Afterwards, Ethan""s superior and the IMF Executive Director Theodore Brassel (Laurence Fishburne) chided Ethan about the failed mission to Berlin.Hackenbush appears with his bags at the sanitarium, hands them to Whitmore (regarding him as a bellhop) and tips him with a dime, but is informed:Mrs.We""ve got to be absolutely sure of him.Taylor has politically schemed to enrich his real estate holdings and profits with a scandalously crooked pork barrel bill hat would skim real estate funds from the public purse." But then Max was uncertain and asked for confirmation: "How could a producer make more money with a flop than with a hit?" Leo answered with a term hat has since become a catchphrase in popular discourse:It""s simply a matter of creative accounting.