Movieland Quotes

“You learn how to coerce people to do your bidding . . . willingly.”
― Lee Goldberg, Movieland

“This needed to be handled with finesse, but you have all the finesse of the Hulk on meth.”
― Lee Goldberg, Movieland

“The house looked to her like the ugly offspring from a drunken one-night stand between a farmhouse and a Quonset hut.”
― Lee Goldberg, Movieland

“Because it was a tool of death,” she said, “and this is a place of purity, peace, and harmony.”
― Lee Goldberg, Movieland

“Scarlett Johansson?” Orkett said. They all looked at him. He shrugged. “She would be a surprise, that’s all I’m saying.” “Here’s a surprise,” Eve said. “So is the Malibu Sniper.” “How do you know?” Orkett asked.”
― Lee Goldberg, Movieland

“Well hell, glad to be of service to our community,” Orkett said and smiled at Eve. “Is it true a crooked deputy shot you, threw you off a cliff, and you climbed back out and shot him?”
― Lee Goldberg, Movieland

“She’s suffered much worse than that,” Duncan said. “Take a good, hard look at her.” All heads turned to Eve. “She’s only twenty-six years old. She’s bruised, scarred, and filled with bird shot. How many times has she been in the hospital in the last five months? How many of her bones has she broken? She’s paying a steep price for her bad decisions and is too arrogant and self-destructive to realize it.”
― Lee Goldberg, Movieland

“You really think you can get away with punishing a detective who was shot by a deputy and two days later, despite her wounds and her place getting firebombed, caught the killer of a city councilman? She has your balls in a vise and knows it.”
― Lee Goldberg, Movieland

“He didn’t give me any choice. Don’t you see? Your futures, your lives, would have been ruined. But if he was dead, the FBI had no case. You had a chance of coming out of this unscathed.”
― Lee Goldberg, Movieland

“Unless we can turn someone else,” Oakland said, “it’s as dead as Netter is.”
― Lee Goldberg, Movieland

“You will defend me against the Pruitts’ lawsuit and officially state, for the record, that my conduct was appropriate, professional, and within policy.” “That’s the general counsel’s decision to make, not mine.” “Then you’d better convince him, or I will file a lawsuit against the sheriff’s department for repeatedly trying to kill me.”
― Lee Goldberg, Movieland

“Detective Pavone, I’m Harold Spivey, Kim’s father. I believe the park is a killing field and I know my daughter wouldn’t have camped there if she’d known about the shootings. Nobody would.”
― Lee Goldberg, Movieland

“They don’t realize that it takes tax dollars to keep a city afloat and you can’t get taxes from weeds and trees. But you can from hotels and other businesses. All my father wanted was a reasonable balance between nature and development and was killed for it.”
― Lee Goldberg, Movieland

“Jayda, you know what that sounds like to me? A desperate rationalization to soothe a guilty conscience.” “Your opinion is meaningless, Detective. Adultery isn’t a crime and telling his wife about our purely carnal relationship now would only add to her pain.”
― Lee Goldberg, Movieland

“Akiko Sakurai, one of the surviving partners, wore a sleek black dress that made her look to Eve like an assassin in a Netflix movie rather than an accountant.”
― Lee Goldberg, Movieland

“Eve had to admire her for that jab. Simone wasn’t intimidated and she was also right. Nepotism wasn’t a good look, either.”
― Lee Goldberg, Movieland

“Shut away, drugged up, and silenced,” Faust said. “I’m sure that’s exactly what you’d prefer, because you don’t want me, or anyone else, revealing the truth.”
― Lee Goldberg, Movieland

“Karma,” Duncan said, “will always piss on your new shoes.”
― Lee Goldberg, Movieland

“think two cops sucking hard at Hollywood’s tit are in no position to be giving me any shit for offering a courtesy to a studio exec.”
― Lee Goldberg, Movieland

“Yeah,” Snell said, waving a Ferrari past the truck but looking at Eve as he did it, “the same people you’re giving blow jobs to every day to get your TV show. The only difference between you and Detective Garvey is that he earned his badge and doesn’t have to betray other cops to get ahead.”
― Lee Goldberg, Movieland

“How often do you provide this important service for people who aren’t zillionaires, celebrities, or Hollywood power players?”
― Lee Goldberg, Movieland

“And those deadbeat fathers weren’t supporting their kids, either.” Her mom had terrible taste in men, and poor judgment, and was the maker of most of her own troubles, but Eve wasn’t going to concede a thing to this man. For the sake of this discussion, her mom was a saint.”
― Lee Goldberg, Movieland

“Nine. You have nine. With seven different women. How many of those women did you marry? Zero. How many of those children have your name? Zero. How many of those kids did you visit?”
― Lee Goldberg, Movieland

“I’ve given you a fucking road map to the asshole who shot me and killed Kim and you want to talk about Raylene? Do your job.”
― Lee Goldberg, Movieland

“So the fact that you’re sleeping with Raylene’s ex, and accusing her of being too crazy to lead the fight for the causes she cares about, must feel like a double betrayal to her.”
― Lee Goldberg, Movieland

“I understand your pain, but you’re disclosing too much and making it harder to do our jobs.”
― Lee Goldberg, Movieland

“Duncan said, “Unless it’s an actor, rapper, or politician who gets shot.”
― Lee Goldberg, Movieland

“I didn’t say Zena pulled the trigger, but Kim’s murder is still on her. She thrives on generating hate. You could spend the rest of your life talking to her enemies.”
― Lee Goldberg, Movieland

“Because Zena is irrational and unreasonable, that’s obvious from what she wrote. She’s not going to listen to me. But she’d listen to Kim.”
― Lee Goldberg, Movieland

“No offense, but there have been enough cop shows about white, middle-aged, male homicide detectives. But we’re going to stay honest to your reality.” Simone glanced at Eve. “Especially yours.”
― Lee Goldberg, Movieland