"Can you find the wolves in this picture?"
Director: Martin Scorsese
Cast: Leonardo DiCaprio, Robert De Niro, Lily Gladstone, Jesse Plemons, Tantoo Cardinal
Killers of the Flower Moon — Movie Quotes
Memorable Quotes
Can you find the wolves in this picture?
Context
Read aloud by Ernest from an illustrated book titled The Osage People early in the film.
Meaning
Acts as the thesis statement for the entire narrative, foreshadowing that the predators are hidden in plain sight among the community.
I love that money, sir.
Context
Spoken during Ernest’s initial conversation with Hale about his tastes and future in Fairfax.
Meaning
Candidly summarizes the base greed that overrides his humanity and steers his subsequent actions.
Expect you'd like to step into them shoes?
Context
Hale plants the idea in Ernest’s mind to marry Mollie and eliminate rival heirs.
Meaning
Illustrates how casually murder, opportunism, and inheritance were framed in daily dialogue.
He wants money. But he loves you.
Context
Mollie's sisters discuss Ernest's true intentions toward Mollie.
Meaning
An astute Osage observation of Ernest's dual nature, identifying the contradictory coexistence of genuine romantic affection and predatory opportunism.
See, this is a picture of the Tulsa race riot... It's not in the papers no more. It's just out. Just like that.
Context
Hale speaks to Ernest while showing him a newspaper photograph of the Tulsa Race Massacre.
Meaning
Explains that historical memory is short and that white America quickly forgets or buries atrocities against racial minorities, justifying Hale's sense of impunity.
There was no mention of the murders.
Context
Spoken by Martin Scorsese in a cameo as the radio show narrator reading Mollie’s real-life obituary during the epilogue.
Meaning
Highlights the historical erasure, complicity, and silence that shrouded the Osage Reign of Terror for nearly a century.
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