Tex quotes from Midnight Express (1978)

Tex

Boy oh boy, you picked a bad time to fly, Billy. They're guerrillas all over the place blowing up planes and all. They hit four planes in four days. But I guess you young people don't read the news anymore. That, and with our people back home kicking up a shitstorm about the flow of heroin from Turkey...

Billy Hayes

I didn't have heroin. It was just a little hashish.

Tex

That doesn't matter. A drug's a drug.

Billy Hayes

It was only two kilos.

Tex

It doesn't matter if it was two kilos or 200 kilos. The Turks love catching foreigners. They want to show the rest of the world that they're fighting the drug trade.

Billy Hayes

Who are you? What's your name?

Tex

That's not important.

Billy Hayes

Are you with the American consulate here in Istanbul?

Tex

Something like that.

Tex

Do you have a family back home?

Billy Hayes

Yeah, a mother, father, sister and brother living in Babylon, Long Island.

Tex

It's gonna be tough for them. You'll have to tell them about what you're in sooner or later. Say, how much did you pay this joker? The cab driver for the hash you bought?

Billy Hayes

$200. It was my last 200.

Tex

How much did you expect to make if you had brought that stuff back to the USA?

Billy Hayes

I was only gonna share it or sell some of it to by friends. I'm not a pusher. Honest.

Tex

Yeah, right. Selling dope always beats working.

Tex

You got a girlfriend, Billy?

Billy Hayes

Yeah. She was on the plane.

Billy Hayes

She didn't know anything about it. I didn't want her to.

Tex

Lucky girl.

Billy Hayes

She used to say I was the lucky one.

Tex

Let's hope you're right, Billy. Let's hope you're right.