Charlie Wilson's War (2007)

John Slattery: Cravely

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• Gust Avrakotos : Promises were made!

  Cravely : Not by me.

  Gust Avrakotos : I've been with the company for twenty-four years. I was posted in Greece for fifteen. I've advised and armed the Hellenic Army. I've neutralized champions of communism. I've spent the past three years... learning *Finnish!* Which would come in handy here in Virginia, and I'm never ever sick at sea. So I wanna know why... I'm not gonna be your Helsinki station chief.

• Cravely : You tell me to go fuck myself and I'm supposed to apologize. You break my window, I'm supposed to apologize?

  Gust Avrakotos : The Helsinki job was mine!

  Cravely : The Helsinki job was not yours. If it was yours, you'd be in Helsinki.

  Gust Avrakotos : Alan Wolfe stood in this office...

  Cravely : Alan Wolfe is no longer the director...

  Gust Avrakotos : It was on the books.

  Cravely : Alan Wolfe is no longer the director of European Operations. He does not make those appointments. I do.

  Gust Avrakotos : Promises were made!

  Cravely : Not by me.

  Gust Avrakotos : I've been with the company for 24 years! I was posted in Greece for 15! Papandreou wins that election if I don't help the Junta take him prisoner! I've advised and armed the Hellenic Army! I've neutralized champions of Communism! I've spent the past 3 years learning Finnish which should come in handy here in Virginia! And I'm never ever sick at sea! So I wanna know why I'm not gonna be your Helsinki Station Chief.

  Cravely : You're coarse.

  Gust Avrakotos : Excuse me?

  Cravely : For Helsinki I need someone with diplomatic skills. You don't have them.

  Gust Avrakotos : Is that right?

  Cravely : That is right. And I don't know why the hell I didn't fire you when you broke my fucking window!

• Cravely : I'm sorry but you can hardly blame the director for questioning the loyalty to America of people that are barely Americans in the first place.

  Gust Avrakotos : Yeah, well, I'd like to take a moment to review the several ways in which you're a douchebag.

  Cravely : Get the fuck out of my office before I end your career, asshole!

  Gust Avrakotos : Yes, sir!

  [to the maintenance guy fixing the window] 

  Gust Avrakotos : Yeah, my friend, I'm gonna need you for a second.

  [smashes the window] 

  Cravely : [shouting]  Goddamn it!

  Gust Avrakotos : My loyalty? For 24 years people have been trying to kill me. People who know how. Now, do you think that's because my dad was a Greek soda pop maker? Or do you think it's because Im an American spy? Go fuck yourself, you fucking child!

• Cravely : Ok. I know it was difficult for you to come in here hat in hand, that's not the kind of... upbringing, I guess is the word I'm looking for, it's not the kind of man you are. I understand that. I'm not looking to humiliate you or exact a price in any way so why don't you just apologize? We'll call it water under the dam and we'll go about our business.

  Gust Avrakotos : Excuse me? What the fuck?

  Cravely : What?

  Gust Avrakotos : What the fuck are you talking about?

  Cravely : Clair George said you were coming in here to apologize.

  Gust Avrakotos : I'm supposed to come in here so you could apologize to me.

  Cravely : According to whom?

  Gust Avrakotos : Clair George.

  Cravely : You told me to go fuck myself. I'm supposed to apologize to you?

  Gust Avrakotos : Also water goes over a dam and under a bridge, you poncy school boy.

  Cravely : Clearly there's been a miscommunication between Clair George and somebody.

• Cravely : And I don't know why the hell I didn't fire you when you broke my fucking window.

  Gust Avrakotos : Oh yes sure you do Cravely.

  Cravely : Look Gust!

  Gust Avrakotos : Yeah you're fucking Roger's fiance, and you know I know.

  Cravely : I'm not... I'm not... I'm not even gonna dignify that with a response.

  Gust Avrakotos : Yeah yeah, you're dignifying her in the ass, at the Jefferson Hotel, Room 1210, but let me ask you, the 3000 agents Turner fired, was that because they lacked diplomatic skills as well?

• Harold Holt : We can't control this thing anymore! The man stood in my office in Islamabad and I told him, "A sudden influx of money and weaponry..."

  Cravely : [Cravely is putting on a Santa costume for the Christmas party just outside his office]  Could you hand me that belt, please? Thank you.

  Harold Holt : I mean, how is it possible that this... congressman... of no particular importance, is doing this by himself?

  Cravely : I will admit, it's not unimpressive.

  Harold Holt : Is this the war we want to be fighting, Henry? Huh?

  Cravely : Harold, whatever he's doing, believe me, it's working.