Shackleton (2002)
Nicholas Rowe: Thomas Orde-Lees
Quotes
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[arriving at Grytviken, South Georgia]
Thomas Orde-Lees : It feels like a pirate kingdom.
Sir Ernest Shackleton : They spend half their life on the ocean hunting the greatest creature on the planet, and the other half here, in this stench.
Expedition Member : What an extraordinary way to live.
Sir Ernest Shackleton : Not for these men. Madmen, criminals, outcasts of every kind the Calibans of the Pole. But they know the ice.
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[as they prepare to abandon the Endurance]
Thomas Orde-Lees : At least it'll make your book more exciting.
Sir Ernest Shackleton : Do you think so?