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"Hamilton Morris: Why don't you want people on your land picking mushrooms? Farmer: Because it's a liability. They're going there and get hurt and turn around and sue you. And I think it's a stupid thing to do. I don't use drugs, and I don't think anybody else should. I think it's a drag on society, and you get these people that are addicted, and all they want to do is to lay around and do damn drugs, and don't go to work, and collect welfare. Hamilton Morris: From mushrooms? Farmer: I don't know what it is. Maybe you start on mushrooms, and then you go to marijuana, and the next thing, you're on crack. I don't know. Maybe it's an entry drug, you know. Do something. Don't be getting out here and making mushroom milkshakes or whatever they do with it, instead of going to work. You know, it's too many good things to do in life besides that."

"Timothy Wyllie: We are all eternal beings, believe me. When you die, you just go on."

"Hamilton Morris: The smell of burning methaqualone brings me back to 2013 when I sat on this very couch, in the company of a gangster, a dealer, and a few white-pipe enthusiasts. I have been fascinated by psychoactive drugs my whole life. I love to study their chemistry and impact on society, and my work has allowed me to investigate extraordinary substances around the world, yet there are still mysteries that remain. But it was here that I found myself on the scent of a trail that would lead me to one of the most astonishing drug mysteries I have ever encountered. This is the story of the South African Quaalude."

"Hamilton Morris: This bouquet of flowers is for Victor Harold Maddox, the chemist who discovered PCP. It contains 25 white roses to signify the 25 hydrogen atoms, 17 black roses for the 17 carbon atoms, and one blue rose for the nitrogen atom.Vic Maddox made a scientific breakthrough when he accidentally discovered PCP, paving the way for the study of NMDA receptors and revolutionizing the history of anesthesia.E. F. Domino once said that humans, in their never-ending quest to explore and discover, may yet find a pot of therapeutic gold at the end of a spectacular and, at times, rather dismal PCP rainbow.On behalf of a world that has misunderstood your greatest discovery, I'm sorry, Dr. Maddox.I'm sorry."

"Hamilton Morris: In order to expedite the unjust punishment of people who use drugs unfamiliar to judges and prosecutors, a system was devised to convert certain substances into chemically and pharmacologically unrelated cannabis equivalents. 1 g of DMT is sentenced as being equivalent to 100 g of marihuana. 1 g of DOM is equivalent to 1.67 kg of marihuana. And 1 g of PCP is equivalent to 10 kg of marihuana."

"Timothy Wyllie: Everything happens intentionally. Nothing is left to chance."

"Mr. Morris has a grinning, laid-back persona, with an approach not dissimilar to Hunter S. Thompson's gonzo journalism. In person Mr. Morris, son of the filmmaker Errol Morris, is bookish and intense, speaking with a fastidious attention to word choice."

"Morris is a good presence on screen – dressed all in white, he has a sort of charming awkwardness not dissimilar to Louis Theroux (they share the same disarming smile) and he allows his subjects plenty of space to tell their stories."

"Hamilton Morris: The night after our meeting, I received a phone call from Timothy. He told me he had a new lease on life and had decided to get married. I was astonished by his change in mood, and wished him well. But when I called him the following week, he didn't pick up. It wasn't until a month later that I received a message saying he had been hospitalized on a trip to Pennsylvania and had died from heart failure. I was also told that on his deathbed, he had left me a gift."

"Hamilton Morris: Do you ever feel bad for these people, or think that maybe they're not bad people? Frank Lyga: No, not at all. You don't have to be a bad person to do criminal activities. We follow the rules and the laws. Nothing personal. I catch you, I catch you. If I don't catch you, I don't catch you."

