directed by Martin Scorsese
, written by John Logan
, and starring Leonardo DiCaprio
. It is the story of aviation pioneer Howard Hughes
, drawn largely upon numerous sources including a biography by Charles Higham
.
The film centers on Hughes' life from the late 1920s to 1947, during which time he became a successful film producer and an aviation magnate while simultaneously growing more unstable due to severe obsessive-compulsive disorder
.
Show me all the blueprints.
If the Hercules does not fly, I will leave America and never come back again, and I mean it.
He owns Pan-Am. He owns Congress. He owns the Civil Aeronautics Board. But he does not own the sky.
Quarantine. Q-u-a-r-a-n-t-i-n-e. Quarantine.
I'm Howard Hughes, the aviator.
Sometimes I truly fear that I... am losing my mind. And if I did it... it would be like flying blind.
Find me some clouds!
The way of the future.
I sleep...in this room...in the dark. I have a place I can sleep. I have a chair. That's just beautiful. Oh, yeah. I like the desert. It's hot there in the desert, but it's clean. It's clean. I need to sleep. I should drink something first. I should drink something first. Wait a minute. What if that milk is sour? That milk is bad. I shouldn't pick up the bottle of milk with my right hand. And I shouldn't take the top off with my left hand...put it in my pocket. My left pocket.
Tell Jimmy I want ten chocolate chip cookies, medium chips, none too close to the outside.