Clearcut (1991)

Michael Hogan: Bud Rickets

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Quotes 

• Arthur : Do you see?

  [looking over the forest] 

  Bud Rickets : No.

  Arthur : You will bloody well hang here until you do. And then you can watch your goddamn machines cut it all down!

• Bud Rickets : Victory? Victory? What's all this talk about victory? Did our baseball team play today? Did we win? I mean, I should know, I coach the darn team!

  [to reporters] 

• Bud Rickets : Bud Rickets, filthy industrialist. Where's your halo Mr. Maguire?

  Peter Maguire : I keep it in my briefcase, which is on your road where your machinery is destroying the forest.

• Bud Rickets : What happened to the last guy you lost a court case to?

  Peter Maguire : The Inuit fed him to their dogs.

• Bud Rickets : You've got to clean it first.

  [referring to Arthur's fish] 

  Arthur : It's Indian style. Scales, guts and all.

  Bud Rickets : It's not Indian, that's lazy.

• Bud Rickets : You stop using paper products and we'll stop cutting your trees.

  Peter Maguire : You commit crimes, admit it!

  Bud Rickets : And you reap the benefits, just admit it!

• Bud Rickets : He's a man of action our Arthur. We understand each other. I don't know where you fit. Choosing your side so conscientiously. Can we call this a ah... miscalculation?

  [mocking Peter] 

• Arthur : Do you hear your trees? They're crying.

  [sneaking up on Peter and Bud] 

  Bud Rickets : Indian give me the creeps. It's like they know something we don't.

• Bud Rickets : There's things here I don't understand, so enlighten me. Tell me what my mill has destroyed. Tell me about your traditional way of life. Tell me about freezing to death, that was tradition wasn't it? Tell me about your wars. Tell me about your old people. Tell me about your children, starving winter after winter after winter. Tradition! The mill has given you roads, transportation, medical services, stores, schools, decent houses, sewage, plumbing...

  Arthur : Reserve plumbing don't work.

  Bud Rickets : Well get it fixed chief, it's free! Put your bottle on the table and pick up the phone.

  Arthur : Phones don't work.

  Bud Rickets : Oh, so it's the phones too, is it?

  Arthur : Busted. Everything's busted.

  Bud Rickets : Oh poor Arthur. Poor, poor Arthur.

• Bud Rickets : You're starting to look like one of them, you like that?

  [to Peter] 

• Peter Maguire : He's going to kill you.

  Bud Rickets : Well, lucky you. You get to defend in another losing cause. What'll the government pay for our Arthur's defense? Another installment on your Porsche? The government will want it to look good. Justice seem to be done, that ought to be worth a nice buck.

• Regional Police Officer #1 : Where's the other Indian, what happened to him?

  [referring to Arthur] 

  Bud Rickets : He drowned.

  Peter Maguire : But he can be back.