David Weil Quotes (8 Quotes)

Money is coming to look for us. We've been approached by a large number of potential studio partners and potential investment banks.

The only things frozen are the French fries and onion rings. Our oven is built like a Ford Explorer, and we can cook for 5,000 people.

(We had) the author of 'Holes,' Louis Sachar, go to the Staples Center and had 18,000 to 20,000 students go to Regal theaters throughout the country. He (presented) a writing seminar on what it's like to be a writer, what it's like to have your book made into a film.

We're not simply financing a picture and then going to look for distribution. For the most part we're partnering with studio distributors before the films go into production so that we're sharing the upside and sharing the risk. It also gives us a third-party sanity check.

This is no longer in the casual-discussion phase.

What we're trying to do and focus on is really establish Walden as a Good Housekeeping Seal of Approval kind of brand. If they see that name on a film, it will be instant recognition and instant trust and the knowledge that the quality of the product will be of the sort that is beyond question.

Prices fell so much that people owed more on than their mortgages than their homes were worth. They'd drive to the bank and drop off their keys to their homes and just leave.

At a certain point, we are going to have to grapple with the basis of funding a health care system in this country. The current system evolved in a very different economic time.