:21:03
- Why?
- I just wondered.
:21:06
- Just wondered what?
- Why?
:21:09
- Why what?
- Why you have to go out... there.
:21:14
- I don't have to. I want to.
- Is it the money?
:21:18
80%of it'll go for taxes.
:21:20
Then why? Why, if you're the most
successful young director in the theatre...
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The theatre. The theatre.
:21:27
What rules say the theatre exists
only within some ugly buildings
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crowded into one
square mile of New York City?
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Or London, Paris or Vienna?
:21:38
Listen, Junior, and learn.
:21:40
Do you wanna know what the theatre is?
A flea circus. Also opera.
:21:46
Also rodeos, carnivals, ballets,
:21:49
Indian tribal dances, Punch and Judy,
a one-man band - all theatre.
:21:53
Wherever there's magic and make-believe
and an audience, there's theatre.
:21:59
Donald Duck, Ibsen and The Lone Ranger.
:22:02
Sarah Bernhardt and Poodles Hanneford.
Lunt and Fontanne, Betty Grable.
:22:06
Rex the Wild Horse, Eleonora Duse -
all theatre.
:22:10
You don't understand them all.
You don't like them all.
:22:13
Why should you? The theatre's for everybody
- you included - but not exclusively.
:22:18
So, don't approve or disapprove.
:22:20
It may not be your theatre,
but it's theatre for somebody, somewhere.
:22:24
I just asked a simple question.
:22:27
And I shot my mouth off.
:22:30
Nothing personal, Junior. No offence.
:22:33
It's just that there's so much bushwa in
this ivory greenroom they call the theatre,
:22:38
sometimes it gets up around my chin.
:22:41
But Hollywood. You mustn't stay out there.
:22:45
- It's only a one-picture deal.
- So few come back.
:22:50
I read George Jean Nathan every week.
:22:53
- Also Addison DeWitt.
- Every day.
:22:58
You didn't have to tell me.