Gene Hackman: We know where we’re going.
Quinta Brunson: We are not playing—you know?
Hackman: No, not at all. Fifty takes and all that.
Brunson: I just refuse to be inhibited.
Hackman: Yes. Yes, you listen and something happens with you while you're listening, and then you give something back.
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Brunson: You know, the younger generation, we may not have as strong of a bond with religion as some of the older generation, but that's because we felt like we didn't need as strong of a bond.
Hackman: I thought you were talking about plastic surgery for a second.
Brunson: I think it's an individual choice to make.
Hackman: I think that it's a give and take. But it just makes me very nervous.
Brunson: So it's always a toss-up. That was exciting.
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Hackman: There's a whole process, sense memories, and effective memories, where you go back and you get yourself relaxed and you think in terms of where you were and what you were wearing, and what the temperature was.
Brunson: You know, in first grade, all the other kids were watching, like, Disney movies on Friday. We watched Amistad.
Hackman: From my childhood, Captain Blood. China Syndrome. Do you remember that?
Brunson: (laughter) That's a controversial joke, didn't you know?
Hackman: Well, maybe I just didn't -- I should have done my homework.