"So the actor when he is
interviewed on Charlie Rose always tells what part it was that was
the breakthrough, when the reviewer praised him in The New York Times,
and that led to the phone call, and then the offers started rolling
in. It's the way it happens, he says."
"It's the way it happens,
when it happens."
"Now he is the enviable position
of being able to pick the parts he wants to play."
"Even people in life can't
do that!"
"The call doesn't come for
everyone, just because they put in ten years working as a waiter."
"I have this terrible ringing
sense of an . . . equilibrium."
"Secretly though, he is undermined
by the growing reality that he doesn't really like any of the parts.
None of them give him the chance to be--"
"Himself!"
"Balance? You mean you have
this sense of balance?"
"Fish think everything else
is in a fishtank, when they nose up to the side of the fishtank, see,
they think: my, my, what is going on out there?"
"Actually, fish can't look
straight ahead. And they probably therefore and for other reasons
can't think rationally."
"They thought I was just
being funny, but it was more than that. And when they got the feeling
it was more than that, they thought it wasn't funny anymore. Like
I had tricked them!"
"With me it was the other
way around. I was trying to be profound, and it was lucky I was at
least funny."
"They never figured out who
Reynolds was."
"Ah so, we have alot of work
to do."
"Why is that? That we have,
suddenly, so much work to do. Didn't we keep up, or what?"
"And no way to do it."
"It's the kind of work that
had to be done at the time."
"At least we are relieved
of the question of the public, the responsibility of the historical
record, the pyrotechnics of publishing and promotion, and other ugly
earthly duties!"
"It is the nature of life
to compound itself, and get further and further behind in the main
mission, it seems."
"Still, though, one swift
revelation and we might be out of here."
"First, though, we have to
figure out where we are."
"Do we have to figure out
where we are, first, to . . ."
"Getting out of here is equivalent
to figuring out where we are."
"Because . . ."
"If we knew where we were,
we would be there! It's not knowing where we are that makes us wonder
where we are."
"Don't everybody speak at
once."
"The girl walks out onto
the beach, toward the false sunset. She--"
"Steps off the plane, in
her blue and white polka dot dress, shielding her eyes from the sun
which has lit her up--"
"So I can see her from behind
the big plate glass window. At the airport. LaGuardia. It is August
29th, 1969 and this movie is just beginning."
"Fire when ready, Gridley!"
