Steve Railsback: Cameron

The Stunt Man

Cameron

Cameron: What should I congratulate you for? The fucking scene or for fucking the director?
Nina: [miffed] For fucking the director, honey. Didn't you know that's how little girls get into the movies?

Sam: Was she supposed to be a virgin?
Cameron: [softly, after a reflective pause] Yeah.
Sam: I had a virgin once. I had to fly to Guatemala for her. She was blind in one eye and had a stuffed alligator that said "Welcome to Miami Beach."

Eli Cross: How tall is King Kong?
Cameron: [shouting] Three foot six and that's what you're gonna be if you don't pay my thousand dollars!
[Eli laughs]

Cameron: I knew daredevils, and I ain't got nothin' against them, it's just they're all dead.

Man watching second unit stunt shot: [after corpse-strewn scene turns out to be faked] Great, but why do they always use so much blood? Ruins the realism, don't you think?
Cameron: Asshole.

Cameron: [after completing stunt] That was the hardest thousand dollars I ever earned.
Eli Cross: [Later... Starts to turn away, then turns back] Thousand dollars? What thousand dollars?
Cameron: [curt] The stunt.
Eli Cross: The stunt pays six-fifty.
Cameron: [angrily] No. Chuck said the stunt paid a thousand dollars.
Eli Cross: [dismissing him] Chuck could have promised you the Nobel Prize. The stunt pays six-fifty.
Cameron: [shouting] The stunt pays a thousand dollars. Chuck told me. You insulted me again.

Cameron: [after Eli urges him to read how to get out of a sunken car, and avoid Burt's fate of presumed drowning] Did Burt read this book?
Eli Cross: Offhand, I'd say no.

Cameron: If you want to get home for Thanksgiving, you better figure the guy coming at you is trying to kill you. Learned that from the gooks.
Eli Cross: Gooks? That has a nostalgic ring. You really did call them gooks? I thought that was just Time Magazine.

Cameron: Why are you trying to save my ass?
Eli Cross: Because you're almost as crazy as the young man I'm making this film about. Besides, I've fallen madly in love with the dark side of your nature.

[after Nina falls into the ocean, Cameron carries her in his arms back to shore]
Cameron: This is just like in the movies!
Nina: I *am* the movies.

Cameron: [after demonstrating a leap for Chuck] My specialty's the broad jump.
Chuck Barton: [angrily] And Burt's specialty was drowning!

Eli Cross: Well, talking of jail, would you be very upset if I asked just how many policemen are after you?
Cameron: Me? I don't know what you are talking about.
Eli Cross: The way you ran from the bridge, and the look on your face, and your charm bracelet. That's what I'm talking about. I suppose care to tell me what it is that you did?

Eli Cross: I have versions of all sorts. Care to go back and see one? In one version you fly the helicopter and I'm driving the Dusenberg. It's a dilly.
Cameron: What about the version where I drive off the bridge and drown in the water?
Eli Cross: What is this? Why would I want to harm you?

Chuck Barton: You know, one daredevil on this picture was enough! The hell is Eli thinking? Sending me a smartass, cocky, amateur kid when I need a stuntman! A little different when you're running across those roofs and they're pumping tracer bullets over your head.
Cameron: I was running for 26 months with guys shooting *at* my head, not over my head. I'm here. I'm alive. I knew daredevils, and I ain't got nothing against 'em, it's just they're all dead. So how about giving me break! You putting me on? Huh?
Chuck Barton: Me? I wouldn't know how to do that.

Chuck Barton: [indicating distance of about 4 feet] You think you can jump from there to there?
Cameron: [wondering if he's joking] From there to there?
Chuck Barton: Umm hmm.
Cameron: [before easily jumping the distance] Okie dokie.
Chuck Barton: Oh, very good... except you're dead. Your brains are scattered all over the pavement. You should land in a tuck and then roll.
Cameron: Show me, Sargeant.