chinatown

• evelyn mulwray: (faye dunaway): what were you doing in chinatown?
  jake gittes (jack nicholson): working for the district attorney.
  evelyn mulwray: doing what?
  jake gittes: as little as possible.
  evelyn mulwray: the district attorney gives his men advice like that?
  jake gittes: they do in chinatown.
  
  noah cross (john huston): exactly what do you know about me?
  jake gittes: mainly that you're rich, and too respectable to want your name in the newspapers.
  noah cross: of course i'm respectable. i'm old. politicians, ugly buildings, and whores all get respectable if they last long enough.
  
  loach (dick bakalyan): what happened to your nose, gittes? somebody slammed a bedroom window on it?
  jake gittes: nope. your wife got excited. she crossed her legs a little too quick.
  
  gibi nefis diyaloglarla akilda kalan, yonetmenin de ufak bir cameo ile gozuktugu, 30'larin los angeles'inde gecen, harika bir polisiye-film noir.