"David Dimbleby: You couldn't - you couldn't set our minds at rest on the vexed question of what the Sunday Times did actually pay you for the book? Harold Wilson: No, I don't think it's a matter of interest to the BBC or to anybody else. Dimbleby: But why .. Wilson: If you're interested in these things, you'd better find out how people buy yachts. Do you ask that question? Did you ask him how he was able to pay for a yacht? Dimbleby: I haven't interviewed ... Wilson: Have you asked him that question? Dimbleby: I haven't interviewed him. Wilson: Well, has the BBC ever asked that question? Dimbleby: I don't know ... Wilson: Well, what's it got to do with you, then? Dimbleby: I imagine they have .. Wilson: Why you ask these question, I mean why, if people can afford to buy £25,000 yachts, do the BBC not regard that as a matter for public interest? Why do you insult me with these questions here? Dimbleby: It's only that it's been a matter of .. Wilson: All I'm saying, all I'm saying .. Dimbleby: … public speculation, and I was giving you an opportunity if you wanted to, to say something about it. Wilson: It was not a matter of speculation, it was just repeating press gossip. You will not put this question to Mr. Heath. When you have got an answer to him, come and put the question to me. And this last question and answer are not to be recorded. Is this question being recorded? Dimbleby: Well it is, because we're running film. Wilson: Well, will you cut it out or not? All right, we stop now. No, I'm sorry, I'm really not having this. I'm really not having this. The press may take this view, that they wouldn't put this question to Heath but they put it to me; if the BBC put this question to me, without putting it to Heath, the interview is off, and the whole programme is off. I think it's a ridiculous question to put. Yes, and I mean it cut off, I don't want to read in the Times Diary or miscellany that I asked for it to be cut out. [pause] Dimbleby: All right, are we still running? Can I ask you this, then, which I mean, I .. let me put this question, I mean if you find this question offensive then .. Wilson: Coming to ask if your curiosity can be satisfied, I think it's disgraceful. Never had such a question in an interview in my life before. Dimbleby: I .. [gasps] Joe Haines (Wilson's Press Secretary): Well, let's stop now, and we can talk about it, shall we? Dimbleby: No, let's .. well, I mean, we'll keep going, I think, don't you? Wilson: No, I think we'll have a new piece of film in and start all over again. But if this film is used, or this is leaked, then there's going to be a hell of a row. And this must be .. Dimbleby: Well, I certainly wouldn't leak it .. Wilson: You may not leak it but these things do leak. I've never been to Lime Grove without it leaking."

"The BBC is aware of the conventions and practices relating to access to documents of former Prime Ministers and former Cabinet Ministers. The BBC accepts that Mr Harold Wilson conformed with the approved practice and acknowledges that any suggestion to the contrary would be unfounded. It has, however, been represented to the BBC that certain words used in relation to Mr Wilson in the programme Yesterday's Men broadcast on June 17 constitutes an allegation that he has made advantageous use of privileged or secret material in a unjustified fashion in relation to his new book. The BBC had no intention of conveying any such impression, but if the programme was so understood by any viewers the BBC expresses its regret."

"As for the questions to Mr Wilson, the Governors insisted in a programme "devoted to the personal and political problems encountered in opposition, it was permissible and proper for a BBC reporter to ask Mr Wilson what money he received. ..." But that was not, apparently the view taken by the BBC hierarchy immediately after the interview on May 11. On May 12, Mr John Crawley, special assistant to Mr Charles Curran, the Director General, telephoned me to say that he had "no hesitation that the whole of that section will be destroyed, formally lost sight of and forgotten..." I still possess my original shorthand note of that conversation. And Mr Curran seemed to agree. Later in May, he sent to Mr Wilson the BBC tape of the interview saying to the best of his knowledge it was the only copy in existence. He even included an internal memo from the producer of the programme Miss [Angela] Pope, to Mr John Grist, head of BBC current affairs, which stated that the "offending question" was on "Take 240/1." That was the question deleted by the Governors at the last minute and whose transcript was subsequently leaked to the press. The undertaking I thought I had received from Mr Crawley was not the only only one: in the tape donated by Mr Curran, Miss Pope can clearly be heard answering the question whether the offending paragraph would be cut out: "Yes, of course we will.""

