MOVIES - April 30, 1991

Make My Dialogue: Writer-director John Milius, who has created some memorable movie dialogue, tells Playboy he knows when he has a good line. “I got a little tingle,” he says, after penning Clint Eastwood’s “This is a .44 Magnum, the most powerful handgun in the world” speech in “Dirty Harry.” Milius also wrote “I love the smell of napalm in the morning” for Robert Duvall in “Apocolypse Now.” “When I wrote that, I thought it would be the first thing cut. . . . And when I saw the movie, I thought, ‘This stuff is over the top.’ . . . Duvall delivered it just wonderfully.”