Well, in a nutshell, it said the American people are turning sullen. They've been clobbered on all sides by Vietnam, Watergate, the inflation, the Depression... They've turned off, shot up and fucked themselves limp and nothing helps.

— Diana Christensen (Faye Dunaway)

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12 seconds sound clip from the Network (1976) movie soundboard.

You can hear this line at 00:15:01.378 in the Blu-ray version of the movie.

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- And maybe they'll take movies of themselves kidnapping heiresses, hijacking 747s, bombing bridges, assassinating ambassadors.

- We'd open each week's segment with that authentic footage, hire a couple of writers to write some story behind that footage and we've got ourselves a series.

- A series about a bunch of bank-robbing guerrillas?

- What are we gonna call it, The Mao Tse-Tung Hour?

- They've got Strike Force, Task Force, SWAT, why not Che Guevara and his own little mod squad?

- Look, I sent you all a concept-analysis report yesterday. Did any of you read it?

- Well, in a nutshell, it said the American people are turning sullen. They've been clobbered on all sides by Vietnam, Watergate, the inflation, the Depression... They've turned off, shot up and fucked themselves limp and nothing helps.

- So, this concept-analysis report concludes the American people want somebody to articulate their rage for them.

- I've been telling you people since I took this job six months ago that I want angry shows. I don't want conventional programming on this network, I want counterculture. I want antiestablishment.

- I don't wanna play butch boss with you people.

- When I took over this department it had the worst programming record in television history.

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