The Offer
Thursdays on Paramount+The Offer Season 1 Episode 1: "A Seat at the Table" Quotes
I had wondered where the beautiful cool cats had gone, and here they are.
Bob
Ruddy: Hey, who is that guy?
Mitch: Bob Evans, head of Paramount. That guy's more connected than God, and yeah, he's always that tan.
Erika: Fuck art, Mario. Start typin'.
Mario: You want me to write about the mafia?
Erika: Yeah.
Mario: How do I tell that story any differently? Everybody knows they steal, they control gambling, they run whores, unions.
Erika: OK. So maybe it's not just a book about the mafia!
Mario: What do you mean?
Erika: Well, the guys you grew up with, they didn't start out so different from you -- immigrants. They eat, they drink, they love, they cry. They worry about their kids' futures, just like us.
Mario: They kill.
Erika: OK, so maybe we don't kill, but maybe this book is about findin' the reason we would.
Every party needs a pooper.
Bob
Barry: Look, I'm not going to be around the bush. We need hits. We can't live off of Rosemary's Baby forever.
Bob: Barry, did you, did you read Love Story?
Barry: Yes. Why?
Bob: Did it move you?
Barry: What does that have to do with anything?
Bob: The audience has to be moved, Barry. That's how you make hit pictures. Times are changin' and you need to keep up. That's why I've got the job in the ivory tower, and you don't.
Barry: If you don't string together some hits, that ivory tower of yours is going to come crashing down.
Bob: Oh ye of such little faith. Bottoms up, Barry.
I'm going to make an ice blue terrifying film about people you love.
Al
Mario: So the studio got me a whole house to write in?
Al: No. I got you the house; they're just paying for it.
Mario: That's Frank Sinatra. Fuckin' Frank Sinatra! Amazing. I'm in the same room with Sinatra!
Al: Look, Puzo. Chasen's is not a celebrity petting zoo, OK? Stay here. I gotta go pee.
