Gabriel Shear: You know what the problem with Hollywood is? They make
shit.

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Stanley Jobson: It's not gonna end like this.
Gabriel Shear: Oh, come on, Stan. Not everything ends the way you
think it should. Besides, audiences love happy endings.

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Gabriel Shear: Have you ever heard of Harry Houdini? Well he wasn't
like today's magicians who are only interested in television ratings.
He was an artist. He could make an elephant disappear in the middle of
a theater filled with people, and do you know how he did that?
Misdirection.
Stanley Jobson: What the fuck are you talking about?
Gabriel Shear: Misdirection. What the eyes see and the ears hear, the
mind believes.

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Stanley: And you are?
GINGER: I'm Ginger.
Stanley: Where's Gilligan?

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Ginger: You're not too good at this golf thing, are you, Stan?
Stanley: You're fucking up my chi.

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Gabriel Shear: You know what the problem with Hollywood is? They make
shit. Unbelieveable, unremarkable shit. Now I'm not some grungy
wannabe filmmaker that's searching for existentialism through a haze
of bong smoke or something. No, it's easy to pick apart bad acting,
short-sighted directing, and a purely moronic stringing together of
words that many of the studios term as "prose". No, I'm talking about
the lack of realism. Realism; not a pervasive element in today's
modern American cinematic vision. Take Dog Day Afternoon, for example.
Arguably Pacino's best work, short of Scarface and Godfather Part 1,
of course. Masterpiece of directing, easily Lumet's best. The
cinematography, the acting, the screenplay, all top-notch. But... they
didn't push the envelope. Now what if in Dog Day, Sonny REALLY wanted
to get away with it? What if -- now here's the tricky part -- what if
he started killing hostages right away? No mercy, no quarter. "Meet
our demands or the pretty blonde in the bellbottoms gets it the back
of the head." Bam, splat! What, still no bus? Come on! How many
innocent victims splattered across a window would it take to have the
city reverse its policy on hostage situations? And this is 1976;
there's no CNN, there's no CNBC, there's no internet! Now fast forward
to today, present time, same situation. How quickly would the modern
media make a frenzy over this? In a matter of hours, it'd be biggest
story from Boston to Budapest! Ten hostages die, twenty, thirty; bam
bam, right after another, all caught in high-def, computer-enhanced,
color corrected. You can practically taste the brain matter. All for
what? A bus, a plane? A couple of million dollars that's federally
insured? I don't think so. Just a thought. I mean, it's not within the
realm of conventional cinema... but what if?

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