David Siegel Quotations

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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 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.

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.

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.