they all came out to see her. She's been in cryo-sleep for almost two years. Cooper: You told them I like farming. Cooper: It was me, Murph. I was your ghost. Old Murph: I know. People didn't believe me. They thought that I was doing it all myself. But... I knew who it was. [as Cooper holds his now elderly daughter's hands] Nobody believed me. But I knew you'd come back. Cooper: How? Old Murph: Because my