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Margin Call is a american film of genre Drama directed by J. C. Chandor released in USA on 21 october 2011 with Kevin Spacey

Margin Call (2011)

Margin Call
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Will Emerson

Facebook Share this quote on facebook You know, the feeling that people experience when they stand on the edge like this isn't the fear of falling - it's the fear that they might jump.

Facebook Share this quote on facebook Jesus, Seth. Listen, if you really wanna do this with your life you have to believe you're necessary and you are. People wanna live like this with their cars and big fuckin' houses they can't even pay for, then you're necessary. The only reason that they all get to continue living like kings is because we got our fingers on the scales in their favor. I take my hand off and then the whole world gets really fuckin' feral really fuckin' quickly and nobody actually wants that. They say they do but they don't. They want what we have to give them but they also wanna, you know, play innocent and pretend they have no idea where it came from. Well, that's more hypocrisy than I'm willing to swallow, so fuck 'em. Fuck normal people. You know, the funny thing is, tomorrow if all of this goes tits up they're gonna crucify us for being too reckless but if we're wrong, and everything gets back on track? Well then, the same people are gonna laugh till they piss their pants cause we're gonna all look like the biggest pussies God ever let through the door.[Seth: You think we're wrong?] No. They're all fucked.

Facebook Share this quote on facebook Don't beat yourself up on this, Eric. Some people like taking the long way home. Who the fuck knows?

John Tuld

Facebook Share this quote on facebook Please, speak as you might to a young child or a Golden Retriever. It wasn't brains that got me here, I can assure you that.

Facebook Share this quote on facebook There are three ways to make a living in this business: be first, be smarter, or cheat.

Sam Rogers

Facebook Share this quote on facebook Remember this day, boys. Remember this day.

Facebook Share this quote on facebook Thank you all for coming in a little early this morning. I know yesterday was pretty bad and I wish I could say that today is going to be less so, but that isn't going to be the case. Now, I'm supposed to read this statement to you all here, but why don't you just read it on your own time and I'll just tell you what the fuck is going on here. I've been here all night, meeting with the Executive Committee, and the decision has been made to unwind a considerable position of the firm's holdings in several key asset classes. The crux of it is, in the firm's thinking, the party's over as of this morning. There's going to be considerable turmoil in markets for the foreseeable future, and they believe it is better that this turmoil begins with us. As a result, the firm has decided to liquidate its majority position of fixed-income MBS...today. These are your packets, you will see what accounts you're responsible for today. I'm sure it hasn't taken you long to understand the implications of this sale on your relationships with your counterparties and, as a result, on your careers. I have expressed this reality to the Executive Committee, and they understand. As a result, if you achieve a 93% sale of your assets, you will receive a $1.4 million one-off bonus. If the floor, as a whole, achieves a 93% sale, you will get an additional $1.3 million apiece. For those of you who have never been through this before, this is what the beginning of a fire sale looks like. I cannot begin to tell you how important the first hour and a half is going to be. I want you to hit every bite you can find: dealers, brokers, clients, your mother if she's buying. And no swaps. It's outgoing only, today. Obviously, this is not going down the way that any of us would have hoped, but...the ground is shifting below our feet. And, apparently, there's no other way out.

Peter Sullivan

Facebook Share this quote on facebook Look at these people. Wandering around with absolutely no idea what's about to happen.

Eric Dale

Facebook Share this quote on facebook I run Risk Management. I don't really see how that's a natural place to start cutting jobs.

Dialogue

Facebook Share this quote on facebook Sarah Robertson: But is this your draft?
Peter Sullivan: Yes. Again, expanded on the original work by Mr. Dale. But, yes.
Sarah Robertson: What's your background?
Peter Sullivan: My background?
Sarah Robertson: Your CV?
Peter Sullivan: I've been with the firm for two and a half years, working with Eric that whole time. But I hold a doctorate in engineering, specialty in propulsion, from MIT with a bachelor's from Penn.
Jared Cohen: What is a specialty in propulsion, exactly?
Peter Sullivan: My thesis was studying the ways that friction ratios affect steering outcomes in aeronautical use under reduced gravity loads.
Jared Cohen: So, you're a rocket scientist?
Peter Sullivan: I was. Yeah.
Jared Cohen: Interesting. How did you end up here?
Peter Sullivan: Well, it's all just numbers really. Just changing what you're adding up, and, to speak freely, the money here is considerably more attractive.

Facebook Share this quote on facebook Peter Sullivan: Will? Did you really make two and a half million last year?
Will Emerson: Yeah, sure.
Peter Sullivan: How did you spend it all?
Will Emerson: It goes quite quickly. You know, you learn to spend what's in your pocket.
Seth Bregman: Two and a half million goes quickly?
Will Emerson: All right, let's see. So the taxman takes half up front, so you're left with one and a quarter. My mortgage takes another 300 grand. I send 150 home for my parents, you know, keep them going. So what's that?
Peter Sullivan: 800.
Will Emerson: All right, 800. Spent 150 on a car. About 75 on restaurants. Probably 50 on clothes. I put 400 away for a rainy day.
Seth Bregman: That's smart.
Will Emerson: Yeah, as it turns out, 'cause it looks like the storm's coming.
Peter Sullivan: You still got 125.
Will Emerson: Yeah, well, I did spend $76,520 on hookers, booze, and dancers. But mainly hookers.
Peter Sullivan: 76.5?
Will Emerson: I was a little shocked initially, but then I realized that I could claim most of it back as entertainment. it's true.

Facebook Share this quote on facebook Sam Rogers: The real question is: who are we selling this to?
John Tuld: The same people we've been selling it to for the last two years, and whoever else would buy it.
Sam Rogers: But John, if you do this, you will kill the market for years. It's over.
[John nods grimly]
Sam Rogers: And you're selling something that you know has no value.
John Tuld: We are selling to willing buyers at the current fair market price.
[Sam lowers his gaze]
John Tuld: So that we may survive.
Sam Rogers: You would never sell anything to any of those people ever again.
John Tuld: I understand.
Sam Rogers: Do you?
John Tuld: Do you? [pounding on the desk] This is it! I'm telling you this is it!

Facebook Share this quote on facebook John Tuld: Since when you have you gotten so soft?
Sam Rogers: Fuck you, soft. You're panicking.
John Tuld: If you're first out the door, that's not called panicking.

Facebook Share this quote on facebook John Tuld: Sam, I don't think you seem to understand what your boy here has just said.
John Tuld: If I made you do it, how would you do this?
Sam Rogers: You call the traders in for their normal meet, because they're going to know it's the end either way.
Sam Rogers: You're going to have to throw them a bone, and a pretty big one.
Sam Rogers: And then you've got to come out of the gates storming. No swaps. No nothing.
John Tuld: So, you're telling me that all your trades have to be gone because by lunchtime, huh?

Facebook Share this quote on facebook Peter Sullivan: Are you sure it's the only or the right thing to do?
Sam Rogers: For whom?
Peter Sullivan: I'm not sure.
Sam Rogers: Neither am I.

Facebook Share this quote on facebook John Tuld: So, what you're telling me is that the music is about to stop and we're going to be left holding the biggest bag of odorous excrement ever assembled in the history of capitalism.
Peter Sullivan: Sir, I'm not sure that I would put it that way. But let me clarify.
Peter Sullivan: Using your analogy, what this model shows is the music, so to speak, just slowing.
Peter Sullivan: If the music were to stop, as you put it, then this model wouldn't be even close to that scenario.