How did things ever get so far? I don't know. It was so unfortunate and so unnecessary.
12 seconds sound clip from the The Godfather (1972) movie soundboard.
You can hear this line at 02:07:33 in the Blu-ray version of the movie.
Quote context
[...]
- And also the other heads of the five families from New York and New Jersey.
- Carmine Cuneo from the Bronx.
- From Brooklyn, Philip Tattaglia.
- And from Staten Island we have with us Victor Strachi.
- How did things ever get so far? I don't know. It was so unfortunate and so unnecessary.
- Tattaglia lost a son and I lost a son.
- We're quits, and if Tattaglia agrees then I'm willing to let things go on the way they were before.
- We are all grateful to Don Corleone for calling this meeting.
- We all know him as a man of his word. A modest man. He'll always listen to reason.
- Yes, Don Barzini. He's too modest.
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