Toby Jones credited as playing...
Truman Capote
- D.A.'s Secretary: I'm sorry. The D.A. doesn't take calls from strange women.
- Truman Capote: Who says I'm strange?
- Truman Capote: When you're talking to them, they seem like perfectly nice boys. To be frank, I'm much more concerned for my safety around Norman Mailer.
- [about the Kansas townspeople]
- Truman Capote: Do you think everyone keeps calling me "lady" to be mean, or can they honestly not tell?
- Truman Capote: Artists have the power, through our imagination to escape and degenerate world and create a better one.
- Truman Capote: [Looking at centre fold photos in a girlie magazine] Good heavens, look at this. This is revolting! Women look much better in clothes, much better. Goodness gracious, look at this messy thing!
- Truman Capote: I came all this way back, three days on the train... because there's something I want you to know. I have given my whole life to one effort. The creation of a great work of art. ... Please don't laugh at me.
- Perry Smith: My whole life... all I've wanted was to create a work of art. I sang, nobody listened. I painted, nobody looked. Now, Dick and me, we murder four people. And what's gonna come out of it? A work of art. I'm laughing at me.
- [last lines]
- Truman Capote: Hi, Nelle. I just began my novel, and I had such a good morning writing that I want to celebrate. Want to come to lunch? No, honey, I don't care where. Just someplace pretty where we can have fun and be ourselves.
- Babe Paley: You saw those two men hanged. It must be... Isn't it painful for you?
- Truman Capote: Babaling, life is painful. It's the one experience that unites rich and poor. I suppose I'm able to endure it... ... because I can alchemize what wounds me into art.
- Babe Paley: Yes, but... at what cost?