The Cove Movie Quotes
Richard O'Barry
The thing that turned me around was the death of Flipper, of Cathy. She was really depressed. I could feel it. I could see it. And she committed suicide in my arms. That's a very strong word, suicide. But you have to understand dolphins and other whales are not automatic air breathers, like we are. Every breath they take is a conscious effort. And so they can end their life whenever life becomes too unbearable by not taking the next breath. And it's in that context I use the word suicide. She did that. She swam into my arms, looked me right in the eye, and took a breath... and didn't take another one.
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Richard O'Barry
If you aren't an activist you're an inactivist
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John Potter
It sometimes amazes me that the only language which has been extensively taught to dolphins is a version of American Sign Language, which, of course, you use your hands, so you have all these wonderful signals, and people use their hands to give messages to dolphins. And this somehow kind of misses the point because dolphins don't have hands, so this is inherently a very one-way process. And it's this anthropomorphic, "We have something to teach them or control them," and perhaps we ought to be looking at what they can give to us.
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Mandy-Rae Cruikshank
When you're out swimming in the ocean and you have whales and dolphins come by you, it is one of the most incredible experiences ever. It's so humbling that this wild creature would come up and be so interested in you. It's... It's unbelievable, really.
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Hardy Jones
Every cetacean known to man is endangered just by going anywhere near Japan.
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John Potter
As a scientist, I'm trained to recognize intelligence through objective measures... tool use, cognitive processes, and so on. As a human being, when I see a dolphin looking at me and his eyes tracking me and I lock eyes with that animal, there's a human response that makes it undeniable that I'm connecting with an intelligent being.
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Richard O'Barry
There are lots of groups here in Japan: World Wildlife Fund, Greenpeace, International Fund for Animal Welfare. They all make hundreds of millions of dollars between them. This is the largest slaughter of dolphins in the wold. Where are they?
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Richard O'Barry
Here in Taiji, you can go to the Whale Museum and watch the dolphin show and eat a dolphin at the same time. They sell dolphin and whale meat right in the dolphinarium!
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Louie Psihoyos
There is a kind of collective horror and deep disturbance when you see the footage. It's mind-boggling. They're doing exactly like they did with the large whales. Just slaughtering everyone they can get.
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Richard O'Barry
A dolphin in the right spot can make a million dollars a year. There's a lot of money in it. If you get in their way - and I get in their way - it can be very, very dangerous.
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[last lines]
Richard O'Barry
Right now, I'm focusing on that one little body of water, where that slaughter takes place. If we can't stop that, if we can't fix that, forget about the bigger issues.
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