You need me! You need me badly. Because I'm your last contact with human reality.

Max Schumacher (William Holden)

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

You can hear this line at 01:49:28.772 in the Blu-ray version of the movie.

Quote context

[...]

- Oh, hell, Diana, I knew it was over with us weeks ago.

- Will you go back to your wife?

- I'll give it a try, but I don't think she'll jump at it.

- But don't worry about me. I'll manage. I always have, I always will. I'm more concerned about you. You're not the boozer type. So I figure a year, maybe two, before you crack up. Or jump out of your 14th floor office window.

- Stop selling, Max. I don't need you.

- I don't want your pain. I don't want your menopausal decay and death! I don't need you, Max. Now get out of here!

- You need me! You need me badly. Because I'm your last contact with human reality.

- I love you. And that painful, decaying love is the only thing between you and the shrieking nothingness you live the rest of the day.

- Then don't leave me.

- It's too late, Diana. There's nothing left in you that I can live with.

- You're one of Howard's humanoids and if I stay with you, I'll be destroyed. Like Howard Beale was destroyed. Like Laureen Hobbs was destroyed. Like everything that you and the institution of television touch is destroyed.

- You're television incarnate, Diana. Indifferent to suffering, insensitive to joy. All of life is reduced to the common rubble of banality.

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