1941

 

Joel Cairo : 

 I certainly wish you would have invented a more reasonable story. I felt distinctly like an idiot repeating it.

"I don't know how to write a business plan, but I can tell you how to read them: we start at the back and if the numbers are big, we look at the front and see what kind of business it is."
- Tom Perkins

The Maltese Falcon, 1941

Mr. Gutman:

You're a close-mouthed man?

Sam Spade:

No, I like to talk.

Mr. Gutman:

Better and better. I distrust a close-mouthed man. He generally picks the wrong time to talk and says the wrong things. Talking's something you can't do judiciously unless you keep in practice.

John Huston's complete screenplay adaptation of Dashiell Hammett's novel here.

Silicon Valley's Tom Perkins named his sailboat, the world's largest, The Maltese Falcon, which is now for sale for 150 million euros.