“Well, this is where you came in, back at that pool again, the one I always wanted. It's dawn now and they must have photographed me a thousand times. Then they got a couple of pruning hooks from the garden and fished me out... ever so gently. Funny, how gentle people get with you once you're dead.”
More from Charles Brackett
“Never ask a big man for a small favor.”
“I'm walking here! I'm walking here!”
“I am big! It's the pictures that got small.”
“All right, Mr. DeMille, I'm ready for my close-up.”