Betty Schaefer: Are you hungry?Joe Gillis: Hungry? After 12 years in a Burmese jungle, I'm starving, Lady Agatha, starving for a white shoulder.Betty Schaefer: Philip you're mad.Joe Gillis: Thirsting for the coolness of your lips.
We don't need two cars, we have a car. Not one of those cheap new things made of chromium and spit, an Isotta-Fraschini. Have you ever heard of Isotta-Fraschini? All handmade. Cost me $28,000.
Yes, this is Sunset Blvd., Los Angeles, California. It's about 5 o'clock in the morning. That's the homicide squad, complete with detectives and newspaper men.
Betty Schaefer: Oh, I'm sorry, Mr. Gillis, but I just didn't think it was any good. I found it flat and trite.Joe Gillis: Exactly what kind of material do you recommend? James Joyce? Dostoyevsky?Betty Schaefer: I just think that pictures should say a little something.Joe Gillis: Oh, one of the message kids. Just a story won't do. You'd have turned down Gone With the Wind.Sheldrake: No, that was me. I said, "Who wants to see a Civil War picture?"