Bruce Snyder Quotations

I'm astounded at how popular Ruby has become. There's still a large gap where you're going to need enterprise-level features and that's still missing.

I think we'll have few surprises this season. I don't know that we'll catch up. But we should have some movies to be proud of.

I think Fox's secret is like Warner's secret: It was the product we put out this year. It worked and people wanted to see it. It's a matter of the mix of movies and we were fortunate.

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We believe the efficiency, image quality and, most importantly, the overall movie going experience will be greatly enhanced through these...digital projection systems.

We were right in the middle of the Sahara Desert. It was really spiritual in a lot of ways. It was fabulous.

We lost close to $1.5 million yesterday and I'm sure we'll lose another $2 million at least today.

We think it's an important movie for the young female audience and will be perfect counter-programming against all those event movies.

At some point, you just have to say you'll stop worrying about the comparisons and start over next year.

I've told NFL guys, 'If you don't want him on your team, don't take him, because he won't let you cut him,'

It was an unknown quantity. People didn't know the story, didn't know about the performances. It needed to be in theaters and get people talking before they were going to buy a copy to keep forever.

Rather than being one of five blockbusters in June, we wanted to be the one right now and that's what's happened, It's still fantastic with a blizzard going on. All the pictures got clobbered and will get clobbered today. But what are you going to do? That's June in February. It was June in February for two days. On the third day, it became February!

The breakdown is wonderful -- 56 percent male and 44 percent female, which for something that starts out as a comic book is pretty amazing. The demographics on age are also surprising -- 48 percent under 25 and 52 percent over 25. That, I think, has to do with the spectacular reviews. The playability of the movie is wonderful and it's a great kickoff to summer.

Although we strongly support a more significant increase, we have to look at what's going on in the legislature. We have to be pragmatic and look at the practicality of it.

There will always be people who move here, find nirvana and then want no more. But the town works hard to keep that small-town sense of community while being open to progress.

This is the upper end of my expectations. I was thinking about $17-18 million and hoping for $20 million. This is what we were hoping for when we put it where we did.

It's acting like it got a best-picture nomination. Maybe that's a sign it should have.

It's a great start and we're very pleased.

Considering 'Matrix' coming into the market, I'm very pleased with that hold. It's a very similar audience, so that's pretty terrific.

The bottles had a tripping device on them where the shelves would just literally topple over, and all of the wine and liquors would dump down into the sewer.

In the case of the wine cellar, it is so private and quiet, and it's away from the maddening crowd. There is nobody walking by. The atmosphere is tremendous. It is a very rare place to have a working wine cellar to have your dinner in.

I guess kids would rather watch that competition on TV. Because they didn't come to the theater to watch it.

Clearly (the legislature) has not been able to support any tax on cigarettes, not to mention a 93-cent tax. And we have to be able to take what we can get. We can't continue to be locked into the rigidity of 93 cents.

I certainly think $125 million is the least we should do. It's tough to say. It can go to $150 million. It can go anywhere. We should get some of it back. I guess kids will be out of school for a few days. You only have so much heat for so much time. That's why it's bothersome because it is opening weekend.

I don't see us beating last year. We don't have a Star Wars or Harry Potter , and that's $700 million right there. That's a big chunk to make up.