Diana Christensen
"(on the phone in her apartment) Lou?... Lou... Lou!... YOURE his freaking agent, Lou! I AM COUNTING ON YOU TO TALK SOME SENSE INTO THE LUNATIC! NOBODY WANTS TO HEAR ABOUT DYING DEMOCRACY AND DEHUMANIZATION!... Our share stock is shrinking, and were doomed for! ANOTHER COUPLE OF WEEKS OF THIS AND THE SPONSORS WILL BE BAILING OUT!... Look, this is a breach of contract, Lou! This isnt the Howard Beale we signed! YOU BETTER GET HIM OFF THAT CORPORATE UNIVERSE KICK, OR SO HELP ME, ILL PUT HIM OFF THE AIR! IVE TOLD HIM, LOU, IVE BEEN TELLING HIM EVERY DAY FOR A WEEK! I AM SICK OF TELLING HIM! NOW YOU TELL HIM!"

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Diana Christensen
"Im interested in doing a weekly dramatic series based on the Ecumenical Liberation Army. The way I see the series is: Each week we open with an authentic act of political terrorism taken on the spot, in the actual moment. Then we go to the drama behind the opening film footage. Thats your job, Ms. Hobbs. Youve got to get the Ecumenicals to bring in that film footage for us. The network cant deal with them directly; they are, after all, wanted criminals."

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Diana Christensen
"By tomorrow, hell have a 50 share, maybe even a 60. Howard Beale is processed instant God, and right now, it looks like he may just go over bigger than Mary Tyler Moore."

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Diana Christensen
"Look, I sent you all a concept analysis report yesterday. Did any of you read it? [Aides stare blankly at her] Well, in a nutshell, it said: The American people are turning sullen. Theyve been clobbered on all sides by Vietnam, Watergate, the inflation, the depression; theyve turned off, shot up, and theyve fucked themselves limp, and nothing helps. So, this concept analysis report concludes, The American people want somebody to articulate their rage for them. Ive been telling you people since I took this job six months ago that I want angry shows. I dont want conventional programming on this network. I want counterculture, I want anti-establishment. I dont want to play butch boss with you people, but when I took over this department, it had the worst programming record in television history. This network hasnt one show in the top twenty. This network is an industry joke, and wed better start putting together one winner for next September. I want a show developed based on the activities of a terrorist group, Joseph Stalin and His Merry Band of Bolsheviks, I want ideas from you people. This is what youre paid for. And by the way, the next time I send an audience research report around, youd all better read it, or Ill sack the fucking lot of you. Is that clear?"

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Diana Christensen
"[flipping through the newspaper] You know, Barbara, the Arabs have decided to jack up the price of oil another 20%... uh, the CIA has been caught opening Senator Humphreys mail... theres a civil war in Angola... another one in Beirut... the, uh, New York Citys still facing default... they finally caught up with Patricia Hearst... and the whole front page of the Daily News is Howard Beale."

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Diana Christensen
"Well Max, here we are: Middle-aged man reaffirming his middle-aged manhood, and a terrified young woman with a father complex. What sort of script do you think we can make out of this?"

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Diana Christensen
"[immediately after making love with Max] Whats really bugging me now is my daytime programming. NBCs got a lock on daytime - lousy game shows - and Id like to bust them. Im thinking of doing a homosexual soap opera, The Dykes: The heart-rending saga about a woman hopelessly in love with her husbands mistress."

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Diana Christensen
"I was married for four years, and pretended to be happy; and I had six years of analysis, and pretended to be sane. My husband ran off with his boyfriend, and I had an affair with my analyst, who told me I was the worst lay hed ever had."

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Diana Christensen
"I watched your 6 oclock news today; its straight tabloid. You had a minute and a half of that lady riding a bike naked in Central Park; on the other hand, you had less than a minute of hard national and international news. It was all sex, scandal, brutal crime, sports, children with incurable diseases, and lost puppies. So, I dont think Ill listen to any protestations of high standards of journalism when youre right down on the streets soliciting audiences like the rest of us. Look, all Im saying is if youre going to hustle, at least do it right."

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Diana Christensen
"[shouting] Son of a bitch. Weve struck the motherlode!"

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Diana Christensen
"Look, weve got a bunch of hobgoblin radicals called the Ecumenical Liberation Army who go around taking home movies of themselves robbing banks. Now, maybe theyll take movies of themselves kidnapping heiresses, hijacking 747s, bombing bridges, assassinating ambassadors. Wed open each weeks segment with their authentic footage, hire a couple of writers to write a story behind that footage, and weve got ourselves a series."

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Diana Christensen
"Were kidding ourselves. Full-fledged messiahs dont come in bunches."

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Arthur Jensen
"Good morning, Mr. Beale. They tell me youre a madman."

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Arthur Jensen
"[to Howard] They say I can sell anything; Id like to try to sell something to you."

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"Louise Schumacher: Get out, go anywhere you want, go to a hotel, go live with her, and dont come back. Because, after 25 years of building a home and raising a family and all the senseless pain that we have inflicted on each other, Im damned if Im going to stand here and have you tell me youre in love with somebody else. Because this isnt a convention weekend with your secretary, is it? Or - or some broad that you picked up after three belts of booze. This is your great winter romance, isnt it? Your last roar of passion before you settle into your emeritus years. Is that whats left for me? Is that my share? She gets the winter passion, and I get the dotage? What am I supposed to do? Am I supposed to sit at home knitting and purling while you slink back like some penitent drunk? Im your wife, damn it. And, if you cant work up a winter passion for me, the least I require is respect and allegiance. I hurt. Dont you understand that? I hurt badly."

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