- [last lines]
- Jake Hannaford: Who knows, maybe you can stare too hard at something, huh? Drain out the virtue, suck out the living juice. You shoot the great places and the pretty people... All those girls and boys. Shoot 'em dead.
- Male Guest 5: If the audience can't get it then what's the point of even going to the movie?
- Matt Costello: What can I do for you, Ms. Rich?
- Julie Rich: You could tell me what's going on here. Or why.
- Matt Costello: I wouldn't even begin to try.
- The Baron: Excuse me: I'm afraid you're getting out of sequence; someone must've given you the wrong reel.
- Projectionist: Does it matter?
- [first lines]
- Brooks Otterlake: [voice-over] That's the car, what was left of it after the accident. If it was an accident.
- Billy Boyle: The queers adore great women.
- Jake Hannaford: They like all women, Uncle. They're the only sex that does.
- Zarah Valeska: Yes. Real men never like us. Men only like men.
- Max David: He wants to f**k him! He wants to f**k his leading man; don't you see that? Don't you see right there in his movies? But he can't acknowledge that!
- Brooks Otterlake: [voice-over] For years I personally didn't want this document shown because, frankly, I didn't like the way I came off in the piece.
- Brooks Otterlake: What happened to the critic lady?
- Al Denny: She'll live.
- Brooks Otterlake: She'll live to write about it.