The Front (1976)
Michael Murphy: Alfred Miller
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Quotes
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Howard Prince : You want to put my name on your scripts.
Alfred Miller : It's not that simple. I write the scripts. I send them in under your name. They buy the scripts, right?
Howard Prince : It's perfect.
Alfred Miller : Then they're going to want to meet the writer.
Howard Prince : So?
Alfred Miller : So you're going to have to go in there, really be the writer.
Howard Prince : So I'll be the writer. What's the big deal? I can do it. I want to do it! I'm your friend. You're in trouble. What's a friend for?
Alfred Miller : Well, these days, you can get in trouble being friends.
Howard Prince : Life is risk.
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Howard Prince : All right, who can you sue?
Alfred Miller : Nobody. Nobody admits there's a blacklist. I mean, they just say, "Your script's not good enough." "You're not right for the assignment." You know, that kind of thing.
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Howard Prince : What are you blacklisted for?
Alfred Miller : I'm a communist sympathizer.
Howard Prince : Well, you always were.
Alfred Miller : Well, it's not so popular anymore.
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Alfred Miller : Howard, they won't buy my scripts. I'm on a blacklist. Do you know what that means? It's a list of names. The studios have them, the networks, the ad agencies. You're on the list, you're marked. You don't work.
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Howard Prince : I was thinking, there must be a lot of writers who are blacklisted. So how do they get along?
Alfred Miller : Why?
Howard Prince : I don't know. You know, it must be hard.
Alfred Miller : Yeah, it's hard.
Howard Prince : You know, it's funny. I got them so snowed. I mean, two writers wouldn't be any harder than one.
Alfred Miller : Oh, yeah? You think not?
Howard Prince : What do you have to know? It's a cinch.
Alfred Miller : Why not three?