Nick Broomfield: Self
Quotes
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Nick Broomfield : You killed seven men...
Aileen Wuornos : Yeah, I sure did!
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Nick Broomfield : [voiceover] Dawn insisted that gays hadn't been invented when she and Aileen first become friends.
Dawn Botkins : They weren't invented or whatever, there was no gay people.
Nick Broomfield : Well, what were they are all doing?
Dawn Botkins : They weren't gay. There was no such thing as gay.
Woman : [off camera] There were in the closet.
Dawn Botkins : No, they weren't! There was no such thing, I don't remember a person at school, 'gay'. I didn't hear this gay stuff 'til 10 years ago. Well, maybe 15. It's just now starting to be acceptable. But no, there was not. Was there gay people when you went to school?
Nick Broomfield : I'm sure that there probably were, I went to a British public school, there were many - that's where it was invented! Us and the Greeks, you know?
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Nick Broomfield : But how come there was so much physical trouble? Because it was all in one year. Seven people in one year.
Aileen Wuornos : Oh well! Oh well.
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Diane Wuornos - Aileen's mother : Do you know the exact date of the execution?
Nick Broomfield : I think it's soon.
Diane Wuornos - Aileen's mother : Okay.
Nick Broomfield : I think it's very soon.
Diane Wuornos - Aileen's mother : I think I'll rest better.
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Nick Broomfield : [after an interview in which Aileen exhibited obvious signs of mental illness] It was really pretty incredible that Aileen had just sailed through the psychiatric test the day before. It makes you wonder what you'd have to do to fail.
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Nick Broomfield : [voiceover] Jeb Bush is running for re-election on a law and order, pro-death penalty ticket. Aileen's execution date for October the 9th fits in perfectly, a month before these elections. Brad Thomas, Jeb Bush's political advisor, is reported as saying "We want to become more like Texas. Bring in the witnesses, put them on a gurney and let's rock and roll."
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[In the courtroom at Aileen's final appeal, Nick Broomfield goes over to say hello to Aileen's former lawyer]
Nick Broomfield : [voiceover] This is the first time I've seen Steve for 11 years. He said my film got him run out of town.
Steve Glazer : [laughing] Fuck you. Fuck you. Fuck you and the Queen. Fuck and your documentary.
