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Vyvyan: Look, here comes the postman.
Mike: Vyvyan, why do you keep telling us what's just about to happen next?
Vyvyan: Because it's a studio set, Michael, and they can't afford any long shots.

"Tor plays a Russian scientist caught in a desert atomic test that transforms him into a monster. A monster who, thanks to the radioactive powers of abysmal filmmaking, has the uncanny ability to creep up on people without triggering their peripheral vision and who can materialize in the backseats of cars."
Michael Adams, Showgirls, Teen Wolves, and Astro Zombies: A Film Critic's Year-Long Quest to Find the Worst Movie Ever Made

Alex: Yeah, I've been wondering about Palom and Porom. They've been lying catatonic since "This Was Your Life" finished up.
Fake Cecil: You speak as though you can see them through solid stone.
Alex: Of course I can. They're on the same screen as I... You know, that is pretty $#@%'ed up now that I think about it.

"The editor likes him."
—On Warden Morgan's appearing/disappearing in plain view, DVD Audio Commentary, The Dresden Files

"Buster's world is flat and governed by one law: if the camera can't see it, than the characters can't see it either. In Buster's world, the characters are limited by the sides of the frame and by what's visible to us, the audience. And this allows him to do jokes that make sense visually, but not logically."

Producer Guy: How'd she manage to sneak up on him in a car?
Screenwriter Guy: By being offscreen until *suddenly* she isn't.

"Tooth, I'm gonna make this up to you: ah don't care if that Wienermobile is a million miles away, or if it is right there—(camera zooms out to reveal the vehicle is literally right down the street) which it is, we gon' get ya to that Wienermobile."
Foxxy Love, Drawn Together ("Wooldoor Sockbat's Giggle-Wiggle Funny Tickle Non-Traditional Progressive Multicultural Roundtable!")

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