No Highway in the Sky (1951)

Ronald Squire: Sir John - Director

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• Sir John - Director : A boffin has to be a bit balmy to be a boffin. The line between genius and being just plain crackers is so thin, you never know which side you're on, nor when they've crossed it either. Tchaikovsky, I'm told, one day began to eat raw goldfish. And Molière discovered suddenly that he was better off standing on his head. Oh, we've had it here too. A fine time all the papers had once when one of our boffins started pinching girls in the park.

• Sir John - Director : All right. All right. I think that's all for today, gentlemen, except for finding out what film stars have to do with all this.

• Scientist : It is my opinion, Sir John, that even this trouble should not lead us to saying that all scientists are foolish men and not to be trusted.

  Sir John - Director : From what department did the gentleman come who took a bath in the public fountain - and subsequently conceived the brilliant idea of pinching girls in the park?

• Sir John - Director : I don't know whether Mr. Honey's right or wrong. Neither does Mr. Scott, any more than you do. There's no way of knowing. But that certainly doesn't mean we're going to back up Mr. Honey blindly. There's a matter called the truth which has to be served. It's a difficult thing, the truth, in a case like this. And the most I can promise you is we'll do our utmost to get at it. And we hope it's going to be on Mr. Honey's side.

  Monica Teasdale : Well, the truth is a good deal, anyway.

• Sir John - Director : It sounds discouragingly healthy to me.

• Monica Teasdale : I guess a thing like that has never happened before in the history of the world.

  Sir John - Director : Fortunately, no. Have you known Mr. Honey long?

  Monica Teasdale : No. I just met him last night, right after we took off. He came to tell me that he thought we were in trouble.

  Sir John - Director : But why should he want to alarm you when there was nothing you could do about it?

  Monica Teasdale : He thought there was something I could do. He gave me his reasons, and they were good enough for me.

  Sir John - Director : Did you believe him? What did he do? Explain his theory?

  Monica Teasdale : He did. And I believed him.

  Sir John - Director : Did you understand it?

  Monica Teasdale : Not a word.

  Sir John - Director : Then I don't understand.

  Monica Teasdale : Oh, it isn't so hard, Sir John. I don't know much about mathematics, but I know when a man knows what he's talking about.