Daily Dialogue — August 7, 2010

“Garbage. All I’ve been thinking about all week is garbage. I mean, I just can’t stop thinking about it.”

 — Ann Bishop Mullany (Andie McDowell), Sex, Lies, and Videotape (1988), written and directed by Steven Soderbergh

The Daily Dialogue theme for the week is notable opening lines from a movie.

Trivia: Steven Soderbergh gave the producers a list of possible titles for the film, including “46:02”, “Retinal Retention”, “Charged Coupling Device”, “Mode: Visual”, “Sex, Lies, and Videotape”, and “Hidden Agendas”. Soderberg was heavily in favor of “46:02” (the supposed running time of the tape Ann makes for Graham; the running time appears in the script but not in the final film), but the producers chose “Sex, Lies, and Videotape” immediately.