Noah Dietrich quotes from The Aviator (2004)

Noah Dietrich

You just placed the largest order for airplanes in the history of the goddamned planet, Howard!

Noah Dietrich

Now, it's been a great ride. We've had a hell of a lot of fun. But you're losing $25,000 a day doing this. Every day.

Noah Dietrich

Now I'm glad Jack is feeling so sunny about this, but I've seen the books. Now, I'm not just crying wolf this time; we're in serious trouble! You've gotta make a choice. You want to be bankrupted by the big plane or by the big airline?

Katharine

Howard's building a new aeroplane.

Luddie built a birdhouse once!

You may be directing this movie, Howard. But what you're asking- we can't do it!

Howard

Don't tell me I can't do it; don't tell me it can't be done!

The gyro forces are too much here. You send these planes into simultaneous barrel rolls they won't make it!

Howard

It's the goddamn climax of the picture Frank, all right, you make it work! Look, decrease the vertical trajectory if you have to, a Le Rhône rotary won't stall at 60 degrees- I've done it!

Howard, we need to cut that sequence down, we don't have enough cameras.

Howard

No, no we're not cuttin' anything! I'll get those extra cameras, set up for rehearsal's in five!

Noah Dietrich

Mr. Hughes, I'm Noah Dietrich. Your office said I'd find you here.

Howard

Dietrich. You're a man on the come! I read your resume and talked to your references. You know what I'm lookin' for?!

Noah

Well as I understand it you're looking for a second-in-command at Hughes Tools; someone to oversee the financial aspects of the business-

Howard

Yeah, I'm lookin' for somebody to run it and do a damn good job. Look, there's really only one thing you gotta know! My folks... they're gone now! So it's my money! Now what I choose to do with that money may seem crazy to those sons-a-bitches in Houston — and I'm sure as hell it does — but it all makes good sense to me, you got that?

Noah

Got it.

Howard

Good. Now you made what uh... five thousand dollars a year your last job; I'll pay you ten thousand!

Noah

Guess I'll be working twice as hard!

Howard

You'll be workin' four times as hard; I just got you half price, Mr. Dietrich. Welcome aboard. You're my voice now, make 'em understand that- look, some of those fine folks down there still callin' me Junior. You tell 'em its Mister Hughes now!

Noah

So when do we go to Houston?

Howard

We don't. Cholera epidemic in 1913, two thousand dead; whole place is nothin' but pestilential swamp. Typhus, malaria, cholera, yellow fever, you name it they got it. [gestures to the fleet] You see that, Mr. Dietrich? You are lookin' at the largest private air force in the entire world. What do you think of that, now?

Noah

Well... It's your money.

Howard

START 'EM UP!!!

He's getting blood transfusions now, but, uh...

Noah

Whose blood?

I'm sorry?

Noah

Whose blood?

From our stock.

Noah

Oh, he's not gonna like that.

Mr. Dietrich... I doubt he's ever going to like or dislike anything again. I'm terribly sorry.