Family Plot
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- Mm-hmm.
- Dollars?

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Dollars, George!
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So, when he got to Family Plot,
to get over a $100,000 was amazing.

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And he didn't want to pay Al Pacino
whatever his price was then.

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And he'd just done Serpico
and The Godfather, so he was big stuff.

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And so, then they were going to go
to the next on the list.

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I certainly wasn't the next on the list.
I was about 15th on the list.

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But he jumped right away.
He jumped over everybody.

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And he called my agent,
and he said, you know,

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(Imitating Hitchcock) "I liked Bruce.
I think he would be good for the film."

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And so I went, and I saw him.
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I said, "Why would you
want me to play this part?"

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He said, "Bruce, I-I never
know what you're gonna do next."

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"I know that the frame is perfect."
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"I know the shot works perfectly."
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"All I want is to be entertained.
I make entertaining movies."

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My feet are killing me.
These damn six-inch heels.

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I happen to like tall women.
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Everybody likes tall women.
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In fact, everyone's going to be
looking for a tall woman.

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Aside from complaining a lot, what have
your been doing with yourself lately?

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Oh, nothing much.
Picking up a ransom. That sort of thing.

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(Woman) While I was in Vienna,
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I was shooting a movie
called Crime and Passion

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for Ivan Passer with Omar Sharif.
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And I was offered two pictures.
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One was the W C Fields
biographical film

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and Hitchcock's film.
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And, of course,
there was no... choice.

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You know, working with Hitchcock
was going to be the thrill of a lifetime.

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But I wanted the other part.
(Chuckling)

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I wanted the Barbara Harris part,
I wanted to be the kind of clairvoyant

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who really wasn't all so clairvoyant.
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I imagined her. I thought she could have
a Southern accent and a low blouse.


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