Tom Hardy: Max Rockatansky

Mad Max: Fury Road

Max Rockatansky

Max Rockatansky: You know, hope is a mistake. If you can't fix what's broken, you'll, uh... you'll go insane.

[first lines]
Max Rockatansky: [Narrating] My name is Max. My world is fire and blood. Once, I was a cop. A road warrior searching for a righteous cause. As the world fell, each of us in our own way was broken. It was hard to know who was more crazy... me... or everyone else.

Max Rockatansky: I am the one that runs from both the living and the dead. Hunted by scavengers, haunted by those I could not protect. So I exist in this wasteland, reduced to one instinct: survive.

Max Rockatansky: Here they come again... worming their way into the black matter of my brain. I tell myself, they cannot touch me. They are long dead.

Max Rockatansky: How much more can they take from me? They got my blood, now it's my car!

[Max proposes turning back and claiming the Citadel]
Keeper of the Seeds: I like this plan... we could start again, just like the old days!
Max Rockatansky: Look, it'll be a hard day.
[points to the horizon]
Max Rockatansky: But I guarantee you that a hundred and sixty days ride that way... there's nothing but salt.
[points back]
Max Rockatansky: At least that way we might be able to... together... come across some kind of redemption.
[He holds out his hand. After a pause, Furiosa takes it and clasps tight]

Max Rockatansky: [pointing at his Interceptor car being driven by a War Boy] That's mine!

[Max appears and heads off Furiosa, the Wives, and the Vuvalini. They brake to a stop, and Max shows Furiosa a map]
Max Rockatansky: [points to the Citadel] All right. This is your way home.
Imperator Furiosa: [incredulous] We go back?
Max Rockatansky: Mmm.
Toast: [incredulous] Back?
Max Rockatansky: Yeah.
The Dag: I thought you weren't insane anymore.

Imperator Furiosa: Hey. What's your name? What do I call you?
Max Rockatansky: Does it matter?
Imperator Furiosa: Fine. When I yell "fool," you drive out of here as fast as you can.

The Valkyrie: It'll take two weeks to skirt the wall of mountains.
Max Rockatansky: No. I suggest we go back the same way we came. Through the canyon.
Toast: [after a pause] It's open - we know that, right? He brought all his war parties through.
Max Rockatansky: So we take the War Rig and charge it right through the middle of them. We can decouple the tanker at the pass, shut it off behind us.
Keeper of the Seeds: [she and the Dag make the same gesture] Kaboom!
[laughter]

Nux: [sneaks up from behind Furiosa and strangles her with his chains] Filth! You traitored him!
The Splendid Angharad: [Furiosa holds up a knife to Nux's neck] No unnecessary killing!
Imperator Furiosa: This War Boy wants me dead!
The Splendid Angharad: We agreed! He's kamakrazee! He's just a kid at the end of his half-life!
Nux: No! I live, I die, I live again!
The Splendid Angharad: Hold him!
Capable: Tie him up!
Imperator Furiosa: Throw him out!
The Dag: Chuck him out!
Max Rockatansky: [to Furiosa] You got more friends.
Imperator Furiosa: Bullet Farmer. They're coming from the Bullet Farm.
Nux: It's over. You can't defy him!
[Furiosa spits at Nux, who spits back at Furiosa]
The Dag: Just watch us, mate!
Nux: He is the one who grabs the sun!
Toast: Look how slick he's fooled you, War Boy.
Capable: He's a lying old man.
Nux: By his hand, we'll be lifted up!
The Splendid Angharad: That's why we have his logo seared on our back! "Breeding stock"! "Battle fodder"!
Nux: No, I am awaited!
Capable: You're an old man's battle fodder, killing everyone and everything!
Nux: We're not to blame!
The Splendid Angharad: Then who killed the world?
[throws Nux off the War Rig]

Max Rockatansky: Hey - you need to take the War Rig half a klick down the track.
Imperator Furiosa: What if you're not back by the time the engines are cooled?
Max Rockatansky: [looks back, then shrugs] Well, you keep movin'.
[heads off towards the Bullet Farmer's gunfire]
Toast: What do you suppose he's gonna do?
Imperator Furiosa: Retaliate first.