Secret Window (2004)

John Turturro: John Shooter

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Quotes 

• John Shooter : You stole my story.

  Mort : I'm... I'm sorry, do I... I don't believe I know you.

  John Shooter : I know that, that doesn't matter, I know you Mr. Rainey, that's what matters. You stole my story.

  [holding out his manuscript to Mort] 

  Mort : You're mistaken. I don't read manuscripts.

  John Shooter : You read this one already. You stole it.

  Mort : I can assure you...

  John Shooter : I know you can. I know that. I don't want to be assured.

  Mort : If you want to talk to somebody about some grievance you feel you may have, you can call my literary agent.

  John Shooter : This is between you and me.

  [sees Chico under him] 

  John Shooter : We don't need no outsiders, Mr. Rainey.

  Mort : I don't like being accused of plagiarism, if that is in fact what you are accusing me of. Chico, inside.

  [Chico goes back inside] 

  John Shooter : I don't blame you for not liking it but you did it.

  Mort : You're gonna have to leave. I have nothing more to say.

  John Shooter : Yeah, I'll go. We'll talk more later.

  [hands the manuscript to Mort to take it] 

  Mort : I'm not taking that.

  John Shooter : Won't do you no good to play games with me, Mr. Rainey. This has got to be settled.

  Mort : So far as I'm concerned it is.

• John Shooter : Thought you didn't smoke.

  Mort : I took it up recently, for my health.

• Mort : What do you want? You wanna kill me? Why don't you just do it? Just kill me.

  John Shooter : No, sir!

• John Shooter : [Mort finds Shooter at the end of the path]  You read it?

  Mort : I did.

  John Shooter : I imagine it rang a bell, didn't it?

  Mort : Oh, it certainly did. When'd you write it?

  John Shooter : I thought you'd ask that.

  Mort : Well, sure. I mean, that's the whole point, isn't it? When two writers show up with the same story, it's all about who wrote the words first. Wouldn't you say that's true?

  John Shooter : I suppose I would. I suppose that's also why I came all the way up here from Miss'ippi.

• John Shooter : [Mort tries to whack Shooter with a shovel, but Shooter grabs the shovel and uses it to shove Mort against the wall]  Do you wanna wake up from one o' your stupid naps 'n find Amy nailed to yer garbage bin? Or turn on the radio one mornin' and find out that she came off secon' best in a match with the chainsaw you keep out 'n the shed? Do ya?

• John Shooter : Are you all right, Mr. Rainy? It sounded like you pitched a fit or something in there.

  Mort : I'm just peachy, Mr. Shooter. How are you?

• John Shooter : [addressing Mort, who just woke up from being unconscious and trying to limp away with an asleep leg]  I would've moved ya, but I didn't wanna wake ya. Got tired of waitin'. Almost pinned a note on ya, decided not to. You scare too easy.

• John Shooter : You strike me as the kind of guy who's on the lookout for a head he can knock off with a shovel.

• John Shooter : I was 'bout to pin a note on you and leave but I know you startle easy.

• [Mort wakes up from having fainted. He looks at his watch with his vision blurred] 

  John Shooter : Quarter past two.

  [Mort gasps] 

  John Shooter : You been out 'bout three hours.

  [Mort tries to get up, but falls over on his right leg] 

  John Shooter : Your leg's sleepin'. You lay on the damn thing. I wouldn't go very far if I was you!