The Burnt Orange Heresy (2019)

Donald Sutherland: Jerome Debney

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Quotes 

• Jerome Debney : My mother taught how me to haggle. If you have nothing to lose you must be merciless.

• Jerome Debney : You've shaved your beard. You must grow it back. It adds character.

• Jerome Debney : If you are an egg, I hope you'll be careful.

  Berenice Hollis : Trust me, I'm anything but an egg.

  Jerome Debney : Do you know the saddest egg of all? The egg that believes it's a stone.

• Jerome Debney : May I be direct, in the modern way? Mr. Cassidy has brought us together. Why, it doesn't matter. He's a collector. And collectors, as we both know, are odd creatures.

• Jerome Debney : I saw blue once. Genuine blue, you understand. Platonic blue. In a pool much like this. I was underwater, staring upwards at the sky. And perhaps it was merely a deficit of oxygen. But for a moment - blue. I've been searching for it ever since.

• Jerome Debney : What power lurks in metaphors.

• Berenice Hollis : Where are you taking me?

  Jerome Debney : "Come away, O human child! To the waters and the wild."

• Jerome Debney : "Such sweet sorrow."

  [exits] 

• Berenice Hollis : When I got to Italy, I thought, "Why not? Play the whore for a little while. See how it feels."

  Jerome Debney : And does it suit you? This new mask?

  Berenice Hollis : Turns out, I'm all right at it.

  Jerome Debney : You have to be careful, my dear. A mask can be a perilous thing. When I take mine off at night, another waits beneath.

• Jerome Debney : When I'm truly finished, I scrawl the title, the date and my initials. For posterity's sake, you understand.

  Berenice Hollis : [reading the back of a canvas]  "The Burnt Orange Heresy."

  Jerome Debney : A favorite.

  Berenice Hollis : What does it mean?

  Jerome Debney : It's a bone tossed to the critics, those ravenous dogs. They can wear themselves out chewing on it. Searching for meaning where there is none.