"But was the BBC's posture of outraged innocence really justified? It has now admitted that the participants in Yesterday's Men should have been told of the real title beforehand: that the title and presentation changed the character of the film from that originally discussed with trusting politicians: that the theme music coloured the presentation and the participants should have known in advance that Yesterday's Men would invariably be compared with the sycophantic programme about Conservative policies the following night and steps should have been taken "to ensure that they could stand up to such comparison." Despite these damning admissions of misrepresentation and discrimination, there was ... no criticism of it in newspaper headlines. The Guardian was untypical when it proclaimed: "The BBC rejects charges by Yesterday's Men.""

"Labour politicians, particularly Mr Richard Crossman in the New Statesman have adroitly succeeded in emitting such a smoke screen about the so-called misrepresentations to the participants about the nature of the programme that the truly real issue of the right of Mr Wilson to bully producers over what should or should not be included in a programme about him has been conveniently nudged into the background. The facts are that when Mr Wilson insisted that filmed material should be destroyed and that the BBC promise that no leaks about his sensitivity on this matter be leaked to the Press, the question of whether the the programme was trivial or provocative or misleading was not an issue. That came later. ... The row started because Mr Wilson insisted on personally censoring a BBC documentary about himself. Should he be given that right? Has any other citizen that right?"

"Annabeth Gish - Clara Dudley"

"Victoria Pedretti and Violet McGraw - Eleanor "Nell" Crain Vance"

"Timothy Hutton and Henry Thomas - Hugh Crain"

"Elizabeth Reaser and Lulu Wilson - Shirley Crain Harris"

"Carla Gugino - Olivia Crain"

"Michiel Huisman and Paxton Singleton - Steven Crain"

"Robert Longstreet - Horace Dudley"

"Anthony Ruivivar - Kevin Harris"

"Oliver Jackson-Cohen and Julian Hilliard - Luke Crain"

"Kate Siegel and Mckenna Grace as Theodora "Theo" Crain"

"Samantha Sloyan - Leigh Crain"

"Levy Tran - Trish Park"

"Michelle Trachtenberg"

"Dominic Atherton — the child Emperor Valentinian II"

"Francesca Cavallin — the Empress mother Iustina"

"Sonia Aquino — Blesilla"

"Andrea Giordana — Ambrose"

"Götz Otto — Genseric, king of the Vandals"

"Cesare Bocci — Romaniano"

"Katy Louise Saunders — Lucilla"

"Alexander Held — Valerius in old age"

"Sebastian Ströbel — Fabius"

"Monica Guerritore — Monica"

"A man is what he loves. If you love the earth, you will be of the earth. If you love God, you will be of God. As the Scriptures say, "We are all gods and children of God.""

"Alessandro Preziosi — Augustine of Hippo"

"Johannes Brandrup — Valerius"

"Serena Rossi — Khalidà"

"It's not the man who finds the Truth, but the Truth that finds the man, because the Truth is a person - it's Jesus Christ."

"I've always spoken too much. Today for the first time - listened."

"Belatedly I loved thee, O Beauty so ancient and so new, belatedly I loved thee. For see, thou wast within and I was without, and I sought thee out there. Unlovely, I rushed heedlessly among the lovely things thou hast made. Thou wast with me, but I was not with thee. These things kept me far from thee; even though they were not at all unless they were in thee. Thou didst call and cry aloud, and didst force open my deafness. Thou didst gleam and shine, and didst chase away my blindness. Thou didst breathe fragrant odors and I drew in my breath; and now I pant for thee. I tasted, and now I hunger and thirst. Thou didst touch me, and I burned for thy peace."

"Man doesn't find the truth. Man must let the truth find him."

"Yesterday I watched the storks migrate. I envied them. They always know when to leave and which direction to go. Yet, for us so hard to understand what God wants us to do"

"Franco Nero — Augustine in old age"

"Ambitious, lustful, narcissistic - I was all these things and still am, as we all are. As we all are, but not one of us is alone, ever, not even when we're in desperation, bitterness, darkness. God is close to us. God is more brother than any brother. He's more friend than any friend, more lover than any lover"