We would like to respond to some erroneous statements made today about our film, THE WAR ROOM. These statements alleged certain remarks to Mickey Kantor that simply are not true. The transcript of the scene in question confirms this.
-Chris Hegedus & D A Pennebaker
"THE WAR ROOM" TRANSCRIPT:
GEORGE AND CARVILLE
Indiana, we're ahead.
JACQUELINE
Indiana!
GEORGE
Kentucky.
CARVILLE
Kentucky is five. Michigan is eleven, New York's done.
GEORGE
Holy shit, we're pulling away in Ohio.
CARVILLE
Oklahoma we're up.
GEORGE
Tied in Texas.
CARVILLE
Tied in Texas. It looks good. Now let's just say that. I like the text here.
GEORGE
Can you beep Wendy please? Looks pretty good. Looks pretty good.
MICKEY
Look at Indiana. Wait, wait. Look at Indiana. Forty-two, forty. It doesn't matter if we win. Those people are shitting (oh, excuse me) in the White House. How would you like to be... Look at Texas, go down to Texas.
CARVILLE
Even.
MICKEY
Yeah. Thirty-nine, thirty-nine.
CARVILLE
Perot's kind of holding, isn't he?
GEORGE
He held.
MICKEY
Yeah, he held. His numbers held. I'm sort of surprised, frankly.
The War Room was the name for Bill Clinton's campaign center in Little Rock, Ark. Though the press wasn't usually permitted inside this small warren of chaos, we managed to secure partial access and shot nearly 35 hours of footage there. MORE >
A film by Chris Hegedus and D A Pennebaker
1993, 96 min., color