Boogie Nights

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Boogie Nights is a 1997 film about a young porn star as he enters the industry in the late 1970s in California, and deals with the highs and lows of success into the 1980s.

Written and directed by Paul Thomas Anderson.
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[edit] Dirk Diggler

  • What can you expect when you're on top? You know? It's like Napoleon. When he was the king, you know, people were just constantly trying to conquer him, you know, in the Roman Empire. So, it's history repeating itself all over again.
  • You're not the boss of me, Jack. You're not the king of Dirk. I'm the boss of me. I'm the king of me. I'm Dirk Diggler. I'm the star. It's my big dick and I say when we roll. You know what? I'm the biggest star here, man. That's the way it is! I want to fuck! It's my big dick! So, everybody get ready fuckin' NOW!
  • [Final lines] I'm a star. I'm a star, I'm a star, I'm a star. I am a big bright shining star. Yeah, that's right.

[edit] Jack Horner

  • [to Dirk] I got a feeling that behind those jeans is something wonderful just waiting to get out.
  • This the the film they're going to remember me by.
  • We're about to make film history, right here... on videotape.

[edit] Reed Rothchild

  • [as Chest Rockwell] Let's get some of that Saturday night beaver.

[edit] Roller Girl

  • [to Amber in a documentary about Dirk] He can fuck really hard or he can fuck really gently. He's the best.

[edit] Buck Swope

  • See this system here? This is Hi-Fi... high fidelity. What that means is that it's the highest quality fidelity.

[edit] Floyd Gondolli

  • I like simple pleasures, like butter in my ass, lollipops in my mouth. That's just me. That's just something that I enjoy.

[edit] Dialogue

Floyd Gondolli: This here's the future. Videotape tells the truth.
Jack Horner: Wait a minute. You come into my house, my party, to tell me about the future? That the future is tape, videotape, and not film? That it's amateurs and not professionals? I'm a filmmaker, which is why I will never make a movie on tape.
Eddie Adams: Jack, I was thinking about my name, y'know?
Jack Horner: Yeah?
Eddie Adams: I was wondering if you had any ideas.
Jack Horner: I've got a few, but you tell me.
Eddie Adams: Well, my idea was, y'know, I want a name, I want it so it can cut glass, y'know, razor sharp.
Jack Horner: Tell me.
Eddie Adams: When I close my eyes, I see this thing, a sign, I see this name in bright blue neon lights with a purple outline. And this name is so bright and so sharp that the sign - it just blows up because the name is so powerful... It says, "Dirk Diggler." What do you think?
Jack Horner: I think...that's a great name.
[in a scene from "Brock Landers: Angels Live In My Town"]
Dirk Diggler: [as Brock] You still hungry?
Jessie St. Vincent: Starving.
Dirk Diggler: [unzipping his pants] Then feast on that.
[Amber and Rollergirl are high on cocaine]
Amber Waves: I miss my two sons, you know. I miss my little Andrew... and I miss my Dirk. I always felt like Dirk was my baby. My new baby. Don't you miss Dirk?
Rollergirl: Yeah.
Amber Waves: He's so fucking talented, the bastard. You know, I just... I love him, Rollergirl. I really love the stupid jerk. [laughs]
Rollergirl: [in tears] I love you, Mom. I want you to be my mom, Amber. Are you my mom? I'll just... I'll ask you if you're my mom, and you say yes, okay? Are you my mom?
Amber Waves: [smiles] Yes, honey. Yes, yes. [They embrace, both crying]
Dirk Diggler: Look, man, all we need is the tapes, all right?
Record Producer: No, you don't get the tapes until you've paid.
Dirk Diggler: In our situation, that doesn't make any fucking sense.
Reed Rothchild: Look, we cannot pay for the tapes, unless we take the tapes to the record company, and get paid.
Dirk Diggler: Hello? Exactly.
Record Producer: That's not an MP, that's a YP, your problem. Come up with the money, or forget it.
Reed Rothchild: Okay, now you're talking above my head. I don't know all of this industry jargon, YP, MP, whatever. All I know is that I can't get a record contract, we cannot get a record contract unless we take those tapes to the record company. And granted, the tapes themselves are a uh um oh, you own them, all right, but the magic that is on those tapes. That fucking heart and soul that we put onto those tapes, that is ours and you don't own that. Now I need to take that magic and get it over the record company. And they're waiting for us, we were supposed to be there a half hour ago. We look like assholes, man.
Dirk Diggler: Let me explain to him in simple arithmetic. One, two three! Because you don't fuckin' get it, Burt! You give us the tapes. We get the record contract. We come back and give you your fuckin' money. Have you heard the tapes? Have you even heard them? We're guaranteed a record deal. Our stuff is that good!
Record Producer: Now I get it. Now I understand. You want it to happen... but it's not going to happen. Because it's a Catch-22.
Dirk Diggler: What the fuck does that mean? What is a Catch-22, Burt?
Record Producer: Catch-22, gentleman. Think about it.
[pause]
Dirk Diggler: You know what I'm thinking about, man? I'm thinking about kicking some fuckin' ass!

[edit] Taglines

  • Everyone has one special thing.
  • The life of a dreamer, the days of a business, and the nights in between.

[edit] Cast

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