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Matthew Modine in And the Band Played On (1993)

Matthew Modine: Dr. Don Francis

And the Band Played On

Matthew Modine credited as playing...

Dr. Don Francis

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  • Blood Bank executive: Is the CDC seriously suggesting that the blood industry spends $100M a year to use the test for the wrong disease because we have a handful of transfusion fatalities and eight dead hemophiliacs?
  • Dr. Don Francis: How many dead hemophiliacs do you need? How many people have to die to make it cost effecient for you people to do something about it? A hundred? A thousand? Give us a number so we won't annoy you again until the amount of money you begin spending on lawsuits make it more profitable for you to save people than to kill them.
  • Dr. Don Francis: This may be the first epidemic in history of which no one officially died.
  • Dr. Robert Gallo: All right, explain one thing to me. Ten times ten times ten, my name is in every book ever written on the human retrovirus. Why would you get in bed with the French instead of me?
  • Dr. Don Francis: Is it you against the French? I thought we were all against the virus. If you go to court now, everybody loses. You, the people who die while you quibble...
  • Dr. Robert Gallo: [Interrupting] What do you want?
  • Dr. Don Francis: I want to stop you from turning a holocaust into an international pissing contest!
  • Eddie Papasano: Let me tell you people something, no matter what happens here today, if you try to close my joint, I 'll sue the ass off you.
  • Dr. Don Francis: Doesn't it bother you knowing that the people who have sex in your bath-house are playing Russian roulette?
  • Eddie Papasano: Please just cut out this bullshit. We're all in this for one thing: money. I make'em when the guys come in. You doctors, you make'em when they go out.
  • Dr. Robert Gallo: What do they pay you? The French.
  • Dr. Don Francis: The gift of time and the smile of healthy children.
  • Dr. Robert Gallo: Don't laugh. I've used that line 50 times and I still believe it.
  • Dr. Mary Guinan: How long has it been.
  • Dr. Don Francis: Smallpox, India.

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