Ed Wood 1994 quotes, page 4

56 quotes · 9 characters
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Characters
Ed Wood Johnny Depp · 39 quotes
Bela Lugosi Martin Landau · 17 quotes
Mr. Reynolds Clive Rosengren · 7 quotes
Weiss Mike Starr · 6 quotes
Criswell Jeffrey Jones · 5 quotes
Reverend Lemon G.D. Spradlin · 5 quotes
Vampira Lisa Marie · 3 quotes

Most scenes together: Ed Wood & Bela Lugosi (10), Ed Wood & Mr. Reynolds (7), Ed Wood & Weiss (6)

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[Ed finishes shooting a scene.]

And cut! Print! We're moving on! That was perfect.

"Perfect?" Mister Wood, do you know anything about the art of film production?

Well, I like to think so!

That cardboard headstone tipped over. This graveyard is obviously phoney.

Nobody will ever notice that. Filmmaking is not about the tiny details. It's about the big picture.

The big picture?

Yes!

Then how about when the policemen arrived in daylight, but, now it's suddenly night?

What do you know? Haven't you heard of suspension of disbelief?

[Ed has hustled a group of reporters and photographers out of Bela's room at the sanitorium.]

Eddie, why did you chase them?

Ed

Bela, those people are parasites! They just wanna exploit you.

So what? Let them. Finally the press is interested again in Bela Lugosi. There is no such thing as bad press, Eddie. Man from New York even said he was going to put me on the front page — first celebrity ever to check into rehab.

[Ed is on the phone with Mr. Feldman at Warner Brothers Studios.]

So — we gonna be working together? [pauses to listen] Really? Worst film you ever saw. Well, my next one will be better. Hello. Hello?

[Ed's Baptist church sponsors dispute his directorial decisions.]

Mister Wood, do you know anything about the art of filmmaking?

Well, I like to think so!

[Ed, Dolores, and Bunny are at a professional wrestling show.]

Guess where I'm going next week.

I don't know. Where?

Me-hee-co. Guess what I'm doing when I get there.

Ed

I don't know — lie on a beach.

Wrong. I'm getting my first series of hormone injections. And when those girls kick in, they're gonna take out my organs and make me... a woman.

Ed

Are you serious?

It's something I've wanted to do for a long time. But it wasn't until I saw your movie that I realized I have to take action! Goodbye, penis!

Would you please keep it down?

[Ed, dressed in drag for a scene as Glenda, addresses his crew on the first day of filming.]

Everybody, we're about to embark on quite a journey: four days of hard work. But when it's over, we'll have a picture that'll entertain, enlighten, and maybe even move millions of people.

[In the waiting room, Ed strikes up a conversation with a girl in an angora sweater.]

Don't you think angora has a certain tactile sensuality lacking in all other fabrics?

Kathy O'Hara

Well, I suppose so. It is awfully expensive.

Ed

Well, it's made from specially-bred rabbits that live in the Himalayas.

Kathy

Say, what are you — an angora wholesaler?

[On the set, Ed has taken to wearing women's clothing full-time.]

But, Georgie, I'm proud! I wrote, directed, and starred in it, just like Orson Welles did in "Citizen Kane".

Yeah? Well, Orson Welles didn't wear angora sweaters, did he?

[The Baptists object to Tor Johnson's speaking part.]

What'd you give him all the lines for? He's unintelligible!

Ed

Look, Lugosi's dead and Vampira won't talk. I had to give somebody the dialogue!

That is no answer!

[The Baptists object to Tor Johnson's speaking part.]

Why does he have all the lines? The man's unintelligible!

Ed

Look, Lugosi's dead and Vampira won't talk. I had to give somebody the dialogue!

[To secure funding from a Baptist church, Ed's cast and crew must get baptized in a swimming pool.] [whispering]

Why couldn't we do this in the church?

[whispering]

Because Brother Tor wouldn't fit in the sacred tub.