Hooper (1978)

Robert Klein: Roger Deal

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• Roger Deal : As you remember, it's a giant earthquake, you know, with fires and explosions, buildings falling everywhere, chaos, terror, and you'll be driving through it. Yeah, it has a nice grayness, like "La Strada".

• Roger Deal : Look, you're the stunt gaffer. So, gaff.

• Max Berns : It's only a damn movie, anyhow, for God's sake.

  Roger Deal : Only a movie? I want you to call the studio brass! I want you to tell them and their stockholders and the distributors and the bank, that it's only a movie! Will you do that Max? I want you to tell them, "Forget about all your money, it's only a movie."

• Roger Deal : You think I'm a tyrannical egomaniac. Well, maybe it's true. A film is a tiny piece of time and we *captured* it. I only do it for one reason. To make the best movie I can. Because I'm a pro.

• Roger Deal : Remember, people, no one ever won an Oscar for second best. So, get ready!