Daily Inspiration Quote by Dennis Farina

It is a very Dennis Farina moment: blunt, practical, and quietly moral. He is not delivering a speech about grief or patriotism. He is talking about a mundane postproduction decision, which is exactly why it lands. After 9/11, pop culture went through a panicked scrub cycle, airbrushing the Twin Towers out of establishing shots as if erasure could pass for sensitivity. Farina frames that instinct as both pointless and a little dishonest.

The key move is the phrase "they were going to take out". In the industry, it means edit or digitally remove. In New York after 2001, it also echoes the language of destruction. That double meaning sharpens the tension: removing the towers in a romantic comedy is an attempt to avoid reopening a wound, but it risks repeating the act symbolically, turning absence into a kind of policy.

"Ed told them no" is the most revealing line. It implies a small act of resistance by Ed Burns (the filmmaker) against corporate caution and audience management. Farina is pointing to an argument about what realism owes the public: New York is not just a vibe; it is an archive. The towers were part of its skyline, part of its memory, part of how a city located itself in the world. To deny that is to let trauma rewrite the historical record.

Underneath, there is a blue-collar ethic: you do not fix pain by pretending it never existed. You acknowledge what was there, even in a light movie, because the city deserves to be seen as it was.