Finding Forrester (2000)

F. Murray Abraham: Crawford

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• Prof. Robert Crawford : [to Jamal]  Perhaps your skills do reach farther than basketball.

  Jamal : "Further"

  Prof. Robert Crawford : What?

  Claire Spence : [whispered to Jamal]  Don't...

  Jamal : [to Crawford]  You said that my skills reached "farther" than basketball. "Farther" relates to distance, "further" is a definition of degree. You should have said "further".

  Prof. Robert Crawford : Are you challenging me, Mr. Wallace?

  Jamal : Not any more than you challenged Coleridge.

• Prof. Robert Crawford : Perhaps the challenge should have been directed elsewhere. "It is a melancholy truth that even...

  Jamal : "great men have poor relations" Dickens.

  Prof. Robert Crawford : "You will hear the beat of..."

  Jamal : Kipling.

  Prof. Robert Crawford : "All great truths begin..."

  Jamal : Shaw.

  Prof. Robert Crawford : "Man is the only animal...

  Jamal : "that blushes... or needs to." That's Mark Twain.

  Jamal : Come on, Professor Crawford...

  Prof. Robert Crawford : [shouting]  Get out!

  Prof. Robert Crawford : [whispered]  Get... out.

  Jamal : Yeah. I'll get out.