Donald Sutherland credited as playing...
Jerome Debney
- Jerome Debney: If you are an egg, I hope you'll be careful.
- Berenice Hollis: Trust me, I'm anything but an egg.
- Jerome Debney: Do you know the saddest egg of all? The egg that believes it's a stone.
- Jerome Debney: I saw blue once. Genuine blue, you understand. Platonic blue. In a pool much like this. I was underwater, staring upwards at the sky. And perhaps it was merely a deficit of oxygen. But for a moment - blue. I've been searching for it ever since.
- Berenice Hollis: When I got to Italy, I thought, "Why not? Play the whore for a little while. See how it feels."
- Jerome Debney: And does it suit you? This new mask?
- Berenice Hollis: Turns out, I'm all right at it.
- Jerome Debney: You have to be careful, my dear. A mask can be a perilous thing. When I take mine off at night, another waits beneath.
- Jerome Debney: When I'm truly finished, I scrawl the title, the date and my initials. For posterity's sake, you understand.
- Berenice Hollis: [reading the back of a canvas] "The Burnt Orange Heresy."
- Jerome Debney: A favorite.
- Berenice Hollis: What does it mean?
- Jerome Debney: It's a bone tossed to the critics, those ravenous dogs. They can wear themselves out chewing on it. Searching for meaning where there is none.
- Jerome Debney: My mother taught how me to haggle. If you have nothing to lose you must be merciless.
- Jerome Debney: May I be direct, in the modern way? Mr. Cassidy has brought us together. Why, it doesn't matter. He's a collector. And collectors, as we both know, are odd creatures.
- Berenice Hollis: Where are you taking me?
- Jerome Debney: "Come away, O human child! To the waters and the wild."