Anne Thompson Quotations

That was the impetus behind writing it, was to have the collection be more accessible to more people,

Another benefit of this book would be if people give us their photograph collections, if they realize we are a repository. They don't have to give them to us in their lifetime. They can will them to us.

Saving Private Ryan' is the film that will dominate the Oscars this year. It's a way, way out there front-runner.

This is a question of the critics being useful to the studios. When it's youth movies, studios really don't want their weaknesses highlighted and would rather the critics ignore them. That's going to continue.

There's a sense that Universal may have let down the side initially, with the way they marketed the film and the release date. If you just look at the gross, it's a perfectly respectable gross for that kind of dramatic movie. But given how expensive the film was, it was considered a box office disappointment.

It was the kind of summer where everything went out big, dropped and went away. You didn't have a lot of sleepers with big legs --as they say long legs -- in the business.

It (the Oscar buzz) is so spare that people are going back to movies earlier in the year. They're saying that 'Gladiator' and 'Erin Brockovich' are looking like very strong players in the Oscar race.