Daily Dialogue — August 24, 2018

Helen Tasker: Have you ever killed anyone?
Harry Tasker: Yeah, but they were all bad.

— True Lies (1994), screenplay by James Cameron, based on “La Totale!” screenplay by Claude Zidi and Simon Michaël and Didier Kaminka

The Daily Dialogue theme for the week: Confession.

Trivia: James Cameron originally hired a team of writers to help him come up with the film’s jokes. However, after being mostly unsatisfied with their work, Cameron let them go and decided to try his own hand at comedy. He rewrote the script from scratch and kept only two jokes from the team of writers (one of which being Arnold Schwarzenegger’s famous “You’re fired!” line).

Dialogue On Dialogue: In this scene, Harry confesses he’s been living a double life as a spy. It leads to this very funny exchange.