Jeremy Irons to Kevin Spacey: “And it’s certainly no different today than its ever been. 1637, 1797, 1819, ’37, ’57, ’84, 1901, ’07, ’29, 1937, 1974, 1987…Jesus, didn’t that fuck up me up good…’92, 97, 2000 and whatever we want to call this. It’s all just the same thing over and over, and we can’t help ourselves. And you and I can’t control it, or stop it, or even slow it. Or even ever-so-slightly alter it. We just react.”
The good stuff actually begins at 3:12.