- Miramax Executive: What makes me most angry is the silence. No one spoke out then, and no one is talking about it now. He built the silence, and people complied. He produced fear and intimidation. The only alternative, seemingly, was to quit, and throw away everything you worked so hard for out the door. You were terrified you were going to be the next target, so people looked the other way.
- Laura Madden: I feel like it dictated a certain direction my life took. That I just felt that it was this huge error in judgement that sort of marked me, and all my decisions. And I felt such shame that I let him do that. It was like he took my voice that day. Just when I was about to start finding it.
- Man 1 at Bar: Pardon me, excuse me? Hi, hello. Did you see my friend over there? He said hi.
- Megan Twohey: Could you leave us? We're talking.
- Man 1 at Bar: [smirks] I absolutely will. I totally understand but, I would just think, I could maybe...
- Megan Twohey: Alright, we're having a conversation, so if you could just...
- Man 1 at Bar: You should be doing something else, so...
- Megan Twohey: [laughs] Fuck you.
- Man 1 at Bar: Fuck you? I would bend you over...
- Megan Twohey: [smashes her hand on the table] FUCK YOU! Fuck you man, get the fuck out! Fuck you!
- Megan Twohey: The only way these women are going to go on the record.
- Jodi Kantor: Is if they all jump together.
- Jodi Kantor: In your previous stories, how did you persuade women to tell you what had happened to them?
- Megan Twohey: Yeah, so... it's difficult. They're terrified. A case I made was, "You know, I can't change what happened to you in the past, but together we may be able to use your experience to help protect other people." The truth, basically.
- Harvey Weinstein: Is Gwyneth Paltrow in the story?
- Megan Twohey: She's not in the story!
- Dean Baquet: She's not in the story!
- Jodi Kantor: Do you wish you hadn't signed up for this story?
- Megan Twohey: Do you?
- Jodi Kantor: [firmly] No.
- Megan Twohey: [chuckles] No.
- Jodi Kantor: You take the lead on this.
- Megan Twohey: No, you do it. You're less intimidating.
- Jodi Kantor: You don't find me intimidating?