Billionaire Boys Club (2018) quotes
Director
James Cox.
Cast
Ansel Elgort.
Kevin Spacey.
Taron Egerton.
A group of wealthy boys in Los Angeles during the early 1980s establish a ‘get-rich-quick’ scam that turns deadly.
There are only 17 Bullas on the entire planet, and every single one of them… is locked in a museum.
– Ron Levin
It’s a fake.
– Joe Hunt
But you thought it was an original.
– Ron Levin
Yeah.
– Joe Hunt
And why?… Because the perception of reality… is more real than reality itself…
– Ron Levin
How can you not see how alone I am?
– Sydney Evans
I do! It’s this town! It’s this town. They build you up to tear you down. You’re never good enough. You know how hard it is to keep my stories straight?
– Joe Hunt
What?
– Sydney Evans
The BBC is full of cash. The BBC’s flushed out. Ron Levin’s gone to New York. Ron Levin’s gone for good!
– Joe Hunt
What are you talking about? What does that even mean, “gone for good” ? Where’s Ron Levin?… You know what? I don’t wanna know.
– Sydney Evans
I had been working at Rothschild for a year. When suddenly I found myself thrown in front of a discipline committee and was forced to defend myself. And… I had nothing. 21 stories and none of them good. So I came clean.
– Ron Levin
They take your license?
– Joe Hunt
No, I mean they could have, they should have, but no. Because what I was doing wasn’t illegal… yet. I was ahead of the law. I mean, it was unethical and corrupt. Immoral if you believe in that sort of thing. But it wasn’t illegal, so they had nothing. So guess what they did. They asked me to write the code to prohibit the kind of trading that I had been doing. How brilliant is that? That hearing made me with the SEC. And I realized that day… sometimes the truth is the best lie.
– Ron Levin