Dennis Boutsikaris Quotes

Screenplay Writer How do I write this? Sometimes I think that this could be a fairy tale. Not the "happily ever after" type that we tell each other to make ourselves feel better, but one of those strange dark tales where monsters eat little children. And it would begin the usual way: Once upon a time there were two little girls...and, oh, they loved to skate. But there came a day when joy and love were not enough.

Screenplay Writer Tonya the Bad"...one Tokyo promoter tried to get her to wrestle on the Japanese circuit for millions of dollars, as "Tonya the Terrible". See, some fairy tales don't have a happy ending.

Screenplay Writer They're victims of those the media serve, they're victims of us.

Screenplay Writer Tonya and Nancy...we imprisoned them both in images that we use to sell soup, and newspapers, and Olympic Games, and TV movies.

Screenplay Writer What I kept wondering was why was America so obsessed? And if all the rumours and all the speculation was true, how could it come to pass that one young woman could be so desperate for an Olympic medal that she would try to maim the competition?

Dr. Weitzman There's about 65,000 seats up at that stadium. But I don't want you to get your hopes up, because they're all screwed down.

Screenplay Writer Imagine how it would feel to know that 100 million people want you to fall. Imagine how it would feel knowing that, if you fall, you would fail 100 million people.

Screenplay Writer Character, some say, is ]. And plot is what we do, not what's happened to us or how we've suffered, but what we do.