:16:02
I knew there was
something wrong with them.
:16:05
They're dead, they're finished.
:16:08
There was a time
when they had the eyes of the world.
:16:12
But that wasn't good enough.
They had to have the ears, too.
:16:16
So they opened their big mouths
and out came talk, talk, talk!
:16:21
That's where the popcorn business
comes in. Buy it to plug your ears.
:16:25
Look at them in the front offices,
the masterminds!
:16:29
They smashed the idols!
:16:31
The Fairbankses,
the Gilberts, the Valentinos!
:16:34
Who've we got now? Some nobody.
:16:37
Don't blame me. I'm just a writer.
:16:40
You are? Writing words,
words, more words.
:16:44
You've made a rope of words
and strangled this business.
:16:47
But there's a microphone
to catch the last gurgles,
:16:50
and Technicolor to photograph
the swollen tongue.
:16:52
- Sh! You'll wake up the monkey.
- Get out! Max.
:16:57
Next time
I'll bring my autograph album.
:17:00
Or maybe some cement
and ask for your footprint.
:17:07
It's OK, OK. I'm going.
:17:09
Just a minute, you.
You're a writer, you said.
:17:13
- Why?
- Are you or not?
:17:16
- That's what's on my Guild card.
- And you have written pictures?
:17:21
I sure have. Want a list of my credits?
:17:24
I want to ask you something.
Come in here.
:17:27
Last one was about
Okies in the Dust Bowl.
:17:30
You'd never know
because on screen
:17:32
the whole thing
played on a torpedo boat.
:17:43
Intimate, isn't it?
:17:47
The wind gets in that pipe organ.
I ought to take it out.
:17:51
I'd teach it a better tune.
:17:53
Young man, tell me something.
:17:55
How long is a movie script
these days? How many pages?
:17:59
Depends whether
it's "Donald Duck" or "Joan of Arc".