Mulholland Falls (1996)
Nick Nolte: Max Hoover
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Quotes
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Lieutenant Max Hoover : See, that's federal property. This isn't. This is L.A. This is my town. Out here you're a trespasser. Out here I can pick you up, burn your house, fuck your wife, and kill your dog. And the only thing that'll protect you is if I can't find you. And I already found you.
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Lieutenant Maxwell Hoover : This isn't America, Jack. This is L.A.
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General Timms : These tiny particles of matter, which are so small that no one's ever seen them - never - they contain enough energy to blow up this house, an entire city, every person on Earth. Now that is inconceivable.
Hoover : General, I really don't think much about those things. I'd probably see too much.
General Timms : What do you see?
Hoover : People dead before their time.
General Timms : That's the history of the world, Lieutenant. Some people die before their time so that others can live. It's the cornerstone of civilization. War, religion, democracy. A hundred die so that a thousand may live.
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Hoover : Here's something that doesn't cost you 25 bucks an hour: You carry your own water, Ellery. You understand? You carry your OWN water.
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Hoover : Jack Flynn?
Jack Flynn, Mafia Mobster : [hands him money] Here ya go buddy, buy yourself a good time.
[turning away]
Jack Flynn, Mafia Mobster : They'll let anybody in here.
Hoover : [throwing bills down] Mr. Flynn, I'm Maxwell Hoover. I'm with the Los Angeles Police Department.
Jack Flynn, Mafia Mobster : Oh, that means I get change back.
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Hoover : How come you got a hot dog in your mouth while you're threading the projector? Why do you eat while you're working? Why do you eat all the time?
Coolidge : It's all psychological, Max. I eat so I don't think about food.
Hoover : Oh... So you eat so you don't think about food.
Coolidge : Yeah.
Hoover : I don't want to butt into your business, but this psychiatrist, the guy you're going to, I think he's in worse shape than you are.
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Hoover : We go where the case takes us.
Fitzgerald : Not if it takes you here you don't.