Chinatown (1974)
John Huston: Noah Cross
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Quotes
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Jake Gittes : How much are you worth?
Noah Cross : I have no idea. How much do you want?
Jake Gittes : I just wanna know what you're worth. More than 10 million?
Noah Cross : Oh my, yes!
Jake Gittes : Why are you doing it? How much better can you eat? What could you buy that you can't already afford?
Noah Cross : The future, Mr. Gittes! The future. Now, where's the girl? I want the only daughter I've got left. As you found out, Evelyn was lost to me a long time ago.
Jake Gittes : Who do you blame for that? Her?
Noah Cross : I don't blame myself. You see, Mr. Gittes, most people never have to face the fact that at the right time and the right place, they're capable of ANYTHING.
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Noah Cross : Exactly what do you know about me? Sit down.
Jake Gittes : Mainly that you're rich, too respectable to want your name in the newspapers.
Noah Cross : Of course I'm respectable. I'm old! Politicians, ugly buildings and whores all get respectable if they last long enough.
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Noah Cross : You may think you know what you're dealing with, but, believe me, you don't.
[Gittes grins]
Noah Cross : Why is that funny?
Jake Gittes : That's what the District Attorney used to tell me in Chinatown.
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Noah Cross : Katherine! I, I'm your grandfather, my dear. I'm your grandfather.
Evelyn Mulwray : [pushes Katherine into the car] Katherine, get in the car.
[to her butler]
Evelyn Mulwray : Go on. No no, go on.
[to Curly]
Evelyn Mulwray : I'll follow you.
[to her father]
Evelyn Mulwray : Get away from her! Get away.
Noah Cross : Evelyn, please, please be reasonable.
[to Katherine]
Noah Cross : Come to my...
Evelyn Mulwray : [pushes her father away] Get AWAY from her!
Noah Cross : Evelyn! How many years have I got? She's mine, too.
Evelyn Mulwray : She's never going to know that.
[pulls a gun on him]
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[Lunch is served; it's fish]
Noah Cross : I hope you don't mind. I believe they should be served with the head.
Jake Gittes : Fine... long as you don't serve the chicken that way.
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Noah Cross : Well, Mr. Gittes, you don't look too much the worse for wear, I must say! Now where's the girl?
Jake Gittes : I've got her.
Noah Cross : Is she all right?
Jake Gittes : She's fine.
Noah Cross : Well, where is she?
Jake Gittes : With her mother.
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Noah Cross : Who's the investigating officer?
Jake Gittes : Lou Escobar -- he's a Lieutenant.
Noah Cross : Do you know him?
Jake Gittes : Oh, yeah.
Noah Cross : Where from?
Jake Gittes : We used to work together - in Chinatown.
Noah Cross : Would you call him a capable man?
Jake Gittes : Very.
Noah Cross : Honest?
Jake Gittes : As far as it goes; of course, he has to swim in the same water we all do.
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Noah Cross : You've got a nasty reputation, Mr. Gittes. I like that.
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Noah Cross : Either you bring the water to L.A. or you bring L.A. to the water.
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Noah Cross : It disturbs me. It makes me think you're taking my daughter for a ride - financially speaking, of course. What are you charging her?
Jake Gittes : My usual fee - plus a bonus if I get results.
Noah Cross : Are you - sleeping with her? Come, come, Mr. Gittes, you don't have to think about that to remember, do you?
Jake Gittes : If you want an answer to that question, Mr. Cross, I'll put one of my men on the job.
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Jake Gittes : Tell me, are you frightened for the girl or what Evelyn might do to her?
Noah Cross : Just - find the girl.
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Noah Cross : But I'm surprised you're still working for her, unless she's suddenly come up with another husband.
Jake Gittes : No. She happens to think the last one was murdered.
Noah Cross : How did get that idea?
Jake Gittes : I think I gave it to her.