Guillermo del Toro's Cabinet of Curiosities (TV Series)

The Viewing (2022)

Peter Weller: Lionel Lassiter

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• Lionel Lassiter : There's an old Zen koan. It goes like this, "Everyone has two lives, the second life begins the moment you realize, that all along, you only had one."

• Lionel Lassiter : We're talking about music. Music, man. All art can only aspire to music.

• Charlotte Xie : Is it gonna be like this place?

  Lionel Lassiter : Only in it's striving for innate transcendence.

• Lionel Lassiter : The item which I have chosen to show you, was acquired with the utmost difficulty, at the greatest expense.

• Lionel Lassiter : I collect beyond the known.

• Lionel Lassiter : You have no idea how much money it takes to be this rich.

• Lionel Lassiter : Every night is made a little bit brighter by the presence of your musical talent. And your presence here has made this night so much brighter to me.

• Randall Roth : Am I really taking a creative risk here, or is the machinery of my industry all that matters?

  Lionel Lassiter : Perhaps control of the machinery is your real ambition.

• Lionel Lassiter : But with a gentle push someone like me can make people flow.

• Lionel Lassiter : The architect is no one whom anyone has ever heard of or ever will.

• Lionel Lassiter : Money is irrelevant. It's only the pursuit of my tastes. And there is no accounting for taste.

• Lionel Lassiter : As a younger man, before World War II, I had already invested heavily in stockpiling uranium.

  Charlotte Xie : Isn't that a violation of international law or something?

  Lionel Lassiter : Not for me.

• Lionel Lassiter : Everything I have is hers. The way I see it. I serve her.

• Lionel Lassiter : [chuckles quietly]  Voting. Yikes.

• Lionel Lassiter : [snorts cocaine]  Well, you gotta stop living in the past, Daddy-o.

• Randall Roth : Everyone has a black-hole inside of them. What I want is for mine to stop eating everything up all the time.

  Lionel Lassiter : [plays laugh track]  You are really harshing my mellow, man.

• Lionel Lassiter : I have seen things that will make you shit your mind, kemosabe.

• Charlotte Xie : I wouldn't go that far.

  Lionel Lassiter : No, let's go that far.

• Lionel Lassiter : [sighs contentedly]  I couldn't be more satisfied with this room.

• Lionel Lassiter : By the way Randall, I hope you don't take offense that I didn't ask you to make the music for the Sandpiper House.

• Lionel Lassiter : It's impossible to find music that really suited the dynamic of this structure, so I had it custom made in Italy.

  Charlotte Xie : By who?

  Lionel Lassiter : A gentleman from Venice by the name of Massimo Contini. He works exclusively for me now.

  Charlotte Xie : So, you can't buy this album in stores?

  Lionel Lassiter : Never.

• Targ Reinhhard : I've never touched the stuff. It could dull my psychic abilities.

  Lionel Lassiter : Well, I'm sorry Targ. I thought your daddy let you out alone tonight.

• Lionel Lassiter : Let yourselves go. Be in service to Doctor Zahra's brilliance.

• Lionel Lassiter : If anything, I'm trying to get you to only function at your peak capability. Each one of you has been precisely chosen tonight to take part in this wondrous moment. We need to be in sync. Like a music group, Randall.

• Lionel Lassiter : I have seen things that would make you shit your mind, kemosabe.