Reed Rothchild quotes from Boogie Nights (1997)

Reed Rothchild

Let's go get some of that Saturday night beaver.

Dirk Diggler

Look, man, all we need is the tapes, alright?

No. You don't get the tapes until you've paid.

Dirk Diggler

In our situation, that doesn't make any **** sense.

Reed Rothchild

Look, we cannot pay for the tapes unless we take the tapes to the record company and get paid.

Dirk Diggler

Hello? Exactly.

That's not an MP, that's a YP, your problem. Come up with the money, or forget it.

Reed Rothchild

Okay, now you're talking above my head. I don't know all of this industry jargon, YP, MP, whatever. All I know is that I can't get a record contract, we cannot get a record contract unless we take those tapes to the record company. And granted, the tapes themselves are a uh um oh, you own them, all right, but the magic that is on those tapes. That **** heart and soul that we put onto those tapes, that is ours and you don't own that. Now I need to take that magic and get it over the record company. And they're waiting for us, we were supposed to be there a half hour ago. We look like assholes, man.

Dirk Diggler

Let me explain to him in simple arithmetic. One, two three! Because you don't ****in' get it, Burt! You give us the tapes, we get the record contract, we come back and give you your ****in' money. Have you heard the tapes? Have you even heard them? We're guaranteed a record deal. Our stuff is that good!

Now I get it. Now I understand. You want it to happen...but it's not going to happen. Because it's a Catch-22.

Dirk Diggler

What the **** does that mean? What is a Catch-22, Burt?

Catch-22, gentlemen. Think about it.

Dirk Diggler

You know what I'm thinking about, man? I'm thinking about kicking some ****in' ass!