Malcolm McDowell Griffin? Griffin! Hi, how are you? Listen: the next time you want to badmouth me, have the courage to do it to my face. You guys are all the same.
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Bonnie Sherow [After screening Habeas Corpus with its revised cast of famous actors and new happy ending]
How could you let him sell you out? What about truth? Reality?
Tom Oakley What about the way the old ending tested in Canoga Park? Everybody hated it. We reshot it. Now everybody loves it. That's reality.
Tom Oakley [Pitching Habeas Corpus]
The DA Breaks into the prison, runs down death row, but he gets there too late. The gas pellets have been dropped. She's dead. I tell you, there's not a dry eye in the house.
She's dead?
Tom Oakley She's dead. She's dead. Because that's the reality. The innocent die.
Who's the DA?
Tom Oakley No one.
No one?
Tom Oakley No stars on this project. We're going out on a limb on one.
Andy Civelli
You know, like unknown stage actors or maybe somebody English like what's-his-name.
Why?
Tom Oakley Why? This story is too damned important to risk being overwhelmed by personality. That's fine for action pictures, but this is special. We want real people. We don't want people coming with any preconceived notions.
Detective Susan Avery Mr. Mill, have you been going to detective school?
No, actually, we're doing a... a movie right now, called Lonely Room, and Scott Glenn plays a detective much like yourself.
Detective Susan Avery Is he a black woman?
[Asked to look at police mug shots]
Um, no. I - I mean, I - You're putting me in a terrible position here. I would - I would hate to get the wrong person arrested.
Detective Susan Avery Oh, please! This is Pasadena. We do not arrest the wrong person. That's L.A.!
It lacked certain elements that we need to market a film successfully.
What elements?
Suspense, laughter, violence. Hope, heart, nudity, sex. Happy endings. Mainly happy endings.
What about reality?
Let's go to Acapulco.
Is that the thing to do?
It's a thing to do.
So, what's the story?
Walter Stuckel Twenty-five words or less? Okay. Movie exec calls writer. Writer's girlfriend says he's at the movies. Exec goes to the movies, meets writer, drinks with writer. Writer gets conked and dies in four inches of dirty water. Movie exec is in deep shit. What do you think?
That's more than 25 words and it's bullshit.
I don't go to movies.
Why not?
Life is too short.
What took you so long?
Traffic was a bitch.
Larry Levy I'll be there right after my AA meeting.
Oh Larry, I didn't realize you had a drinking problem.
Larry Levy Well I don't really, but that's where all the deals are being made these days.
[after watching The Bicycle Thief]
Great movie, huh? So refreshing to see something like this after all these... cop movies and, you know, things we do. Maybe we'll do a remake of this!
Can we talk about something other than Hollywood for a change? We're educated people.
I like words and letters, but I'm not crazy about complete sentences.
I was just thinking what an interesting concept it is to eliminate the writer from the artistic process. If we could just get rid of these actors and directors, maybe we've got something here.