Key quotes from Chinatown
Criminality Quotes
MAN WITH KNIFE: You're a very nosy fellow, kitty cat. Huh? You know what happens to nosy fellows? Huh? No? Wanna guess? Huh? No? Okay. They lose their noses. (Flicks knife, cutting open Jake's nost...
Family Quotes
GITTES: Is there something upsetting about my asking about your father?EVELYN: No!... Yes, a little. You see Hollis and my fa—my father had a falling out...GITTES: Over the water department -- or...
Greed Quotes
GITTES: Look, pal—I make an honest living. People don't come to me unless they're miserable and I help 'em out of a bad situation. I don't kick them out of their homes like you jerks who work in...
Injustice Quotes
FARMER: You steal the water from the valley, ruin the grazing, starve my livestock— who's paying you to do that, Mr. Mulwray, that's what I want to know!
Manipulation Quotes
BAGBY: Gentlemen, today you can walk out that door, turn right, hop on a streetcar and in twenty-five minutes end up smack in the Pacific Ocean. Now you can swim in it, you can fish in it, you can...