Assistant Quotes in Airport (1970)

Assistant: The instruction book said that was impossible!

Joe Patroni: That's one nice thing about the 707. She can do everything but read.

Raymond Burke: You now the three most important words in politics?

assistant: Uh, no sir.

Raymond Burke: Don't get caught.

Rabbi: Oy vey! How many times do I got to tell you, you don't put the Redneck Zombies in with the Disney videos!

Assistant: But Redneck Zombies is gruesome!

Rabbi: Gruesome? You should see my mother-in-law! That's gruesome!

Assistant: Well Mr. Mooney is downstairs and he is P-I-S-E-D.

Jane: Pised?

Harry Doyle: One hit,that's all we got, one goddamn hit?

Assistant: You can't say goddamn on the air.

Harry Doyle: Don't worry, nobody is listening anyway.

Vance Wilder, Sr.: Van is still in school?

Assistant: For the better part of a decade.

Sidney Stratton: [Seeing the assistant's pen-lighter] That's ingenious. May I?

Assistant: Of course.

Sidney Stratton: [Flicking the lighter on] I wonder, can you tell me what is the ratio of ink to petrol?

Assistant: I don't know.

Dr. Chris Cooper: [holding out cappuccino cup to assistant] My cap is luke.

Assistant: Lukewarm, Chris?

Cisco: No, Luke Skywalker, you fuckin' inbred.

Assistant: This is the real party, Chris.

Doctor Muller: Look - the sacred spells which protect the soul in its journey to the underworld have been chipped off the coffin. So Imhotep was sentenced to death not only in this world, but in the next.

Assistant: Maybe he got too gay with the vestal virgins in the temple.

Doctor Muller: Possibly.

Older Lily: Do you know how a photograph is made? The camera takes in the light through the lens, the aperture opens, and the focused light slices into the camera, embedding the image forever onto the film. The film is developed, and the images are resurrected with chemicals.

[pause]

Older Lily: Do you know how a photograph is really made?

Assistant: You just said, the aperture opens and...

Older Lily: A photograph is made in the mind of the photographer. He points his paintbrush and captures a moment, a temporal thief, he stops the clock for that one instant, and stores it in his camera. He captures an emotion, an event, or most poignantly, some indescribable nuance, that every person who sees the picture identifies, but can't put into words.

Assistant: You really love it, don't you?

Older Lily: He once told me, "The job of an artist is to make order out of chaos". Do you think that's true?

Assistant: Sure. In a film negative everything is the opposite of what it looks like. Black is white, White is black. All the things you expect are switched around.