Collateral (2004)

Michael Waxman: Lenny the Dispatcher

Quotes 

• [Max is on the radio dispatch with his boss, Lenny] 

  Max : Yeah, Lenny, what's up? It's me.

  Lenny : Just got off the phone with the cops. Desk sergeant called to check if you brought the cab in?

  Max : Yeah, so?

  Lenny : So, aside from I hate talking to cops, they tell me you crashed the goddamn cab?

  Max : No, no, I got crashed into. I didn't...

  Lenny : Do I care what, where, why? You're paying.

  [Vincent is trying to think of what Max should say next] 

  Vincent : [to Max]  It was an accident. You're not liable.

  Max : It was an accident. I'm not liable.

  Lenny : Bullshit. I'm making you liable. It's coming out of your goddamn pocket.

  Vincent : [to Max]  You tell him to stick this cab up his fat ass.

  Max : I can't do that, that's my boss.

  Vincent : So?

  Max : I need my job.

  Vincent : No, you don't.

• [over the dispatch system] 

  Lenny : Still there? I'm talking to you. Max. Max!

  Vincent : He's not paying you a damn thing.

  Lenny : Who the hell is this?

  Vincent : Albert Ricardo, Assistant U.S. Attorney, a passenger in this cab, and I'm reporting you to the D.M.V.

  Lenny : Let's not, oh, let's not get excited.

  Vincent : Not get excited? How am I supposed to not get excited? Listen, you try to extort a working man. You know goddamn well your collision policy and general liability umbrella will cover the damages. And what are you trying to pull, you sarcastic prick?

  Lenny : Look, I was just trying to...

  Vincent : Tell it to him.

  [to Max] 

  Vincent : Tell him he's an asshole. Go ahead.

  Max : [to Lenny]  You're an asshole.

  Vincent : Tell him he pulls this shit again, you're gonna stick this yellow cab up his fat ass.

  Max : [to Lenny]  And, and next time you pull any shit, I'm gonna... I'm gonna have to stick this yellow cab up... up your fat ass.