“If New York is the city that never sleeps, Los Angeles in the middle of the night and early wee hours of the morning turns back into the desert it was before it got paved over with concrete. A lone coyote digging through a public garbage pail demonstrates how correct that thought is.” x “I've tried it both ways, and I'm just a tiny bit better when I don't break character. And if I can be a tiny bit better, I want to be.” x “When a man of principle battles a scoundrel, the scoundrel always at first has the upper hand. Because there are some things the man of principle won't do. While the scoundrel will do whatever it takes. That is, until the man of principle is pushed past his breaking point and beyond his nature. Most of Greek tragedy, half of all English theater, and three-quarters of American cinema operated from this premise.” x “Well, if by old-timey days, you mean television eight ago, yeah,’ he says” x “Rick goes for the imaginary pistol hanging off his hip, as Trudi on the other end of the receiver yells, ‘Bang bang bang!’ Rick lets out an excruciating scream as he falls to the linoleum floor of his kitchen, clutching his face as if that's there Johnny shot him. On the other end of the phone, Trudi asks, ‘What was that?’ On the floor of his kitchen, Rick tells her, “I acted like I got shot in the face.’ She coos an enthusiastic ‘Oooh, good idea.” x heard about this book from #Tarantino’s episode of the #ConanOBrienNeedsAFriend podcast, and was able to get it from the library. I’d have to watch the movie again but it was cool to get more background on the characters in the film and 1960s Hollywood and before. Once again Tarantino shows how much of a classic movie and tv nerd boy he is, but that’s cool, i added a bunch of movies/tv shows to my list of things to check out. I want a shirt with the little drawing and note Dalton did for little Quentin! and no Red Apple cig commercials at the end, whew! #WhatIRead #Bookstagram #LibraryBook #OnceUponATimeInHollywood https://www.instagram.com/p/CZxzINeuFTC/?utm_medium=tumblr
