Lakeboat (2000)

Tony Mamet: Dale Katzman

Quotes 

• Dale Katzman : You know, it's surprising what people will convince themselves is interesting.

  Dale Katzman : ...Company guests, comin' on for a trip -- we're docked at Port Arthur -- up there on the boat deck for an hour, hour and a half, looking at the crane lift the lids off the hold. Just watching. The dust was flying and it was hard to breathe but they're just standing there. People got cameras, they're takin' pictures of a crane lifting a lid. What's so interesting about that? I'd like to know.

  Dale Katzman : ...You describe the situation to any normal people, they wouldn't walk across the hall to watch it if the TV were broken. But there they are, guests of the company, standing on the boat deck for an hour and a half, watching the crane lift the lid off the hold.

  First Mate Collins : ...Maybe they see something I don't. Maybe I'm getting jaded. What are they looking at?

  First Mate Collins : What are you looking at? You're looking at them.

  Dale Katzman : That's perfectly correct.

  First Mate Collins : It's all a matter of perspective.