Cross
Gittes. You're dealing with a disturbed woman who's just lost her husband. I don't want her taken advantage of. Sit down.
Gittes
What for?
Cross
You may think you know what you're dealing with, but believe me, you don't. [Gittes smiles] Why is that funny?
Gittes
It's what the district attorney used to tell me in Chinatown.
Cross
Yeah? Was he right? Exactly what do you know about me? Sit down.
Gittes
Mainly that you're rich, and too respectable to want your name in the newspapers.
Cross
'Course I'm respectable. I'm old. Politicians, ugly buildings, and whores all get respectable if they last long enough.
