The Aviator (2004)

Danny Huston: Jack Frye

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• Howard Hughes : [pensively weighing options]  I could do that.

  Jack Frye : Do what?

  Howard Hughes : Buy it.

  Jack Frye : You wanna *buy* the airline?

  Howard Hughes : Well why not? We don't want a bunch of pencil-pushers gettin' in the way of us makin' our plane now do we?

  Jack Frye : No...

  Howard Hughes : [walking away]  You call Noel Dietrich. You tell him to start buying!

  Jack Frye : [yelling after him in shock]  Hang on Howard! You sure you don't want to stop and think about this for a second?

  Howard Hughes : Nope! I've got a tiger by the tail here and I'm not about to let go!

• Jack Frye : You want me to bribe senators?

  Howard Hughes : I don't want them bribed, Jack. I want this done legal. I want them *bought*.

• Howard Hughes : What does 20,000 feet give you?

  Jack Frye : Less turbulence.

  Howard Hughes : Right, because it's above the weather. Jack, we wanna fly *above* the weather. Only one percent of the American population has set foot on an airliner. Why? Because they're scared to death, Jack, and they should be. I mean, 7,000 feet is bumpy as shit. You know that. We build a plane that flies above the weather - we could get every man, woman, and child in this country to feel safe up there. An airplane with the ability to fly into the substratosphere across the country, across the world; now, that is the future.