Quotes
Detective Susan Avery: Mr. Mill, have you been going to detective school?
Griffin Mill: 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?
Share this[Levy suggested that writers could be eliminated and any old news story could provide a movie story idea]
Bonnie Sherow: "Further Bond Losses Push Dow Down 7.15." I see Connery as Bond.
Share thisGriffin Mill: 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.
Share this[Asked to look at police mug shots]
Griffin Mill: 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.!
Share thisDelivery Boy: Hey, you're Martin Scorsese!
Alan Rudolph: No, but I know Harvey Keitel.
Delivery Boy: Of course you do! Hey, I loved Cape Fear!
Share thisGriffin Mill: Can we talk about something other than Hollywood for a change? We're educated people.
Share thisGriffin Mill: It lacked certain elements that we need to market a film successfully.
June: What elements?
Griffin Mill: Suspense, laughter, violence. Hope, heart, nudity, sex. Happy endings. Mainly happy endings.
June: What about reality?
Share thisGriffin Mill: Let's go to Acapulco.
June: Is that the thing to do?
Griffin Mill: It's *a* thing to do.
Share thisGriffin Mill: This is a red wine glass. Can I have my water in a water glass?
Share thisLarry Levy: I'll be there right after my AA meeting.
Griffin Mill: Oh Larry, I didn't realise you had a drinking problem.
Larry Levy: Well I don't really, but that's where all the deals are being made these days.
Share thisAndy Civelli: Griffin, you move in mysterious ways, but I like it! I like it!
Share thisJune: I like words and letters, but I'm not crazy about complete sentences.
Share thisGriffin Mill: No stars, just talent.
Share thisDetective Susan Avery: So you're saying if you drove a shitty car, you would park in the parking lot.
Griffin Mill: No, I'm saying if I were driving a shitty car, I would be a dead man.
Share this[after watching The Bicycle Thief]
Griffin Mill: 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!
Share thisMalcolm McDowell: If you've got something to say about me; say it to my face, not behind my back.
Share thisWalter Stuckel: It is my job to keep this very, very, very, very QUIET!
Share thisGriffin Mill: OK, give me your pitch.
Walter Stuckel: 25 words or less? OK, here goes. Movie exec calls writer, writer's girlfriend tells him 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. Exec is in deep shit. What do you think?
Griffin Mill: That was more than 25 words.
Share this[first lines]
Man 1: [voiceover] Quiet on the set.
Woman: [voiceover] OK, everybody, quiet on the set.
Man 2: [voiceover] Scene 1, take 10. Marker.
Man 1: [voiceover] And - action!
Share thisJune: We can't hurry things any more than we can stop them.
Share thisGriffin Mill: Just... stop with the postcards...
David Kahane: [enraged] I don't WRITE POSTCARDS! I WRITE SCRIPTS!
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