The China Hustle Movie Script

It's broken.

Let's get out of this.

This is a mistake for me.

It's a mistake for the people that depend on me.

I've got a firm.

I've got people that work for me.

I owe them my best opportunity to give them a living.

And, this doesn't help.

This hurts.

So I want out of this.

Well, I'm not... This is not an attack piece on you, sir.

It doesn't help... That's not, that's not my intention, nor is that... Uh, I thought I could do this in an academic way, but I realize I can't.

You know?

I... China is fundamentally a broken or f***ed-up societal system.

The people who get to the top, get to the top by breaking rules.

Good people who want to play by the rules, get stepped on and pushed to the bottom of the pile.

This, in some ways, has nothing to do with China.

If you gave American management teams that incentive structure, oh, my God, we'd have the same amount of fraud here.

It was just a no-brainer for them.

Bulls versus bears, constantly.

And now that I'm deemed a bear, I don't know if I'm ever gonna be able to go back to the bull side.

But, no regrets working for them.

My clients made money.

People get lost.

I think it happen anywhere in the world.