The Ray Bradbury Theater (TV Series)

The Murderer (1990)

Bruce Weitz: Albert Brock

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Quotes 

• Albert Brock : You're wondering why it's so quiet in here.

  Dr. Arnold Fellows : Yes.

  Albert Brock : I just kicked the radio to death.

• Albert Brock : Excuse me.

  [bites Dr. Fellows' radio and destroys it] 

  Albert Brock : Welcome to tranquility.

  Dr. Arnold Fellows : This will cost you $300.

  Albert Brock : I don't care.

  [turns around singing] 

  Albert Brock : I don't care, I don't care.

• Dr. Arnold Fellows : But the phone is useful, essential to all our lives, couldn't you adjust?

  Albert Brock : Why are we always adjusting to machines? They're like spoiled kids always making demands. We're adults, we should have control over them. And the telephone just sits there and demands to be used.

• Albert Brock : Remember what happened when cellulars first came in? At first they were just supposed to be used for emergencies: if you got stuck in traffic or had a breakdown. But then people couldn't resist using them, they always were calling, calling, and if it wasn't the telephone, it was the television and the radio, AM/FM, or the VCR, or the computer or the fax machine. Or the Walkman or the watchman, or the discman, or the motion pictures at the corner multiplex, and THEN larger than life in your own living room commercials coming at you from all directions and phone polls and junk fax!

• Dr. Arnold Fellows : Suppose you tell me when you first started to hate the telephone.

  Albert Brock : Oh at first I loved them, I mean when I was growing up we had them all over: in the kitchen, the bathroom, in our cars. Then when I was 16 my folks gave me my first video phone. Only it was so new no one else in town had one, so I had nobody I could call. But then, Emily Foster, prettiest girl in town got one, started to get real close. But the phone changes you, even it has a picture, it drains your personality so what comes through the other end is some cold fish of a voice. Saying the wrong things, changing the meaning on you, next thing you know, you've made an enemy.