Milk (I) (2008)

Emile Hirsch: Cleve Jones

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• Harvey Milk : Okay. First order of business to come out of this office is the city-wide gay rights ordinance, just like the one that Anita shot down in Dade County. What do you think, Lotus Blossom?

  Michael Wong : I think it's good. It's not great.

  Harvey Milk : Okay, so make it brilliant. We want Anita's attention here, in San Francisco. I wanted to bring her fight to us. We need a unanimous vote - we need headlines.

  Jim Rivaldo : Dan White is not going to vote for this.

  Harvey Milk : Dan White'll be fine, Dan White is just uneducated. We'll teach him.

  Dan White : [suddenly appearing in the doorway]  Hey, Harv! Committee meets at nine-thirty.

  [to everyone else] 

  Dan White : Hi, you guys.

  [to Harvey] 

  Dan White : Um, say, did you get the invitation to my son's christening? I invited a few of the other supes too.

  Harvey Milk : Oh, well, I'll be there!

  Dan White : Great! Thanks.

  [waves at everyone and leaves] 

  Dick Pabich : Did he hear you?

  Jim Rivaldo : What the fuck?

  Anne Kronenberg : Are you going?

  Harvey Milk : I would let him christen me if it means he's gonna vote for the gay rights ordinance.

  Jim Rivaldo : [as Harvey is talking]  I think he can hear you. Jesus.

  Harvey Milk : We need allies.

  Dick Pabich : I don't think he heard you.

  Cleve Jones : Is it just me or is he cute?

• Cleve Jones : I went to Spain last month, long story. In Barcelona there was this memorial march for gay people that had died under Franco. Of course, the police tried to break it up, but these queens didn't run, no, they turned around and they started a fucking riot. I saw a bullet, one of those rubber bullets rip through a drag queens scalp, but she kept on fighting; she was screaming, but she kept on fighting. I mean, our lives... There was blood, literally running in the gutter. In a gutter.

  Harvey Milk : We could have a revolution here. But you can't use the Castro just to cruise. You have to fight.

  Cleve Jones : You think you'll win?

  Harvey Milk : Winning isn't my strong suit.

  Cleve Jones : Well, I don't do losing. Ever. Maybe I should run for office, and you can work for me. I mean, if you can do it...

  Harvey Milk : Can you assemble a thousand people in an hour?

  Cleve Jones : Fuck yeah.

  Harvey Milk : All right, if I run again, you're my man. Polls open in 3 hours. How bout you and I hit the bus stops.

• Harvey Milk : Hey, I like the way your pants fit... Where are you from, kid?

  Cleve Jones : [laughs]  Sorry old man, not interested.

  Harvey Milk : I'm Harvey Milk. I'm running for Supervisor. What's your name?

  Cleve Jones : Cleve... Jones.

  Harvey Milk : Well Mr. Jones, we should walk up to my camera shop and register you.

  Cleve Jones : Fuck that. Elections of any kind are a fucking bourgeois affectation.

  Harvey Milk : Is that right? So do you trick up on Polk Street?

  Cleve Jones : If I need the cash... But I'm selective about my clients.

  Harvey Milk : Tell me one thing before you get back to work then. What was it like to be a little queer in Phoenix? Did the jocks beat you up?

  Cleve Jones : I faked a lung disease to get out of PE. So what? What are you, some kind of street shrink?

  Harvey Milk : Sometimes.

• Cleve Jones : Out of the bar and into the streets! Anita Bryant is coming for you!

• Cleve Jones : Anita! You liar! We'll set your hair on fire!

• Cleve Jones : [about Jack Lira]  The new Mrs. Milk. I give it a week.

• Harvey Milk : You know what I think, Cleve Jones?

  Cleve Jones : That you're gonna get somewhere if you keep talking?

  Harvey Milk : No, I think you should do what you do well- be a prick. But come with us and be a prick.