Enemies, A Love Story (1989)

Paul Mazursky: Leon Tortshiner

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• Leon Tortshiner : I have every reason to be your enemy, Broder. But I tell you right off I'm here for your sake. Have some cheesecake.

• Leon Tortshiner : Did you know your Masha was the lover of a Red Army deserter? Who smuggled gold from Bessarabia? I won't deny it. I am still in love with her. She drives men crazy. Anyway, things went bad for us, and we had been apart for almost two years. When she calls and says she wants to see me. So she comes over all dressed up. Fit to kill, as they say. I had already heard all about you. But she - she told me the whole story, as if it happened only yesterday. How she had fallen in love, she had gotten pregnant, she wants a divorce, blah, blah, blah. She sat down in front of me and crossed her legs - like an actress posing for a photograph. Huh? I said to her, ''You behaved like a prostitute when you were with me, now pay the price.'' She hardly protested. ''We are still man and wife,'' she said. Huh, I guess it's permitted. To this day, I don't know why I did it. Vanity, perhaps. Anyway, I met Rabbi Lembeck, he told me all about you and I realized she had caught you in her net as she had me. Perhaps she's attracted to intellectuals.

• Leon Tortshiner : Every female sits in her own net, like a spider waiting for a fly. If you don't run away, they'll suck the last drop of life out of you.