The Other Side of the Wind Quotes

  • Male Guest 5: If the audience can't get it then what's the point of even going to the movie?

  • Zimmer: Studying a man like Jake Hannaford, that's an experience. Don't you miss it.

  • 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.

  • [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.

  • Jake Hannaford: Movies and friendship - those are mysteries.

  • 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?

  • 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!

  • [first lines]

    Brooks Otterlake: [voice-over] That's the car, what was left of it after the accident. If it was an accident.

  • 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.

  • Marvin P. Fassbender: I'm Marvin P. Fassbender.

    Jake Hannaford: Of course you are.

  • Zarah Valeska: Wasn't it understood that we weren't going to talk about love affairs?

  • The Baron: I'd call you a necromancer. But I do not know if he has raised the dead.

  • Brooks Otterlake: Jake, what the hell are we doing?

    Jake Hannaford: We're having a party!

  • Brooks Otterlake: What did I do wrong, Daddy?

  • Brooks Otterlake: What happened to the critic lady?

    Al Denny: She'll live.

    Brooks Otterlake: She'll live to write about it.