- [first lines]
- Verity: We're all very excited about your script, aren't we David?
- Film Executive: Oh, we all love the script. All of us.
- Verity: It's so wonderful. It's... It's quite fabulous.
- Film Executive: Absolutely
- Verity: It's brilliant, quite brilliant.
- Bernard: Yes, well what initially attracted me to the idea is...
- Verity: [to waiter] Bucks Fizz, please.
- Bernard: ...is there's this unashamedly powerful, socialist epic. And as a director, the way Paul's captured the sheer size of the struggle...
- Film Executive: [to waiter] Anything but a Coca Cola, thank you.
- Bernard: ...millions of people unemployed. Families ripped apart, whole communities on tranquilisers.
- [to waiter]
- Bernard: Thank you. It's... It's... It's magnificent.
- Verity: No, It's smashing stuff. I mean when I got to the end I felt as if I had been through the miners' strike myself.
- Film Executive: Oh absolutely! I mean if we're going to revitalize the British film industry from an American perspective then 'Miners Strike' is undoubtedly the sort of film we should be doing this year.
- Verity: Oh, I agree. It has terrific potential.
- Film Executive: [pause] What about Al Pacino as Arthur Scargill?
- Goldie: Can Pacino box?