Matthew Macfadyen: John Birt
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Quotes
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[from trailer]
David Frost : I've had an idea for an interview: Richard Nixon.
John Birt : You're a talk show host. I spent yesterday watching you interview the Bee Gees.
David Frost : Weren't they terrific?
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Bob Zelnick : What about wiretapping?
John Birt : How many people has he wiretapped?
James Reston, Jr. : This guy wiretapped 17 people.
John Birt : 17?
Bob Zelnick : Including his own brother. But you know what? We can't ask him about his brother, 'cause frankly, if Donald Nixon was my brother, I'd wiretap him too.
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John Birt : Don't worry. David is a performer of the highest caliber who has been in pressure situations many times before. Come the hour, he'll be fine.
James Reston, Jr. : [Birt exits] Did he say..."performer"?
Bob Zelnick : Yes.
James Reston, Jr. : That was the word he used?
Bob Zelnick : Yes, he said "performer".
James Reston, Jr. : Not "journalist"? Or "interviewer"?
Bob Zelnick : No, he said "performer".
James Reston, Jr. : Out of interest... where are you at this moment. Psychically?
Bob Zelnick : I am imagining the dust, the darkness, the agony, and the unimaginable loneliness of the wilderness I am about to be dispatched to by my Washington political colleagues.
