Bliss (1985)

Bryan Marshall: Adrian Clunes

Quotes 

• Adrian Clunes : Y'know Harry, where exactly are you going to draw the line? If you fire us, you have to fire all the clients.

  [Oyster flies off his fork] 

  Adrian Clunes : I'm sorry. Now listen: they release about 18,000 totally new organic compounds every year; none of them are properly tested. God knows how many cause cancer! The whole of the Western world is built on things that cause cancer. They cannot afford to stop making them!

  [pause] 

  Adrian Clunes : Oh, for Christ's sake, look at your clients. Austrol had benzine in petrol; which is a carcinogen. Mitsuzi use it making tires! And we, we use saccharine, and even if we switch to cyclamates instead, they're just another suspect. And that other lot, your dry cleaning companies, use carbon tetrachloride! And every time

  [pause] 

  Adrian Clunes : an announcement is made that something might cause cancer, people are less worried because they cannot believe it possible that half of what they breath and eat

  [pause] 

  Adrian Clunes : is going to kill them.