Rules Don't Apply Page #7

as long as she was sure that

we had nothin' to do with each other.

(phone buzzing)

I think she thought that if I had been

just one of those girls

you wouldn't have real respect

for my integrity.

- Ah.

- (phone buzzing)

I mean, I guess a girl's always

got a reputation to think about.

Well, I guess a man always

has a reputation to think about.

- (chuckling)

- (phone buzzing)

- Uh...

- Hello?

Mr. Forester?

Mr. Hughes?

Listen, I don't think

there's any real

necessity for us to meet.

I mean, there's no reason

why we can't do this

on the telephone.

Well, let me be plain, sir.

I am not authorized to approve

our venture to lend you

$400 million unless we meet.

(belches)

Mr. Hughes?

Mr. Hughes?

If there's a Stella Starlight script,

you could have fooled me.

Did you look at my screen test?

Mr. Hughes, please just

tell us what bungalow you're in.

It would be so very easy.

We're, we're 14 feet away.

Five feet away? Twenty feet away?

Which one is your bungalow?

We'll come to you!

Uh, Mr. Forester...

I'm sorry, I don't think there's any

need for us to actually meet.

(stammers)

There's no reason why we shouldn't

be able to do this on the telephone.

Mr. Hughes?

Mr. Hughes?

These guys wanna have

a face-to-face meeting with me,

- and then be able to say I'm crazy.

- (phone ringing)

And then I'll have to give up control

of TWA to them. It's just...

Well, maybe you'd teach them a lesson

if you just gave it to them.

Then they could sue me

for a whole lot of money,

and then they may come after

my daddy's company,

and so I really

can't afford to let them

make me some kind

of a psychiatric case.

I would leave this country

and never come back.

I'd leave this country,

and never come back.

You know?

I'd leave this country,

and never come back.

I'd leave this country,

and never come back.

What, I'm not gonna do it.

They just have a face-to-face

meeting with me,

and then call me a nut?

Well, that's ridiculous!

And you have all your

own people around you

who you know you can trust.

May I give you some advice?

Yes.

Never trust anybody.

Not me, not anybody.

They're not your mommy

or your daddy.

The only person

you can trust is you.

Do you have children?

Me? (laughs)

- No?

- No.

I'm afraid that I'm still

more of a son than a father.

But I'll tell you somethin'

very important,

that a couple of limeys

came up with

three or four years ago.

Little thing called DNA,

and we're workin' with it

over at my foundation.

In a sense, you are your father,

because his DNA

is still inside of you.

It keeps goin' on,

and your father had nothing

to say about it.

That's what makes him

still alive.

DNA, deoxyribonucleic acid.

It's got all the genetic

instructions

that cause all of the function

and development of all

known living organisms.

It's the basic,

hereditary material

in human beings,

and it's gonna replicate,

and replicate, and replicate,

whether we want it to or not.

(stammers) You have no choice.

It's just gonna keep going.

It's gonna keep you alive.

What if Stella Starlight sang?

You know, make the movie a musical.

I can sing!

Well, but nobody should have children

if they don't want to.

That's for sure.

Yeah. Well, anyway,

if I lost my daddy's company,

it'd be like losing my daddy.

Those finance people are jackals.

Jackals?

Jackals.

Why should you meet with them?

And so what

if you repeat yourself a lot?

It adds emphasis.

Emphasis?

Have you heard from people

that I'm crazy?

Well, if what you are

is crazy, then,

then give me more crazy!

You're not crazy.

You're just...

Smart.

You are not like other people.

You're an exception.

(telephone ringing)

Hello?

- Mr. Hughes?

- Um...

I am not going to be able

to talk to you until later.

(shouts) What is later?

Thank you. Thank you.

Mr. Hughes?

(phone breaks)

(panting)

Wanna hear

a little song I wrote?

(playing piano)

One day I told my friend

I was terribly blue

Was it far too late to do

What I dreamed I would do

He thought for a moment

then he answered

He said the rules

don't apply to you

([laughs)

In the movies we see

In the shows on TV

And in anthems passionately sung

There's a message that you've got

To keep believing in yourself

But they generally mean

if you're young

You say you're feeling broken

So terribly blue

'Cause it's far too late to do

What you dreamed you would do

But I'll tell you a secret

(sighs)

And I swear to God it's true

You make an old guy courageous, Marla.

Is that a compliment, Howard?

(chuckles)

You're not calling me Mr. Hughes.

Makes me feel so much younger.

(gasps) Good, Howard!

Now, how would you like

to forget about

bringing the entire

American aerospace industry

into the inevitable future

and drive to Palm Springs

in a car?

They say it's like heaven.

If I had a car, I'd drive you there.

All you girls should have cars.

And we should tear up

your term contract

and just make it a picture

a year for three years.

$100,000 a picture, okay?

It doesn't seem real to me.

That's what's real.

You think it's crazy to trust

your gut instinct?

"There is a tide

in the affairs of men,

"which taken at the flood

lead on to fortune.

"Omitted, all the voyage of their life

"is bound in shallows

and in miseries."

Yes.

"There is a time for everything.

"A time to reap and a time to sow.

"A time to abstain from embracing,

"and there is a time to embrace."

(sighs)

We don't need a justice of the peace.

With this ring, I thee wed.

(upbeat rock music playing)

(both grunting)

Wait.

Careful. (clears throat)

Yeah.

Yeah. That's it.

What do you mean

we need time to think?

I just, I mean that...

We've been thinking

since the seventh grade.

(Frank sighs)

I only mean that we should

take a little bit of time.

You know, we're not

in the seventh grade anymore.

I'm just saying it's probably...

(sniffling)

You mean you need time to think.

(bangs table)

(whimpers)

Get me Greg.

Yes, Howard?

- Greg?

- Yes?

I've changed my mind. Get the plane.

I'm going to Vegas in one hour.

Howard, no air...

FORESTER (shouts): Mr. Hughes,

do you want my money?

Do you want my money?

Do you want my money or not?

The hell with TWA,

you son of a b*tch!

We're flying American Airlines

back to New York!

(yawning)

(keys clink)

(sighs)

(engine starting)

- Hi.

- Hi.

Wow!

This is great!

They're giving all the girls cars.

- They told me at headquarters.

- (laughs)

But I can't make mine start.

- Really?

- No.

Do you want me to...

Um...

- It's probably flooded.

- Flooded?

(engine starting)

Yeah. It's flooded.

Um, you have to wait a little.

(engine starting)

(engine revving)

Did somebody give that to you?

(scoffs)

Who gave that to you?

You're a married man, Frank.

- I...

- Who gave that to you?

I can't do this

with you anymore.

I'm seeing someone.

It's private.

I'm not gonna

discuss it with you.

- Hello?

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