The Last Tycoon1976

Fleishacker:
You know, I'm fairly new out here. Do I understand you to say you expect to gross a half a million *short* of your budget?

Monroe Stahr:
It's a quality picture.

Fleishacker:
Quality picture? What the hell are we?

Monroe Stahr:
We've played safe for two years now. It's time we made a picture that isn't meant to *make* money. Pat Brady is always saying at Academy dinners that we have a certain duty to the public. Okay. It's a good thing for the company to slip in a picture that will lose money. Write it off as good will.