The Legend of Lylah Clare (1968)

Ernest Borgnine: Barney Sheean

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• Barney Sheean : I need nobody!

  Mark Peter Sheean : You do need some good films. Maybe Zarken can give you one.

  Barney Sheean : "Films"? "Films"? What the hell ever happened to movies? What do you think you're in, the art business? Tell Lewis the's dead - retroactively dead. Now you tell him I'll take a look at this broad of his, but, that I'm not really interested. And, just remind him - I make *movies* - not "films".

• Rossella : You think you created her? Can create her again? No. You can't. She's - herself. Unique.

  Barney Sheean : Was.

  Rossella : Was? Is. Take a look around this house. She wouldn't leave us all. Supposing you did find some cheap imitation of her, don't you think the results might be a little dangerous? Dangerous for all of us. Reporters, photographers. They bring up all the old muck. The old lies.

• Barney Sheean : As long as I'm alive, there's only one boss.

  Mark Peter Sheean : You're never going to die, Pop.

  Barney Sheean : You're damn right!

• Bart Langner : Elsa's measurements are really the same. Lewis says they're identical.

  Barney Sheean : Oh yeah? How does he know? Been fingering the merchandise already, huh?

• Barney Sheean : Tell me, this new broad, can she act any?

• Barney Sheean : I don't have to take this crap!

  Lewis Zarken : No, you don't. You just have to make pictures. Oh, I beg your pardon, you manufacture devices - devices that are eventually sold by film foot to TV and we all milk white before they get to market. The budget is falsified. Whether we have foreign distribution, music corporations, publicity, prints, popcorn, popsicles, and everybody cheats on those! Murder's out and thievery's in, isn't it?

• Barney Sheean : You've always got to be knocking something, haven't you? Look, if you don't like this country, what made you come here in the first place, huh? Yeah, and I seem to remember you were pretty happy putting our dollars in your pocket.

  Lewis Zarken : Here's the blackmail section of the conversation. It's unpatriotic to argue with Barney Sheean. It's downright un-American to be unkind to him. We're not talking about the country, we're talking about you!