Neil Bleene Quotes in Postcards from the Edge (1990)

Neil Bleene: We're talking about two minutes of film - two minutes of screen time out of ninety.

Suzanne Vale: Is it correctable?

Neil Bleene: Oh, come on. It's not as though you farted during all your dialogue; we sat there in rushes saying 'what's all that noise all over her lines?'

Suzanne Vale: I'm so relieved. That analogy has bathed me in relief.

Neil Bleene: I've been in the theatre. I'm actually a theatre director. Sometimes certain line-readings apply. Like in comedy, it is a rule. Inflections go up at the end.

Suzanne Vale: That's a comedy RULE?

Neil Bleene: Well, not so much rule as guideline.