The Dead Pool (1988)

David Hunt: Harlan Rook

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Quotes 

• Harlan Rook : Now you've locked yourself in, asshole!

  Harry Callahan : Yeah. Just you and me, asshole.

• Harlan Rook : Did you ever notice how time seems to slow down at night?

• Harlan Rook : [while holding Samantha hostage, in his arm]  You let me down, "Mr. Famous Fuckin' Cop". You let Swan, get away!

• Molly Fisher : [Rook breaks into Fisher's home]  Please, whatever you want, money, credit cards, just take it!

  Harlan Rook : You ever notice how time seems to slow down at night? Just like in my films. A dream world.

  Molly Fisher : Please.

  Harlan Rook : Shut up! I can't hear the colors. I've got to hear the colors. That's the mark of a good director. You've got to be able to hear the colors. You've got to be able to taste the sounds.

  Molly Fisher : Please, I have a heart condition.

  Harlan Rook : A critic with a heart, that's a laugh. Do you like my films?

  Molly Fisher : What?

  Harlan Rook : I said, do you like my films?

  Molly Fisher : Who are you?

  Molly Fisher : I don't. I don't know you.

  Harlan Rook : God... What kind of a film critic are you? "Shadows of the Dead"! "Hell Without the Devil"! "Night of the Slasher"!

  Molly Fisher : Peter Swan.

  Harlan Rook : Brilliant, love. What do you think of my films? Give me your honest opinion.

  Molly Fisher : I like them.

  Harlan Rook : LIAR!

  [kills Fisher] 

• Harlan Rook : [after kidnapping Walker and holding her hostage at Swan's studio]  Yes. That's the shot I'm looking for.

  Samantha Walker : What is it you want from me?

  Harlan Rook : Oh, you've got it wrong, love. This is what you wanted - an exclusive interview.

  Samantha Walker : But you're not Peter Swan.

  Harlan Rook : Shut up! You don't know! You don't know! I know who I am. You know who you are? Do you?

  Samantha Walker : Yes...

  Harlan Rook : All those films he made, those are my nightmares, not his! Every night I dream, and somehow, somehow he reads my mind. He stole my thoughts. He put my thoughts on film for everyone to see and he takes all the credit! He can't get away with it. He has to pay.

  [plays "Welcome to the Jungle" on his boombox] 

  Harlan Rook : He stole my nightmares and made them real, so I stole his dead pool. I'll play his game and make it real. Let him take the credit for that.