Max Hoover [Repeated line to Coolidge.]
Is that what your psychiatrist told you?
Most-quoted character in Mulholland Falls (1996): in 9 of its 12 quotes
Most scenes with: Coolidge (3)
This isn't America, Jack. This is L.A.
More lines from Max Hoover
2 quotes Max Hoover Max Hoover [After beating FBI Special Agent McCafferty senseless…]
See? That's federal property. This isn't. This is L.A. This is my town. Out here you're a trespasser. Out here I can pick you up, burn your house, **** your wife, and kill your dog. And the only thing that'll protect you is if I can't find you. And I already found you.
Scenes with Max Hoover
6 scenes Hoover Jack Flynn?
Jack Flynn [hands him money]
Here ya go buddy, buy yourself a good time. [turning away] They'll let anybody in here.
Hoover [throwing bills down]
Mr. Flynn, I'm Maxwell Hoover. I'm with the Los Angeles Police Department.
Jack Flynn Oh, that means I get change back.
Hoover Let me tell ya how it goes, Elleroy. Ya meet somebody. Maybe they're a little off-center, but they tell ya the truth, and ya like 'em — ya like 'em for that. And one thing leads to another, and ya end up in bed. Now that's weak, Elleroy.
Max…
Hoover Now listen to me! Nobody gets hurt. Now, you go home, and you see your wife, and you're feelin' bad. Ya wanna unload it, ya wanna get it off your chest. So you tell 'er. And now she's hurt. Now that's weak, too, Elleroy. But it's also cruel. It's just goddam cruel.
Hoover [Hoover turns from Coolidge, but turns back again.]
Take a— here, here's something for ya. Here's something that doesn't cost ya twenty-five bucks an hour. You carry your own water, Elleroy. Ya understand? Carry your own water.
These tiny particles of matter, which are so small that no one's ever seen them - never - they contain enough energy to blow up this house, an entire city, every person on Earth. Now that is inconceivable.
Hoover General, I really don't think much about those things. I'd probably see too much.
What do you see?
Hoover People dead before their time.
That's the history of the world, Lieutenant. Some people die before their time so that others can live; it's the cornerstone of civilization, uh… war, religion, democracy… a hundred die so that a thousand may live.
Hoover Well, General, I take 'em one at a time.
Hall What'd Timms have to say?
Hoover He said the cornerstone of civilization was human sacrifice.
Hoover How come you got a hot dog in your mouth while you're threading the projector? Why do you eat while you're working? Why do you eat all the time?
It's all psychological, Max. I eat so I don't think about food.
Hoover Oh... so you eat so you don't think about food.
Yeah.
Hoover I don't want to butt into your business, but this psychiatrist, the guy you're going to, I think he's in worse shape than you are.
[riding in the car]
You know, I've been thinking, why is it we always sit in the same place? And why is it you're always the one that drives, Max?
Hoover I guess it's 'cause I got the keys.
