Margin Call (2011)

Demi Moore: Sarah Robertson

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• 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, speciality in propulsion, from MIT, with a Bachelor's from Penn.

  Jared Cohen : What is a 'specialty in propulsion,' exactly?

  Peter Sullivan : My thesis was a study in 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.

• Sarah Robertson : I didn't think they were going to be able to get you back here.

  Eric Dale : Well, they told me they were going to drag me through hell on everything for the next two years - my options, my healthcare. Or I could come back here and make, uh, 176,471 dollars an hour to sit quietly in this room. Didn't seem like much of a choice.

  Sarah Robertson : It never is.

• Sarah Robertson : We were wrong.

  Jared Cohen : You mean *you* were wrong.

  Sam Rogers : I'm heading for the conference room.

  Jared Cohen : I want you to hear this.

  Sam Rogers : I don't want to hear this. How do you think I've stuck around this place so long?

• Sarah Robertson : At the time, it didn't seem like there was much of a choice.

  Eric Dale : It never does.