Bruce Wagner: Self

Quotes 

• Bruce Wagner : You know, this vehicle, it is a stretch, which is, as you know, they nicknamed me, the L.A.P.D. nicknamed me "Stretch" and "Superglue", right?

  James Ellroy : They nicknamed you "Superjew".

• James Ellroy : Right, yeah. But then Tiny Tim could have beaten your father up, too.

  Bruce Wagner : Well, Tiny Tim could have beaten my father up if you would have gotten your dick out of his mouth.

• Bruce Wagner : Los Angeles is my mother country, you know. For better, for worse. It is the place where my father abandoned the family. It is the place where my mother still lives. Los Angeles I despise in many ways, you know, but I can't separate myself from Los Angeles. It is the mother for me, you know, as it is for James Ellroy. The murdered mother, you know? That's what Los Angeles is: The murdered mother.

• Bruce Wagner : Yeah, but at that time, you know, I was like, you know, one of our calls was Dan Blocker, remember from Bonanza, big guy that died.

  James Ellroy : Probably was your tour, right? If you guys had done that, two minutes earlier he'd still be on the Ponderosa.

• James Ellroy : Neither one of us has hair. But you're brilliant.

  Bruce Wagner : We've been shaved.

• Bruce Wagner : Couldn't you see us up there? Retired and on speed, just watching the world go by?

• James Ellroy : Alright, Rose is officially late. We don't tolerate this shit! This shit don't fly with us.

  Bruce Wagner : We're waiting for that feminine element, spanning out its phantom, it's missing, you're howling at it, revoking it, they won't arrive.

• James Ellroy : She had beautiful, beautiful slightly auburn light brown hair. And she was alternately a Beatnik poet and a Christian. In her efforts to stave me off she once said "I only go out with saved guys". I told her I'm a church-going saved guy from Jump Street. She had to reverse her field.

  Bruce Wagner : When she said "I only go out with saved guys", you said "I only go out with shaved girls".