Day for Night

What is this - filmmaking? You call that a business? You've no morals. Everybody sleeps with everyone! What is it but a dirty lie. You call that normal? Filthy cinema - you're a plague on the world! You smell of filth! You'll pay for your sins! I despise you!

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Julie: Liliane ran off with the stuntman. Joelle: Does Alphonse know? Julie: I had to tell him. Joelle: With the stuntman? I'd drop a guy for a film. I'd never drop a film for a guy!

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Alphonse: [after being dumped by his girlfriend] I need money to go to a whorehouse. Ferrand: Come on Alphonse. Go back to your room, re-read the script, learn your lines, then try to sleep. Tomorrow we work. That's what matters. Don't be a fool. You're a very good actor. No one's private life runs smoothly. That only happens in the movies. No traffic jams, no dead periods. Movies go along like trains in the night. And people like you and me are only happy in our work. I'm counting on you.

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Ferrand: Tell him the car crash we're shooting tomorrow will be in American night. Julie: What is American night? Ferrand: A night scene shot in daylight with a special filter. Julie: Ah, day for night.

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Alexandre: How's your mother? Julie: Very good. I told her we were working together. She sends her love. Alexandre: Marvelous woman! Everyone in Hollywood loved her. Too bad she quit when she did. Julie: But she's still very busy. Alexandre: She hated the way we shoot movies - in bits and pieces! I remember escorting her to the premiere of her first big Hollywood movie. A fantastic evening! When the film ended, she sat there, then turned to me and said: "I did all that? All I remember is the waiting." Julie: It's so true!

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Ferrand: Quiet! A full rehearsal. Let's go, Séverine. Séverine: "I don't understand you Alexander! You're - " Alexandre: "Peculiar" Séverine: Oh, yes. Ferrand: It's all right! Take it from the top, right away. Let's go, Séverine. Séverine: "I don't understand you Alexander! You've been peculiar, lately. Walking out on dinner last night! That was an insult to Julie." Damn! I said Julie instead of Pamela. Ferrand: Not to worry. Séverine: I've got an idea! I'll use numbers, the way I do for Fellini! Instead of "I don't understand you Alexander..." I'll say, 22, 83, 16, 72, 5, 3, 18, 9, 14, 7, 9. 17, 10, 10, 4, 18, 69... Ferrand: Impossible, Séverine. In France, we have to say the lines.

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