“A desk job.  Is that all you see in it?  Just a hard chair to park your pants on from nine to five?  Just a pile of papers to shuffle around and a sharp pencil and a scratch pad to make figures on, with maybe a little doodling on the side?  That’s not the way I see it, Walter.  To me a claims man is a surgeon, and that desk is an operating table, and those pencils are scalpels and bone chisels.  And those papers are not forms and statistics and claims for compensation.  They’re alive!  They’re packed with drama, with twisted hopes and crooked dreams.  A claims man, Walter, is a doctor and a bloodhound and a cop and a judge and a jury and a father all in one.”

-Edward G. Robinson, talking to Fred McMurray, in Double Indemnity, MGM, 1941