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. |
She has plenty of respect for money when it comes to buying one of her films! |
The longer you keep a film in the theaters, the more value it'll have down the line. |
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 Q&As at the screenings. |
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. |
We did our job and the jury did theirs. I suspect the jury never could get past the statement he made to the police. |
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 were struck by how it avoided sentimentality, in the way the great John Huston movies did. |
We're becoming more and more selective. There is long-term business in foreign-language films, but it's still very tough. |
You know, we did our job, and the jury did theirs, and the judge did his. Sometimes this is the outcome. |