[Given the uncertainty in both financial markets and audience desires, the business has played it safe.] They look at the business as a business, ... They're out to make money. |
[Titanic also was able to stay on top for so long because of repeat viewers.] What makes a movie work, ... is it resonates with where the world is at the time, and every once in a while everything just hits the right note. And Titanic was such a movie. People felt good when they saw it, told everyone else to see it, and then if they really liked it, saw it again. |
30 to 40 minutes. |
Bob became a dear friend to all of us. We will miss Bob's laugh, his sense of humor and his fighting spirit. Our sympathy and support go out to his family and to all those who knew and loved Bob. His pioneering spirit will long live on in the fight against heart disease. |
But it's going to be up to him. I'm just speculating now ... but I think at least a couple of weeks, maybe a little bit longer, |
He's anxious to get out and show the world that he's just a normal guy that kind of had a bad set of circumstances fall on him and how he was able to deal with that. I think he wants to get a little stronger and feel more confident, ... But I think [he'll be released] relatively soon. |
He's coming along very nicely, |
He's just happy to be here with us and happy to be able to breathe without any effort and get up and so forth, |
I thought that was a surprise. 'Cold Mountain' and [director Anthony] Minghella were kind of left out. |
If someone had said at two weeks' time after surgery you would be at this point -- 'What do you think about that?' -- we would have said 'Fine, we'll take it,' |
It's phenomenal. It's what we had hoped for, but we often hope for the best possible scenario. You don't often get it, but in this case we got it. |
Our hope is that he lives months or years, |
probably within a month's time. |
That's something that simply doesn't happen anymore. |
They look at the business as a business. They're out to make money. |