Xander Berkeley credited as playing...
Donald Falk
- Donald Falk: [to Lily as she watches a performance artist] That's Peter the Performance artist as he likes to refer to it, self as show. Someday, with any luck somebody will put him out of his misery.
- Donald Falk: [during class, with the model] Look at her, Lily. What do you see?
- Lily Leonetti: [a little embarrassed] I see a face and a body.
- Donald Falk: What else?
- Lily Leonetti: I see a naked woman.
- Donald Falk: Right. The whole naked woman, not just parts.
- [taking her hand and guiding it on the paper]
- Donald Falk: Not just the head... include the breasts and the waist... leg. The whole thing. Get it all on the page. Just keep going over and over it, eventually...
- Gredin: [cuts in] Technique will give way to expression.
- Donald Falk: [straightening up] Thank you.
- Gredin: [drawing aggressively] Or expression will give way to expression.
- Donald Falk: You have some thoughts you'd like to share with us?
- Gredin: [looks from Donald to Lily] Me? Thoughts? Share? Nah, I couldn't possibly. I am here to listen and learn. Copy and conform.
- Donald Falk: [about Gredin's work] I mean from this masterpiece you've just created, it's obvious you transcended all 'need' for traditional form.
- Gredin: No.
- [tearing off the page]
- Gredin: This my fellow students was created out of no other tradtion, for that of boredom.
- [as classmates laugh, takes Lily's work and shows it around]
- Gredin: This... this is an A+. This is a perfect example of a hundred percent surrender to the process if tradtion! It's 'so' life-like, you could almost fuck it.
- [more laughter as he puts the board back]
- Donald Falk: [annoyed] Through? Can we get back to work?
- Lily Leonetti: [very mortified, gets up and leaves]
- Donald Falk: [under his breath, to Gredin] Jackass.
- Donald Falk: Take off your clothes.
- [Lily chuckles nervously]
- Donald Falk: Does that prospect frighten you?
- Lily Leonetti: Yeah, a little.
- Donald Falk: Then all the more reason to do it, right?