Basic Instinct

"[To Beth] My sex life is actually pretty shitty after I stopped seeing you. [He shows her his palm] I started developing callouses. I haven't had a drink in three months. I'm working my ass off. I'm off the sauce. I even stopped smoking. Now, will you tell I.A. I'm just your average, healthy, totally fucked up cop and let me out of here... please?"

"[To Nick] Killing isn't like smoking. You can quit."

"[To Nick] Well, she got that magna cum laude pussy on her that done fried up your brain!"

"A brutal murder. A brilliant killer. A cop who can't resist the danger."

"Flesh seduces. Passion kills."

"Michael Douglas – Police Detective Nick "Shooter" Curran"

"Sharon Stone – Catherine Tramell"

"George Dzundza – Gus Moran"

"Jeanne Tripplehorn – Dr. Beth Garner"

"Denis Arndt - Lieutenant Phillip Walker"

"Leilani Sarelle - Roxanne "Roxy" Hardy"

"Bruce A. Young - Andrews"

"Chelcie Ross - Captain Talcott"

"Dorothy Malone - Hazel Dobkins"

"Wayne Knight - John Correli"

"Daniel von Bargen - Lieutenant Marty Nilsen"

"Stephen Tobolowsky - Dr. Lamott"

"Benjamin Mouton - Harrigan"

"Jack McGee - Sheriff"

"Bill Cable - Johnny Boz"

"William Duff-Griffin - Docteur Myron"

"James Rebhorn - Dr. McElwaine"

"the lesbian community is under siege, we always try to present to the heterosexual community the idealized version, but I do not think that's a good way to do it, even though I can understand where it's coming from. ("Valerie Miner talked about the kinds of self-censorship she finds in her work when she starts thinking she should present only positive images of lesbians or working-class people.") Yes. In that poem and also in the poem "Night Voice" I do that. There's this whole controversy now over media images of lesbians and gays and bisexuals. It's brought out in movies like Basic Instinct and Silence of the Lambs where they are presented as killers. It comes up in the novels of P. D. James, where she has these criminals who are lesbians or gay men. And I hate that. But, at the same time, I want the dirty laundry to be out there, whether it's on the Mexican culture or the lesbian culture or the bisexual. And I'm not sure how you do that."