Tasty Mystery Baskets of Clips

God, you guys are so smart. It's like a brain factory in here.

We should be headed southeast.

Oh, thanks, Charlie.

I know. Just for fun...

these plants are all endangered, sir. Every one of them.

- Have a seat. - Susan Orlean's here?

I'd want to remain true to that.

writing about flowers, and bang! The movie begins.

come around and just,

you know, understand me.

We've got five kinds of bromeliad,

And that's the ghost.

I've written myself into my screenplay.

- That for real would go in? - Absolutely.

Well, I love listening to you play.

Maybe you could get your brother to help you with the orchid thing.

Crazy White Man!

The key lime pie, please.

You and I share the same DNA.

There's genocide, war, corruption.

- It's amazing. It's... - What's in it?

It doesn't make any sense. Any fucking sense.

Yeah, smartest guy I know, huh?

People find love. People lose it.

I've given over, like, 60 lectures on the cultivation of plants.

how accomplished you are in horticulture.

Must be her husband.

Saw you at the courthouse, that's how I know.

I'm putting in a chase sequence. So the killer flees on horseback with the girl.

Said she couldn't be sure. Laroche had a certain aromatic look about him.

my whole life is looking for a goddamn profitable plant, see?

Hey, I think I should play me.

is that I'm immersed in them,

Kaufman, trying to get a writing assignment,

- Laroche is a fun character. - Absolutely.

More a reflection of the real world.

Susie said she hoped it was fertilizer, anyway.

- You wanna make it into a movie? - Into a movie.

one of, what, 40 in the entire world?

But, anyway, it's my problem. I don't want to bore you.

to a more manageable size.

I can't believe I got shot. Isn't that fucked up?

Did you eat lunch?

It'll ground you to think about the bigger picture, about nature and stuff.

it's not really doing anything for you anymore.

jerks off to the book jacket photo of Susan Or...

You have your stuff, right? I mean, we both have our own separate stuff.

Find an ending. But don't cheat.

Have you checked out Laroche's porn site?

was a paper ball and a glass of water.

I'd skin-dive to find just the right ones.

As repugnant as you and I, as white conservationists, find his actions.

It's not building, you know, one of your model airplanes.

and making it about drug running.

Maybe she's a lesbian and doesn't know how to tell him.

Well, I was a weird kid.

with the State of Florida versus James E. Billie?

Yeah, I'll take you in.

Nobody even seems to know my name.

But I'll still be ugly, though.

for personal hygiene.

Mom called it psychologically taut.

Anybody who says he's got "the answer" will attract desperate people,

Shut up. Stop laughing.

One looks like a gymnast.

Victorian-era orchid hunter William Arnold

That's not enough. I mean, I wanted to write about flowers.

- Charlie? - Charlie!

Then one day I say, fuck fish.

Can I ask you a personal question?

I'm telling you. Finally pulling out of debt.

My mom and I had the largest collection

People started coming out of the woodwork to ask me stuff

- You seem chipper. - I'm good. I have some new ideas.

- You don't know... - I can't have him writing about me.

A battered white van speeds along, making a sharp, skidding right

I can see your sadness.

I'm a hero, the flowers are saved,

Cut her down, Russell.

Okay, that's it. One hour for lunch.

I would be the screenwriter who speaks Chinese. And plays the oboe.

I just wanna remind you it's been 13 weeks

Are you a former Fulbright Scholar?

with a nose 12 inches long to pollinate it.

Charles, what's the matter? You okay?

Kaufman, repugnant, ridiculous,

Susan Orlean. Nice to meet you.

and just wiped out everything I had left.

- Hey. - Caroline.

A principle says, "this works and has through all remembered time".

The script kind of makes fun of me, huh?

What do you think?

Orchids. I love orchids.

After the insect flies off,

I just... Nobody.

- I can't remember... - It's called an epiphyte.