The Goodies (TV Series)

Movies (1975)

Tim Brooke-Taylor: Tim Brooke-Taylor

Quotes 

• Bill : [after watching an old film]  There! Now why don't they make good FILMS like that anymore? With people like Buster Keaton, Lavatory Meadows...

  Graeme : Lavatory Meadows?

  Tim : [tiredly]  He means W. C. Fields.

  Bill : What I said!

• Tim : [addressing the film directors in the style of a school master]  Sit down because I've got a lot to say to you. I said sit down, please. *Sit!* That goes for you too, Kubrick. I and my colleagues have just spent 18 hours marking your work and we extremely displeased. It is not the sort of thing we expect these studios to be turning out. Stop giggling, Zeffirelli. We can honestly say that 50 percent of what we have been watching has either been extremely boring or extremely pretentious, and in many cases both... yes I am looking at you, Fellini! Don't do that at me. It simply is not enough to stick together a few unrelated images, a white faced clown and half a dozen dwarves and expect to win the Cannes Film Festival. Well yes, I know you did. You may be able to con the Froggies but you don't impress me. Now one thing... Warhol, will you stop filming me when I'm talking. Which brings me to the subject of sex, perversion and... Warhol, I shan't tell you again... and violence. I'm simply will not... give me that camera. Come on, give me that camera!

  [takes Warhol's camera] 

  Tim : There seems no point in me going on. Clearly none of you has a responsible attitude. You've brought the whole studio, in fact the whole industry into... I'm ashamed of you! You're all fired. Yes, that's what I said. You're *all fired!* If you're going to cry, Russell, kindly go outside. All of you get out! Go on, I never want to see any of you ever, *ever again!*