Medium Cool (1969)

Robert Forster: John Cassellis

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• John Cassellis : If I gotta be afraid in order for your argument to work, then you got no argument.

• John Cassellis : Jesus I love to shoot film.

• John Cassellis : Better call an ambulance.

• Gus : Hey, what's in the basket?

  John Cassellis : Dinner.

• John Cassellis : It seems like no man's life is worth anything anymore. You see, the media's got a script now by the numbers. Memorial meetings, Memorial marches. Moments of silence. A widow cries, and then she says brave words. A lot of experts saying how sick our society is, how sick we all are. The script is a national drain-off.

• John Cassellis : People say, Yeah, yeah, we're guilty. We're bad. 'Cause a lot of people are afraid. They're afraid... the Negroes are going to tear up their stores, burn neighborhoods, so they have this nationwide coast-to-coast network special called Mourn the Martyr. Nobody's really on the hook, you see? When the script is finished and Tuesday comes around... National Drain-Off Week is over... everybody goes pretty much back to normal.