Interview with Christine Everhart and Tony Stark:
CHRISTINE EVERHART: [running up to the car and being held back by security]
Mr Stark! Excuse me, Mr Stark! Christine Everhart, Vanity Fair magazine. Can I ask you a couple of questions?
HAPPY: (whispers to Tony)
She's cute.
TONY:
She's all right? (whispered) [turns around to face Christine when Happy nods] Hi.
CHRISTINE:
Hi.
TONY:
Yeah. Okay, go.
CHRISTINE:
You've been called the da Vinci of our time. What do you say to that?
TONY:
Absolutely ridiculous. I don't paint.
CHRISTINE:
And what do you say to your other nickname, ''The Merchant of Death''?
TONY:
That's not bad... Let me guess. Berkeley?
CHRISTINE:
Brown, actually.
TONY:
Well, Ms Brown. It's an imperfect world, but it's the only one we've got. I guarantee you, the day weapons are no longer needed to keep the peace, I'll start making bricks and beams for baby hospitals.
CHRISTINE:
Rehearse that much?
TONY:
Every night in front of the mirror before bedtime.
CHRISTINE:
I can see that.
TONY:
I'd like to show you first-hand.
CHRISTINE:
All I want is a serious answer.
TONY:
Okay, here's serious. My old man had a philosophy, ''Peace means having a bigger stick than the other guy.''
CHRISTINE:
That's a great line coming from the guy selling the sticks.
TONY:
My father helped defeat the Nazis. He worked on the Manhattan Project. A lot of people, including your professors at Brown, would call that being a hero.
CHRISTINE:
And a lot of people would also call that war profiteering.
TONY:
Tell me, do you plan to report on the millions we've saved by advancing medical technology or kept from starvation with our intelli-crops? All those breakthroughs, military funding, honey.
CHRISTINE:
You ever lose an hour of sleep your whole life?