Jurassic Park III (2001)

Laura Dern: Ellie

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Quotes 

• Charlie : [Making toy herbivores fight]  Rawr! Rawr Rawr!

  Dr. Grant : Actually, Charlie, those are herbivores. They really wouldn't be interested in fighting with each other, but these ones here are carnivores, and they really like fighting with each other. They'll use their teeth and claws to rip each other's throats out.

  Ellie Degler : Alan, he's three. Let's wait till he's five.

• Ellie Degler : So what were you doing?

  Dr. Grant : Evolving.

• Ellie Degler : So, what are you working on now?

  Dr. Alan Grant : Raptors, mostly.

  Ellie Degler : [sardonically]  My favorite.

  Dr. Alan Grant : Do you remember the sounds they made?

  Ellie Degler : I try not to.

  Dr. Alan Grant : Ellie, all our theories about raptor intelligence, what they were capable of... we weren't even close.

  Ellie Degler : Tell me.

  Dr. Alan Grant : Well, we did cranium scans of a fossil skull. We found what looks like a very sophisticated resonating chamber.

  Ellie Degler : Wait a second. So we were right? I mean, they had the ability to vocalize?

  Dr. Alan Grant : I'm convinced that's the key to their social intelligence.

  Ellie Degler : Which explains why they could work together as a team.

  Dr. Alan Grant : Yeah, and coordinate their attacks so their prey wouldn't know what was going on.

  Ellie Degler : They could talk to each other.

  Dr. Alan Grant : To a degree we never imagined. Ellie, they were smart. They were smarter than dolphins or whales. They were smarter than primates.

• Hannah : Ellie?

  Ellie Degler : Yeah.

  Hannah : It's Tom again. He says he has to talk to you about the last chapter.

  Ellie Degler : Just tell him I'm not gonna lose the Jack Horner quote.

  [to Alan] 

  Ellie Degler : My editor thinks he's a paleontologist.