Trust (TV Series)

The House of Getty (2018)

Donald Sutherland: J. Paul Getty

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• J. Paul Getty : So, Sarah Getty, your great-grandmother. This is her trust. I buy oil fields. The money from which I invest in shipping. Why pay someone else to transport your own oil? The money from which I invest in refineries. Why pay someone else to process your own oil? The money from which I invest in gas stations. Why pay someone else to pump your own gas? The money from which I invest in hotels, to house my workforce. The money from which I invest back into the trust. The money from which I invest in

  J. Paul Getty III : Buying more oil fields

  J. Paul Getty : You see the beauty of it?

  J. Paul Getty III : It's like a spider's web

  J. Paul Getty : Exactly. For the money spider that just keeps getting bigger and bigger and bigger. It's a self-sustaining system that never pays a cent in tax because it never goes a cent into profit. For the purposes of accounting, Getty Oil runs at a loss, my boy. At a loss. We're so poor, we could get milk tokens from the goddamn British government.

  J. Paul Getty III : So so there's no way of drawing on the trust?

  J. Paul Getty : Not unless you want to pay 70% in taxes. Haven't you been listening?

  J. Paul Getty : Yeah, it's just...

  J. Paul Getty III : Oh, God.

  J. Paul Getty : What's wrong?

  J. Paul Getty III : I can always tell when one of my brood wants money.

  J. Paul Getty : You're right. No, you're right. Hey, to be straight, I am kind of short on money.

  J. Paul Getty III : At the moment, son, you're probably one of the ten richest people in England.

  J. Paul Getty : Yeah, but I don't actually have it.

  J. Paul Getty : No, nor do I, not a cent. The Gettys and the queen of England: we don't do cash.

  J. Paul Getty III : Okay, but, sir, just leveling with you here. I, uh, I ran up some debts in Rome. I made some mistakes. I-I, I really need to just pay them off so I can move on. Live more wisely.

  J. Paul Getty : How much?

  J. Paul Getty III : About $6,000, sir.

  J. Paul Getty : What sort of mistakes?

  J. Paul Getty III : I just went out too much, drank too much, you know, that sort of thing.

  J. Paul Getty : Drugs?

  J. Paul Getty : No, sir. No way.

  J. Paul Getty : You know what drugs have done to our family. To your Uncle George. To your father. I have no time for that nonsense at all.

  J. Paul Getty III : Yeah, I totally understand, yeah

  J. Paul Getty : Women?

  J. Paul Getty III : Yeah.

  J. Paul Getty : Yeah - That's a Getty weakness. I get my women to sign a contract before sex, renouncing all rights.

  J. Paul Getty III : What is it, like, a financial condom?

  J. Paul Getty : I never thought of it that way. Come on, we have a helicopter to catch

• J. Paul Getty : I have three exploratory wells in this sector. Hamish, Rob Roy, and Ivanhoe.

  J. Paul Getty III : Struck oil?

  J. Paul Getty : Not yet. But we will. Probably the most expensive oil in the world to get out of the ground and onshore, but not for long.

  J. Paul Getty III : No?

  J. Paul Getty : Any day now, the Arabs are gonna stop selling us their oil. Which will make this more valuable than gold.

  J. Paul Getty III : Oh, wait, didn't they already try that in 1967?

  J. Paul Getty : They did, young man, they did.

  J. Paul Getty III : Yeah, it didn't work, though, right?

  J. Paul Getty : Not that time. But Arabs very quick learners in my experience. There she goes. Say what you like about the rotten teeth and the dubious sexual habits of the English. They knew a thing or two about succession, keeping the money and the power close, and passing it on down the line. They've lost all that, the English. Gone limp with democracy and unions and human rights, flower power, ban the bomb. They're an old, spent nation; they don't even know it. They still think oil is just stuff that makes their cars go. Oil is everything. Everything. You got up this morning and washed your hair. The shampoo was derived from oil. Your toothbrush is made entirely of oil-based plastic. The jacket's polyester. Made from ethylene. Your sneakers: plastic tops, synthetic rubber soles. All stuck together with an oil-based adhesive.

  J. Paul Getty III : Cotton underpants.

  J. Paul Getty : And they got to the store, how? By donkey or diesel truck?

  J. Paul Getty III : Damn.

  J. Paul Getty : You try doing anything, or being anything, young man, without oil. - It's possible.

  J. Paul Getty III : Granddad?

  J. Paul Getty : Come.