:51:00
- Who wrote Last Tango?
- Beats me.
:51:02
There. My God, Culley,
neither of us knows who wrote Last Tango.
:51:05
I hated it.
:51:06
I never remember the names of people
that perpetrate something I hate.
:51:10
But that's the trouble.
Don't you see? I hated it, too.
:51:13
- In my opinion, a discretionary judgment.
- But we're wrong, Culley.
:51:17
That's what they want.
That's where it's at.
:51:20
It's been my experience that every time
I think I know where it's at...
:51:24
...it's usually somewhere else.
:51:26
You know as well as I do,
if we're going to stay in business...
:51:30
...if we're to remain filmmakers
in any sense of the word...
:51:33
...we must shake off
the rusty shackles of the past...
:51:35
...observe the present for what it is
and the future for what it will become.
:51:39
Like it or not.
Then we must make our creative comment.
:51:43
Felix, as far as you know,
have I ever lied to you?
:51:46
Never.
:51:47
I have, once or twice.
:51:50
About nothing that was too important.
:51:53
But now, the fact that I have admitted
that on occasion I have lied to you...
:51:59
...should convince you that
I'm a fairly honest man.
:52:01
And when it comes to the crunch...
:52:03
...that I can handle myself
with an acceptable degree of integrity.
:52:07
- Now, do you agree?
- Wholeheartedly.
:52:10
I'm going to give it to you straight,
old friend.
:52:13
You think I'm crazy.
:52:16
That's a little straighter than I intended.
:52:19
Maybe, Culley.
:52:22
I tried to kill myself four times,
hardly rational.
:52:25
$16 million plus for a flop.
Every cent I have in the world.
:52:28
Not what most people
would consider a very sane act.
:52:30
But insane?
:52:33
What if I'm right?
:52:35
If my vision is valid, Culley.
:52:38
Not so crazy. A more acceptable insanity.
:52:41
Culley, that's all beside the point.
:52:44
Sane and miserable, or insane and bursting
with creative joy and happiness.
:52:49
That's the point, Culley.
:52:52
In the end, who says he's sane,
therefore he should?
:52:55
Or he's insane, therefore he shouldn't?
:52:57
Culley, come on. Even if I'm wrong...