Mulholland Falls (1996)

Nick Nolte: Max Hoover

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• Lieutenant Max Hoover : See, that's federal property. This isn't. This is L.A. This is my town. Out here you're a trespasser. Out here I can pick you up, burn your house, fuck your wife, and kill your dog. And the only thing that'll protect you is if I can't find you. And I already found you.

• Lieutenant Maxwell Hoover : This isn't America, Jack. This is L.A.

• General Timms : These tiny particles of matter, which are so small that no one's ever seen them - never - they contain enough energy to blow up this house, an entire city, every person on Earth. Now that is inconceivable.

  Hoover : General, I really don't think much about those things. I'd probably see too much.

  General Timms : What do you see?

  Hoover : People dead before their time.

  General Timms : That's the history of the world, Lieutenant. Some people die before their time so that others can live. It's the cornerstone of civilization. War, religion, democracy. A hundred die so that a thousand may live.

• Hoover : Why do you eat while you're working? Why do you eat all the time?

  Coolidge : It's all psychological, Max. I eat so I don't think about food.

• Coolidge : Max, I'm shot.

  Hoover : Oh my God. Oh, no. Oh, no.

  Coolidge : My psychiatrist is not gonna like this, Max.

• Hoover : Here's something that doesn't cost you 25 bucks an hour: You carry your own water, Ellery. You understand? You carry your OWN water.

• Hoover : Jack Flynn?

  Jack Flynn, Mafia Mobster : [hands him money]  Here ya go buddy, buy yourself a good time.

  [turning away] 

  Jack Flynn, Mafia Mobster : They'll let anybody in here.

  Hoover : [throwing bills down]  Mr. Flynn, I'm Maxwell Hoover. I'm with the Los Angeles Police Department.

  Jack Flynn, Mafia Mobster : Oh, that means I get change back.

• Coolidge : [riding in the car]  You know, I've been thinking, why is it we always sit in the same place? And why is it you're always the one that drives, Max?

  Hoover : I guess it's 'cause I got the keys.

• Hoover : How come you got a hot dog in your mouth while you're threading the projector? Why do you eat while you're working? Why do you eat all the time?

  Coolidge : It's all psychological, Max. I eat so I don't think about food.

  Hoover : Oh... So you eat so you don't think about food.

  Coolidge : Yeah.

  Hoover : I don't want to butt into your business, but this psychiatrist, the guy you're going to, I think he's in worse shape than you are.

• Hoover : We go where the case takes us.

  Fitzgerald : Not if it takes you here you don't.