Sunset Blvd. (1950)

Fred Clark: Sheldrake

Quotes 

• Betty Schaefer : Oh, I'm sorry, Mr. Gillis, but I just didn't think it was any good. I found it flat and trite.

  Joe Gillis : Exactly what kind of material do you recommend? James Joyce? Dostoyevsky?

  Betty Schaefer : I just think that pictures should say a little something.

  Joe Gillis : Oh, one of the message kids. Just a story won't do. You'd have turned down Gone With the Wind.

  Sheldrake : No, that was me. I said, "Who wants to see a Civil War picture?"

• Betty Schaefer : So, you take plot 27A, make it glossy, make it slick?

  Sheldrake : Eh-eh-eh-eh. Those are dirty words. You sound like a bunch of New York critics.

• Sheldrake : Of course, we're always looking for a Betty Hutton. Do you see it as a Betty Hutton?

  Joe Gillis : Frankly, no.

  Sheldrake : No, wait a minute. If we made it a girls softball team. Put in a few numbers. Might make a cute musical: "It Happened in the Bullpen - A Story of a Woman".

• Sheldrake : That'll be all Miss Kramer... Schaefer.

  Betty Schaefer : Goodbye, Mr. Gillis.

  Joe Gillis : Next time I'll write you "The Naked and the Dead".

• Sheldrake : Well, seems like Zanuck's got himself a baseball picture.