The Last Tycoon
1976
Kathleen: How old are you? Monroe: I've lost track, about thirty-five I think.
Monroe: I don't think I have more brains than a writer, I just think that his brains belong to me
Monroe Stahr: All writers are children. Fifty percent are drunks. And up till very recently, writers in Hollywood were gag-men; most of them are still gag-men, but we call them writers. Brimmer: Uh-huh. But they're still the farmers in this business. They grow the grain, but they're not in at the feast. Monroe Stahr: This looks to me like a try for power, Mr Brimmer, and I will not give them power. I'll give them money, I won't give them power.
Brimmer: I always wanted to hit ten million dollars.
Cecilia Brady: (about returning to school) Oh, I don't know. I'm pretty well educated. (flirtatiously) Maybe I should get married. Monroe Stahr: (lightly) Well, I'd marry you, I'm lonely, but I'm too old and tired to undertake anything. Cecilia Brady: (seriously) Undertake me.