Man in the Chair

Flash Madden:
We never lose our gifts - only our opportunity to open them.

Flash Madden:
Oh boy. Does he have the best crew in town?

Mrs. Erskine:
Well, the oldest crew anyway.

Speed:
what?

Mrs. Erskine:
And the only one with a deaf sound mixer.

Speed:
I heard that.

[Flash jams the Gameboy of the projectionist into the projector, because it's about to explode]

Projectionist:
Oh, my god! My Gameboy!!

Flash Madden:
I'm sure that Santa will bring you a new one.

Nurse:
[Observing Mildred flirting with Flash in the rest home] Just the *thought* of you two bumpin' uglies messes me up.

Flash Madden:
[Muttering out loud in retro-themed movie theater, where "Touch of Evil" is playing] Charlton Heston playing a Mexican... Give me a friggin' break.

Flash Madden:
[Taunting a nearby audience member in the movie theater] Hey look, professor: I've MADE more movies than you've been to!

Mickey Hopkins:
I'm sorry, Flash. It's been too long. I've lost "the gift".

Flash Madden:
Ah, we never lose our gifts - only the opportunity to open them.

Mickey Hopkins:
That's pretty eloquent... for a gaffer.

Flash Madden:
Even us juicers have our moments, huh?

Cameron Kincaid:
[He and Flash are discussing cigars] But aren't Cuban cigars illegal in this country?

Flash Madden:
I consider it burning their crops!

Flash Madden:
[Speaking to Cameron] This country's famous for shittin' on their elderly. God help you if you don't have family... America's all about the young, the beautiful, the "Winner"! Ya' know, kid, in Europe, Asia, and especially Africa, the elderly are truly respected and they're almost TREASURED by the young people. Not here, though. Oh, no... We live in a throw-away society. If it breaks, throw it away. If a new one pops up, throw the old one away. If your puppy grows up to be a pain-in-the-ass dog, dump it. Someone will kill it. If your marriage isn't working, hey, divorce, throw it away, marry someone else. If you get sick of them, throw them away, too.

Flash Madden:
Nietzsche was full of sh*t, most of the time. Tolstoy said that Nietzsche was stupid and, uh... abnormal.

Cameron Kincaid:
So this place was like a clubhouse?

Flash Madden:
Yeah, sort of. But it was a tough club to get in to. No above-the-line wankers, that's for sure.

Cameron Kincaid:
"Above the line"?

Flash Madden:
Ah, producers, directors, writers, actors - *those* creeps.

Flash Madden:
The glitter ends at La Brea.

Taylor Moss:
I'm sorry that your life has been so, uh... joyless, so unhappy, so sad.

Flash Madden:
So yours is so fulfilled, right? Don't confuse activity with achievement. I've seen those pieces of sh*t, those celluloid abortions that you call movies.

Taylor Moss:
Well, they weren't all stinkers. Even won a couple of "brass dolls."

Cameron Kincaid:
Three of them...

Taylor Moss:
The picture business has been good to me.

Flash Madden:
Ah, cut the bullshit!

Taylor Moss:
That "bullshit" is the reason you're here.

Flash Madden:
[In the process of sabotaging a competitor's gas-powered generator] It's a myth that scripts are the lifeblood of Hollywood - it's gasoline.

Mickey Hopkins:
You don't write in this business - you RE-write.

Mickey Hopkins:
It's not the dialogue, it's the subtext I'm concerned about. The unspoken calendar of tensions, feelings, inner events - THAT'S what matters to me.

Cameron Kincaid:
Sounds cool!

Flash Madden:
[Taylor Moss wants to make changes to Cameron's film] You stick to your guns, kid. Don't let that prick Moss get you down.

Cameron Kincaid:
Yeah, they call it... "creative differences".

Flash Madden:
Yeah - you're creative, and he's different.

[Last lines]

Cameron Kincaid:
It's not the strength, but the duration of great sentiments that makes great men. Nietzsche got THAT one right.