David Siegel Quotations

We applaud the understanding reached and trust it will resolve the outstanding issues that were difficult for both parties.

We ... want to resolve the dispute over the dismissed workers; however, that will not include the reinstatement of those who instigated and incited the walkout action and who harassed and intimidated those employees who chose to come to work during this difficult time.

We hope what people are feeling comes from the gesture this little girl makes for her family. It comes from some enlightened position. We hope the ending feels like redemption for the family, coming through Eliza. And we hope people ascribe meaning to it, and bring their own personal experiences to it.

We've seen no information to suggest anything to the contrary.

From the get-go, that's something we wanted to explore - what's in their imaginations, their histories, their relationships with one another, without having to expressly state it,

He was a big senior person on the ski patrol there, and he was the lead avalanche forecaster for the mountain. This is a big loss for Mammoth.

We recognize the impact the sacrifices they are making will have on them and their families, ... In exchange for their participation, we have committed that this will be a labor-friendly Chapter 11 reorganization, in which we will honor new agreements that have been ratified, and provide labor a voice in the company's governance.

We keep hoping. It would be the happiest day of my life to write that check.

Fingerprint examiners routinely testify that they have 100 percent confidence in their results, but that's just not the level of confidence that we really ever have in systems that involve human beings.

Fabric is the hot thing. It's very dynamic and, in a cliched word, very cool.

Those things are super important to us. We think a lot about the way the world is detailed, what the sound feels like, what the music is going to be doing. I hesitate to say it, but we like the classic tradition of melodramatic cinema, of trying to create the music and drama of the world.

I've been watching this family for three months standing on street corners and beating the bushes and doing everything they can to get her back and I feel terrible what they are going through and I wanted to put up this reward.

The movie is the story of four people trying to tap into a reservoir of something greater than themselves, a spiritual well.

There's a lot going on at the end of the movie,

It's unclear in terms of looking for forensic evidence.

I like the idea of Eliza's voice-over at that moment: 'My father taught me I could reach the ear of God,' ... She has achieved a kind of consciousness where she believes making this gesture will have some kind of redemptive value. It's some fundamental human thing like love.

Alexander's experience with Sideways left a lot of people in Hollywood scratching their heads. Nobody besides Fox Searchlight was going to give him the money he wanted, with no stars in the movie - yet it was super-successful. I hope that helped people think a little bit broader.