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George Higgins: There's no mystery. Things I do, I do them because I like them! Because I want to!

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Tom Welles: If someone never saw or sold a snuff film, they shouldn't give a damn what I ask about it, if they have they got a right to be nervous.

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Larry: Are you a police officer or in any way affiliated with law enforcement?
Max California: Fuck you Larry.
Larry: Are you a police officer or in any way affiliated with law enforcement?
Tom Welles: Fuck you Larry.
Max California: Mmm, you're getting the moves.

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Tom Welles: [on Eddie] STOP EDDIE! I swear to Christ that I'll shoot you in the back!
Tom Welles: [on Machine] Take off the mask.
[Machine shakes his head saying no]
Tom Welles: TAKE OFF THE FUCKIN' MASK!
Machine: HE'S ONLY GOT ONE BULLET!
[Tom kicks Machine]

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Dino Velvet: [on the phone] Hello.
Eddie Poole: It's me!
Dino Velvet: Uh-huh, What do you want?
Eddie Poole: Look I've just got a phone call, we got to talk, & now we can't talk on the phone. And so one of us should get on a plane or something all right.
Dino Velvet: Oh blow me you

paranoid fuck.
[hangs up the phone]
Eddie Poole: FUCK! FUCK!
Tom Welles: [takes off the headphones] So you like to watch paranoid fuck.

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Tom Welles: [on the phone to Mrs Christian] The film is real.
[she looks devastated]

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Photolab Assistant: This incredibly expensive machine has given us a picture of the back of a man's head.

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Max California: [watching a video of Machine torturing a woman] Oh, he's a lover, man... definitely loves what he does for a living.

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[first lines]
Airport Announcer: Welcome to Miami. While in the airport, please observe Florida and local laws which prohibit any smoking in the terminal. Thank you for not smoking.

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Tom Welles: Eddie Poole?
Eddie Poole: Are you a Process Server?
Tom Welles: No, no I've been inquiring around if by any chance you've seen this girl come through here.
[comes showing a picture of Mary Ann Mathews]
Eddie Poole: You a cop?
Tom Welles: I'm a member of her family.


Eddie Poole: You got any idea of how much pussy comes through here?
Tom Welles: Please if you just take a look, it would've been a few years.
Eddie Poole: [Eddie's face sweating by looking the picture of Mary Ann Mathews]
Tom Welles: Her name is Mary Ann Mathews.
Eddie Poole:

Never seened her.
Tom Welles: You're sure?
Eddie Poole: Yeah I'm sure, I've just looked at the fuckin' picture didn't I? And come on, I've got a lot of shit to do!

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Mary Ann Mathews: [Diary] I guess you'll see me in a movie someday.

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Janet Mathews: [letter to Tom] And I'm glad those men are dead.

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Tom Welles: Who makes these films?
Max California: I don't know. Probably the Philippines.
[after watching some more of the girl being tortured]
Max California: Yep. Definitely the Philippines.

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Max California: He really believes it's Art.