Mike Michaelson Quotes in The Truman Show (1998)

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  • Mike Michaelson: Christof, let me ask you, why do you think that Truman has never come close to discovering the true nature of his world until now?

    Christof: We accept the reality of the world with which we're presented. It's as simple as that.

  • Mike Michaelson: The Hague for Christof. Hello? The Hague? All right, we've lost that call, let's go to Hollywood, California. You're on Trutalk.

    Sylvia: Hi, Christof, I'd just like to say one thing, you're a liar and a manipulator and what you've done to Truman is sick!

    Christof: Well. We remember this voice, don't we? How could we forget?

    Mike Michaelson: Uh, let's go to another call, what do we have...

    Christof: No. No, no, no, no, no, it's fine, it's fine, Mike. I love to reminisce with former members of the cast. Sylvia, as you announced so melodramatically to the world, do you think because you batted your eyes at Truman once, flirted with him, stole a few minutes of airtime with him to thrust yourself and your politics into the limelight, that you know him? That you know what's right for him? You really think you're in a position to judge him?

    Sylvia: What right do you have to take a baby and turn his life into some kind of mockery? Don't you ever feel guilty?

    Christof: I have given Truman the chance to lead a normal life. The world, the place you live in, is the sick place. Seahaven is the way the world should be.

    Sylvia: He's not a performer, he's a prisoner. Look at him, look at what you've done to him!

    Christof: He could leave at any time. If his was more than just a vague ambition, if he was absolutely determined to discover the truth, there's no way we could prevent him. I think what distresses you, really, caller, is that ultimately Truman prefers his cell, as you call it.

    Sylvia: Well, that's where you're wrong. You're so wrong! And he'll prove you wrong!

  • Mike Michaelson: The show has generated enormous revenues now equivalent to the gross national product of a small country.

    Christof: People forget it takes the population of an entire country to keep the show running.

    Mike Michaelson: Since the show is on 24 hours a day without commercial interruption, all those staggering revenues are generated by product placement.

    Christof: That's true. Everything on the show is for sale. From the actors' wardrobe, food products, to the very homes they live in.

    Mike Michaelson: And of course, all of it available in the Truman catalogue and operators are standing by.

  • Talk Show Caller: Hi, Christof. I was just wondering how many cameras you got there in that town.

    Christof: Somewhere in the vicinity of 5000.

    Talk Show Caller: That's a lot of cameras.

    Christof: Remember, we started with just one.

    [as he speaks, clips of a foetus, newborn babies in a hospital, a toddler walking along a beach and a toddler looking up at a mobile with a camera attached to it are shown]

    Christof: He was curious from birth. Premature by two weeks. It was almost as if he couldn't wait to get started.

    Mike Michaelson: And of course his eagerness to leave his mother's womb was the very reason he the one who was selected.

    Christof: In competition with five other unwanted pregnancies, the casting of a show determined by an airdate, Truman was the one who arrived on cue.

    Mike Michaelson: Incidentally, I believe Truman is the first child to have been legally adopted by a corporation?

    Christof: That's correct.

  • Mike Michaelson: [about Truman's father] But how do you intend to explain his 22-year absence?

    Christof: Amnesia.

    Mike Michaelson: Brilliant.

  • Mike Michaelson: 1:02:13 What a week it's been. I don't know about you, I was on pins and needles the entire time. Hello and good evening. I'm your host Mike Michaelson and welcome to Trutalk, our forum issues growing out of the show. But tonight, something very special indeed. A rare and exclusive interview with the show's conceiver and creator. So come with us now as we go live to the lunar room on the 221st floor of the omni-cam ecosphere. That's where we'll find the world's greatest televisionary, the desiger and architect of the world within a world that is Seahaven Island: Christof. Before we begin, I'd like to thank you on behald of our audience for granting us this exclusive interview. We know how demanding your schedule is and we all know how jealously you guard your privacy. This, sir, is indeed an honor.

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