From the screen adaptation of The Spy Who Came in From the Cold with Richard Burton.
"What the hell do you think spies are?
Moral philosophers measuring everything they do against the word of God or Karl Marx?
They're not.
They're just a bunch of seedy, squalid bastards like me.
Little men, drunkards, queers, henpecked husbands, civil servants playing cowboys and indians to brighten their rotten little lives.
Do you think they sit like monks in a cell, balancing right against wrong?
Yesterday I would have killed Mundt because I thought him evil and my enemy.
But not today, today he's evil and my friend."
I think that sums it up pretty well.
haha that's brilliant
It's a black & white film from 1965. I highly recommend it. I can see why Richard Burton was such a popular actor. I've noticed recently that there were a lot of films made in years gone by that were really deep and thought provoking. Not the dribble that comes out of Hollywood today.