Prick Up Your Ears (1987)

David Cardy: Brian Epstein

Quotes 

• Brian Epstein : [discussing Joe's screenplay for a movie starring The Beatles]  If the boys are all in bed with Susan, this means, as I understand it, that they are all in bed with each other. No, no, no, no, no, no.

  Joe Orton : Why?

  Brian Epstein : Why? Because these are normal, healthy boys.

  Joe Orton : I take it they all sleep together.

  Brian Epstein : They do not.

  Joe Orton : Oh, they're all very pretty. I imagined they just had a good time. Sang, smoked, fucked everything in sight, including each other. I thought that was what success meant.

  Brian Epstein : Mr. Orton, success means... well, it means a respect for the public. Besides one of the boys is happily married.

• Brian Epstein : [discussing Joe's Beatles movie screenplay]  The Beatles are all pursuing the same girl, right?

  Joe Orton : Yeah.

  Brian Epstein : Well, maybe. Knowing the boys as I do, I would say that was, well, iffy.

• Brian Epstein : [discussing Joe's screenplay for a movie starring The Beatles]  On page 53, scene 86, we definitely seem to kiss reality goodbye. "Cut to the boys in bed with Susan, one of them is smoking a joint, he passes it round." Two points there, Joe. One, these boys do not take drugs. They never have taken drugs, they never will take drugs.