Matinee (1993)
Simon Fenton: Gene Loomis
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Quotes
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Gene Loomis : Y'know, it's hard to believe you're a grown-up.
Ruth Corday : No kidding.
Lawrence Woolsey : You think grown-ups know what they're doing? That's just a hustle, kid. Grown-ups are making it up as they go along, just like you. You remember that, and you'll do fine.
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Gene Loomis : So, what did they give you?
Sandra : Detention. For a week.
Gene Loomis : Wow.
Sandra : They put Gandhi away for a year,
Gene Loomis : I don't know that many people around here.
Sandra : Uh-huh.
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[Lawrence Woolsey describes his movie-making philosophy]
Lawrence Woolsey : A zillion years ago, a guy's living in a cave. He goes out one day, Bam! He gets chased by a mammoth. Now he's scared to death, but he gets away. And when it's all over with, he feels great.
Gene Loomis : Well yeah, 'cause he's still living.
Lawrence Woolsey : Yeah, but he knows he is. And he feels it. So he goes home, back to the cave, the first thing he does,
[Waving his hand on a brick wall to show cave-drawing of Woolly Mammoth]
Lawrence Woolsey : ... he does a drawing of the mammoth. And he thinks, "People are coming to see this. Let's make it good. Let's make the teeth real long, and the eyes real mean."
[Animated sequence of roaring Woolly Mammoth, squashed at end by Woolsey's hand]
Lawrence Woolsey : Boom! The first monster movie. That's probably why I still do it. You make the teeth as big as you want, then you kill it off, everything's okay, the lights come up...
[Pretending to sigh]
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Dennis Loomis : No monsters? Hell.
Anne Loomis : Where did he get that?
Gene Loomis : [nodding to the TV, where minutes earlier Dennis was watching Adlai Stevenson's speech] The U.N.
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Dennis Loomis : That poor bastard.
Gene Loomis : Don't curse, Dennis.
