The Newsroom (TV Series)
Amen (2012)
Jeff Daniels: Will McAvoy
Quotes
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Nina Howard : Hey, Will... We're journalists.
Will McAvoy : I wish you hadn't said that.
Nina Howard : What?
Will McAvoy : Everything would've been cool if you hadn't said that. You just talk too much.
Nina Howard : You have a problem with me calling myself a journalist? Only the elite few who cover stories nobody cares about get to call themselves...
Will McAvoy : [cuts her off] I've got a guy on my staff who got hit in the head with a glass door Thursday. His forehead wouldn't stop bleeding, but he wouldn't go to a doctor 'cause I got another guy who got beat up covering Cairo. And the first guy wouldn't see a doctor until the second guy saw a doctor. I've got a producer who ran into a locked door 'cause he felt responsible for the second guy. I've got an 18-year-old kid risking his life halfway around the world and the AP who sent him there hasn't slept in three days. I've got 20-somethings who care about teachers in Wisconsin. I've got a grown woman who has to subtract with her fingers staying up all night trying to learn economics from a PhD who could be making 20 times the money three miles downtown. THEY'RE journalists.
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Nina Howard : Tough-ass speech, but you're not gonna win.
Will McAvoy : I don't care. I'm just a middle-aged man who never lived up to his potential. You don't want to be on the wrong end of me if I ever do.
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Will McAvoy : Come after me all you want, Nina. Come after me every day. Look through my garbage, invent things out of thin air - that's what you're paid for. But you touch my staff, and you are walking into a world of hurt. I have an hour of prime time every night, and I will re-dedicate my life to ruining yours. I also want you to send a message up the chain of whatever back room machinery that's driving this that if I so much as smell Leona Lansing's perfume on any of this, I'm going to make a meal out of both of you, and I'm not going to stop until I'm done. Look at me... and see that I'm dead serious.
