Michael Barker Quotes (18 Quotes)

It's helpful. The stories say it's wrong because it's one of the year's great movies. So the story is not about the arcane rules of the Academy, but about how good a film 'Cache' is. That gains traction with the audience.

It's obvious the film has strong staying power in urban and suburban areas.

Oscar nominations are really important for a picture of quality, for a film that is not thought of as mainstream. We try to stay true to who we are, I'd like to think it basically says that slow and steady can win the race -- these Academy Award nominations validate that theory.

It's very important for a film like 'Capote.' It gives real posterity to a film. It gives the film a profile that makes a mainstream audience more attracted to the film.

It will turn around. These are strong films that happen to be small. But the public still has plenty of time to find them.

We felt very confident about (Philip Seymour Hoffman's) performance from the very beginning. And we had always planned to expand on February 3, using the strategy of getting the best picture nomination. I think ultimately we will more than double the gross we have now.

We did our job and the jury did theirs. I suspect the jury never could get past the statement he made to the police.

It's very much a family affair Fernanda introduced me to her son-in-law and daughter,

You know, we did our job, and the jury did theirs, and the judge did his. Sometimes this is the outcome.

Boy, that 'Cache' is hanging in there. That's really something. Just think, we're going to be over 1 million on just five cities and we have the whole country to go. The film is going to do great.

David Derrick did the only thing he felt he could do to protect his children.

In order to combat piracy, the American release date will be a lot closer to the release date in the original territory.

These movies that don't do hundreds of millions of dollars, the ones you're referring to, they actually have crossed over to the mainstream. They're not, they're just not doing blockbuster movie business. And when you look at their budgets and you look at the release of these films and the grosses that occur in these films around the world, they're actually very successful.

(Toronto) is one of the best places, if not the best place in North America, to launch films. Journalists from all over are there, and it's the most responsive audience you can wish for. That can be a liability when making an acquisition call but not a liability when you are launching a film and want to show it in the best possible context.

There's never been a film so urgent about America's political situation today, and the response to it has been one of urgency. And there's no harder-working director than Eugene. He's been doing QAs at the screenings.

We were struck by how it avoided sentimentality, in the way the great John Huston movies did.

For people with mental-health diseases, this film makes them feel positive, hopeful and not alone in the world with this problem.

We're becoming more and more selective. There is long-term business in foreign-language films, but it's still very tough.