The Aviator (2004)

Adam Scott: Johnny Meyer

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• Katharine Hepburn : Are you making a Western, Howard?

  Howard Hughes : Yeah. Making a Western. I'm gonna call it "The Outlaw".

  Johnny Meyer : Yeah. And you know what it's about? S-E-X. It's all about S-E-X.

  Howard Hughes : It's a Western. A Western.

  Errol Flynn : You can't have fornication in a Western. It isn't done.

  Johnny Meyer : It's not real sex, skinny, it's movie sex! What "Scarface" did for the gangster picture, "The Outlaw" will do for the Western. Put the sex and guts and blood up there on the screen.

• Howard Hughes : Don't forget, every bill comes to me. They don't pay for anything. Look, those men decide whether or not to fund the plane, so I need them real happy. You do what it takes.

  Johnny Meyer : You betcha, boss.

  Howard Hughes : What about the girls? How are they in the bomb department?

  Johnny Meyer : Well, let's put it this way. It'll be a regular: boob buffet. I don't think the gentlemen from the Air Corps will have any trouble scoring tonight.

• Johnny Meyer : Kate, sweetie, you and Howard ought to cook up a picture - costar with Errol. I could sell that in spades.

  Errol Flynn : That would be marvelous. Howard?

  Katharine Hepburn : I think not. Don't you read Variety, Mr. Meyer? Why, I'm box-office poison. I'm on the outs, the skids, the doldrums, washed-up, day-old fish not worth the eating, so they tell me.

  Errol Flynn : Hell with them. Hell with them, my dear. Soulless pricks to a man, right?