1:37:00
Jesus Christ!
1:37:05
You could help me with Howard. He
listens to you. You're his best friend.
1:37:10
I'm tired of all this hysteria
about Howard Beale!
1:37:12
Every time you come back from seeing
somebody in your family...
1:37:14
you're in a morbid,
middle-aged mood!
1:37:17
And I'm tired of finding you on the
goddamn phone every time I turn around!
1:37:20
I'm tired of being an accessory
in your life!
1:37:23
I'm tired of pretending
to write this dumb book...
1:37:26
about my maverick days
in the early years of television.
1:37:29
Every goddamned executive fired
from a network in the last 20 years...
1:37:33
has written this dumb book about
the great early years of television!
1:37:37
And nobody wants a dumb, damn,
goddamn book...
1:37:40
about the early days of television!
1:37:42
Terrific. Maybe you can start
a whole new career as an actor!
1:37:48
After living with you for six months,
I'm turning into one of your scripts!
1:37:53
This is not a script.
1:37:56
There's some real, actual life
going on here.
1:38:00
I went to visit my wife today
because she's in a state of depression...
1:38:04
so depressed that my daughter
flew from Seattle to be with her...
1:38:07
and I feel lousy about that.
1:38:10
I feel lousy about the pain
that I've caused my wife and kids.
1:38:13
I feel guilty and conscious-stricken and
those things you think sentimental...
1:38:18
but which my generation called
simple human decency.
1:38:26
And I miss my home...
1:38:29
because I'm beginning
to get scared shitless.
1:38:31
Because all of a sudden it's closer to
the end than it is to the beginning...
1:38:35
and death is suddenly
a perceptible thing to me...
1:38:38
with definable features.
1:38:44
You're dealing with a man
that has primal doubts...
1:38:49
and you've got to cope with it.
1:38:52
I'm not some guy discussing male
menopause on the "Barbara Walters Show."
1:38:56
I'm the man that you presumably love.