My Salinger Year (2020)

Sigourney Weaver: Margaret

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• Margaret : Jerry likes you. I am reluctant to alter his routine.

  Joanna : I don't wanna be a routine.

• Joanna : My condolences, Margaret.

  Margaret : I'll pull my socks up.

• Margaret : I'm sure you've heard that he's crazy or senile or a misanthrope, all lies. He's not the problem. It's these people who relentlessly call for his address, his phone number, asking to be put in touch with him. Or, even with me. Reporters, students, university deans, producers. They can be persuasive, manipulative, but you must never ever give out his address. Do you understand?

• Joanna : So there are no computers?

  Margaret : We choose not to use computers. I've seen them in action. They just make more work for everyone, wasting time.

• Margaret : Writers make the worst assistants. Get to work.

• Margaret : But, do you type on a typewriter? It's very different from typing on one of those computers.

• Margaret : Tabs wrong, margins wrong, proper names wrong, really, everything wrong. You can start retyping today.

• Joanna : So Salinger doesn't get any of his mail?

  Hugh : Not one. You shred them in the shredder.

  Margaret : You should always read them.

  Hugh : Yes, indeed.

  Margaret : Just in case.

  Hugh : Just in case.

  Joanna : In case of what?

  Margaret : We've been extra careful since the Mark David Chapman thing.

  Hugh : John Lennon's assassin. When the police arrived at the Dakota, they found Chapman calmly sitting on the sidewalk reading, "Catcher In The Rye".

• Joanna : How did you end up working for Playboy?

  Margaret : Enough chit chat, Joanna. Back to work.

• Margaret : You are confusing judgment with empathy.

• Joanna : You will not regret this.

  Margaret : We'll see about that.

• Margaret : [to Joanna]  We will celebrate at lunch.

  Max : Hope you like martinis.

  Margaret : Oh, she'll learn to like them.