Zeroville

“God hasn’t commanded you to kill me?” she said.

“You’ve had a bad dream,” said her father. “No true loving God would command such a thing of a father, and no true loving father would heed such a god.”

nobody ever lies about being lonely.

in Hollywood there are no right or wrong reasons for being famous

Can you say you actually stole something when you were allowed to steal it?

“I’ve cheated on Elizabeth Taylor,” Vikar says, patting his own head.

“Yes, monsieur,” the other man says dismissively. “But Elizabeth Taylor has cheated on you far more often.”

Vikar doesn’t know it, but everything now has been reset to zero.

He believes his life itself is in a kind of jet lag.

This godforsaken stretch of Gibraltar. The cutting room in Madrid. Paris, Bombay, Tokyo, fucking Norway, wherever — it’s all Hollywood, everywhere is Hollywood, the only place on the planet that’s not Hollywood anymore is Hollywood.

you’re probably the only one in Hollywood naïve enough to believe it and sincere enough to mean it

God despises the innocence of children and answers it with execution.