Eyes of Laura Mars (1978)

Tommy Lee Jones: John Neville

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• Laura : I can't understand... how it's possible... to live your whole life... without someone... and be doing more or less OK. And then suddenly you find them.

  John Neville : You recognize them.

  Laura : You recognize them. And... you know without them...

  John Neville : [whispered]  It's terrifying.

  Laura : Yes.

  John Neville : [whispered]  It's beautiful.

  Laura : Yes.

• John Neville : That is tragic. Absolutely tragic.

  Laura : You really think so?

  John Neville : Yes, I think it's really tragic that this is the kind of junk that's passing for art these days.

  Laura : Oh. Well, that's a completely different conversation.

  John Neville : I mean, don't you think it's a hype?

  Laura : I don't understand.

  John Neville : Hype, hustle, rip-off.

  Laura : Are you a critic?

  John Neville : No! Do you know the artist? What's her name?

  Laura : Laura Mars. I know her fairly well.

  John Neville : Well, if you see her, will you point her out to me? Because, I'd really be interested to find out what kind of frustrated voyeur type this chick really is.

• Laura : I'm going to call my lawyer. I think it's the time to do that. Or, do you have to read my rights or something first?

  John Neville : No, no. Hell, no. I didn't even frisk you yet.

• Laura : I saw it happen.

  John Neville : With your own eyes?

  Laura : In a nightmare.

• Laura : Why is he killing my friends? Why is he after me? Why me?

  John Neville : A variety of things might attract him to you - and to your associates. It could be a person who's jealous of your success. It could be a person who, in his own loony way feels that your work is promoting porno and decadence and he has a mission to clean up the world.

• John Neville : Put your finger through there and use the left hand to support the right hand. Push it as far away from your face as you can. Look right down the barrel. And when he comes at you, you squeeze that trigger. He'll go away.

• John Neville : If you have to, use it.

• John Neville : If there's any kind of lapse in your memory - or if there's any period of time in your *life* that you just can't remember, if there's anything you can't remember, it's very important that we discover together - what it is.

• John Neville : I want you to understand something very important. I feel that everything I thought about you, before I really knew you, is not what I feel anymore.

• John Neville : He had an idea that your work was glorifying violence. He had the idea that death shouldn't be used to sell things. Death - is a sacred thing.