Zodiac (2007) quotes

In the late 1960s/early 1970s, a San Francisco cartoonist becomes an amateur detective obsessed with tracking down the Zodiac Killer, an unidentified individual who terrorizes Northern California with a killing spree.

Doesn’t it bother you that people call you Shorty?
– Robert Graysmith
Doesn’t it bother you that people call you retard?
– Shorty
Nobody calls me that.
– Robert Graysmith
Right.
– Shorty

Just because you can’t prove it doesn’t mean it isn’t true.
– Robert Graysmith
Easy, Dirty Harry.
– Dave Toschi

Does anybody ever call me names?
– Robert Graysmith
What, you mean like retard?
– Paul Avery
Yeah.
– Robert Graysmith
No.
– Paul Avery

I… I Need to know who he is. I… I need to stand there, I need to look him in the eye and I need to know that it’s him.
– Robert Graysmith

I am not the Zodiac. And if I were, I certainly wouldn’t tell you.
– Arthur Leigh Allen

Spit.
– Robert Graysmith
I swallowed it.
– Aaron Graysmith
Why?
– Robert Graysmith
It was minty.
– Aaron Graysmith

What do you do for fun?
– Paul Avery
I love to read.
– Robert Graysmith
Mhmm.
– Paul Avery
Umm, I enjoy books.
– Robert Graysmith
Those are the same things.
– Paul Avery

We met at the movies once.
– Robert Graysmith
I’m sure it was magical.
– Dave Toschi

Paul, are you okay?
– Robert Graysmith
No… but thanks for asking.
– Paul Avery

Can I help you?
– Arthur Leigh Allen
No.
– Robert Graysmith

Hey Bullitt, it’s been almost a year. You gonna catch this fuckin’ guy or not?
– Paul Avery
Go fuck yourself!
– Dave Toschi
Gladly.
– Paul Avery

Do you know more people die in the East Bay commute every three months than that idiot ever killed? He offed a few citizens, wrote a few letters, then faded into footnote… Not that I haven’t been sitting here idly, waiting for you to drop by and reinvigorate my sense of purpose.
– Paul Avery

I’ve been thinking.
– Robert Graysmith
Yeah?
– Paul Avery
Somebody should write a book.
– Robert Graysmith
Somebody should write a fuckin’ book, that’s for sure. About what?
– Paul Avery
About Zodiac. I’ve been thinking, if you put all the information together, maybe you could jog something loose. And then I thought, who better than you? I mean, you know all the players, and you have all of the files.
– Robert Graysmith
Yeah, I lost them.
– Paul Avery
You lost them?
– Robert Graysmith
Or I tossed them. I don’t know, I moved onto a boat.
– Paul Avery

Well, it looks like the real Zodiac Killer… was friendship
– Paul Avery

Have you ever thought Paul Avery might be the Zodiac?
– Informant
Frequently.
– Dave Toschi

Suspect’s negro male adult, who also happens to be a stocky, crew cut caucasian.
– Dave Toschi

Are you sure no one else is in the house?
– Robert Graysmith

Methinks our friend’s a tad bit fuckered in the head.
– Paul Avery

Hey, how do we know that this lead is real?
– Dave Toschi
It’s very real. How do I know? Because I saw it on TV.
– Inspector William Armstrong

Are you alright?
– Robert Graysmith
No. Thanks for asking.
– Paul Avery

Someone should write a fuckin’ book, that’s for sure.
– Paul Avery

Before I kill you, I’m going to throw your baby out the window.
– Zodiac 3

If there’s anything else I could do for you… Maybe I could write you a check.
– Bryan Hartnell