Broadcast News (1987)

Holly Hunter: Jane Craig

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• Paul Moore : It must be nice to always believe you know better, to always think you're the smartest person in the room.

  Jane Craig : No. It's awful.

• Aaron Altman : I know you care about him. I've never seen you like this about anyone, so please don't get me wrong when I tell you that Tom, while being a very nice guy, is the Devil.

  Jane Craig : This isn't friendship. You're crazy, you know that?

  Aaron Altman : What do you think the Devil is going to look like if he's around?

  Jane Craig : God!

  Aaron Altman : Come on! Nobody is going to be taken in by a guy with a long, red, pointy tail! What's he gonna sound like?

  [hisses] 

  Aaron Altman : No. I'm semi-serious here.

  Jane Craig : You're seriously...

  Aaron Altman : He will be attractive! He'll be nice and helpful. He'll get a job where he influences a great God-fearing nation. He'll never do an evil thing! He'll never deliberately hurt a living thing... he will just bit by little bit lower our standards where they are important. Just a tiny little bit. Just coax along flash over substance. Just a tiny little bit. And he'll talk about all of us really being salesmen. And he'll get all the great women.

• Jane Craig : So you like me, huh?

  Tom Grunick : I like you as much as I can like anyone who thinks I'm an asshole.

• Jane Craig : People called in complaining about your sweating?

  Aaron Altman : No, NICE calls, worried that I was having a heart attack.

• Aaron Altman : And in the middle of all this, I started to think about the one thing that makes me feel really good and makes immediate sense... and it's you.

  Jane Craig : Oh, Bubba.

  Aaron Altman : I'm going to stop right now. Except that I would give anything if you were two people, so that I could call up the one who's my friend and tell her about the one that I like *so much*!

• [Playback on monitor] 

  Reluctant Interviewee : Fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck. Can you use that?

  Aaron Altman : Depends on how slow a news day it is.

  [Reacting to the playback] 

  Jane Craig : I can't believe you said that!

  Aaron Altman : I'm very proud of that.

• Jane Craig : No, no, no it wasn't just the speech, the same thing happened with this guy. I have passed some line, some place. I am beginning to repel people I'm trying to seduce.

  Aaron Altman : He must've been great looking...

  Jane Craig : Why do you say that?

  Aaron Altman : Because nobody invites a *bad* looking idiot up to their bedroom.

• Jane Craig : Bastard! Sneak! Quitter!

  Aaron Altman : [cheerfully]  Speaking!

• [On Aaron's sweating incident on the air] 

  Jane Craig : [on phone]  It wasn't UNPRECEDENTED, was it?

  Tom Grunick : [on phone]  Not unless you count "Singin' In the Rain".

• Tom Grunick : You're an *amazing* woman - what a *feeling* having you inside my head!

  Jane Craig : [smiling]  Yeah - it was - an unusual place to be.

  Tom Grunick : It's like - indescribable - you knew *just* when to feed me the next line, you knew the m... second before I needed it. There was like, a *rhythm* we got into - it was like - *great sex*!

  [he pulls her toward him while she laughs] 

• Jane Craig : [handing the phone to Aaron Altman so he can speak with Tom Grunick]  Don't say anything about anything.

• Tom Grunick : It's amazing who's here.

  Jane Craig : Who?

  Tom Grunick : Me.

• Jane Craig : Just what do you want from me anyway, permission to be a fake? Stop whining. Do something about it!

• Tom Grunick : I would really - a lot - appreciate it if...

  Jane Craig : "Really - a lot - appreciate it"?

• Jane Craig : It's amazing. You commit this incredible breach of - ethics and then you act as if I'm nit - I'm giving you a hard time about nothing!

• Jane Craig : I-I can't help you. Sorry, I'm not here to teach remedial reporting.

• Jane Craig : So, you're not well educated, you have almost no experience... and you can't write.

  Tom Grunick : Yeah, and I'm... and I'm making a fortune.

• Aaron Altman : I figured out why it is I'm so hung up on getting a chance at weekend anchor. It's because if I do it well, then they'll pay me more and my life will be great and they'll treat me better. That's why.

  Jane Craig : Sounds like you may be on to something.

• Tom Grunick : It's the first time I've seen you dressed like this. You look so clean and pretty.

  Jane Craig : What do you mean? Clean?

  Tom Grunick : Well, at the office you always have this sort of film over you.

• Tom Grunick : I'm no good at what I'm being a success at.

  Jane Craig : How are you at back rubs?

• Tom Grunick : [drives to Jane's apartment]  Is this it?

  Jane Craig : Yes. I am so exhausted. Punchy. Sick, tired. I can't think and I can't move. I'm just a dead lump - of poured out *flesh*. Would you like to come up?

• Tom Grunick : I have an idea for something?

  Jane Craig : What?

  Tom Grunick : If I tell you, can you manage not to put it down or - or - or tell me why it won't work or is in bad journalistic taste or anything like that?

  Jane Craig : Yes, Tom. I think I can *manage*.

  Tom Grunick : Okay, It's about women who are attacked by someone they know on a date.

  Jane Craig : Ugh!

• Tom Grunick : Why can't I let go of this woman?

  Jane Craig : Well.

  [Tom caresses the top of Jane's strapless dress, Jane giggles] 

  Jane Craig : At least kiss me when you do that.

  Tom Grunick : You just can't stop editing me, huh?

  Jane Craig : This is hysterical.

• Tom Grunick : More and more lately when I've been watching you in action - seeing you in all your energy - I've been wondering what it would be like to be inside all that energy.

  Jane Craig : Me too.

• Tom Grunick : That's yes?

  Jane Craig : That's more than 'yes' -- that's 'you bet.'

• Aaron Altman : You can't end up with Tom because it goes totally against everything you're about.

  Jane Craig : Yeah, being a basket case.

• Jane Craig : These people - it's all so awful. It just hurts physically, doesn't it? Like something's wrong with your bones, like your organs are shifting inside your body.

• Jane Craig : [removing herself from a conversation with Tom]  I've gotta find someone. It's important. Excuse me.