Michael Barker Quotations

We're becoming more and more selective. There is long-term business in foreign-language films, but it's still very tough.

We did our job and the jury did theirs. I suspect the jury never could get past the statement he made to the police.

She has plenty of respect for money when it comes to buying one of her films!

We were struck by how it avoided sentimentality, in the way the great John Huston movies did.

You know, we did our job, and the jury did theirs, and the judge did his. Sometimes this is the outcome.

(Toronto) is one of the best places, if not the best place in North America, to launch films. Journalists from all over are there, and it?s the most responsive audience you can wish for. That can be a liability when making an acquisition call but not a liability when you are launching a film and want to show it in the best possible context.

We felt very confident about (Philip Seymour Hoffman's) performance from the very beginning. And we had always planned to expand on February 3, using the strategy of getting the best picture nomination. I think ultimately we will more than double the gross we have now.

Boy, that 'Cache' is hanging in there. That's really something. Just think, we're going to be over $1 million on just five cities and we have the whole country to go. The film is going to do great.

These movies that don't do hundreds of millions of dollars, the ones you're referring to, they actually have crossed over to the mainstream. They're not, they're just not doing blockbuster movie business. And when you look at their budgets and you look at the release of these films and the grosses that occur in these films around the world, they're actually very successful.

Oscar nominations are really important for a picture of quality, for a film that is not thought of as mainstream. We try to stay true to who we are, I'd like to think it basically says that slow and steady can win the race -- these Academy Award nominations validate that theory.

It's obvious the film has strong staying power in urban and suburban areas.

It's almost a shade of Sam Peckinpah .

It's helpful. The stories say it's wrong because it's one of the year's great movies. So the story is not about the arcane rules of the Academy, but about how good a film 'Cache' is. That gains traction with the audience.

David Derrick did the only thing he felt he could do to protect his children.

It occurred as a result of stress and terror.

It's very much a family affair; Fernanda introduced me to her son-in-law and daughter,

It's very important for a film like 'Capote.' It gives real posterity to a film. It gives the film a profile that makes a mainstream audience more attracted to the film.

It will turn around. These are strong films that happen to be small. But the public still has plenty of time to find them.

In order to combat piracy, the American release date will be a lot closer to the release date in the original territory.

I couldn't have asked for a better father. Many, many people in town that I bump into have told me their first job was in the grocery store, starting as teenagers ,and some worked there all their lives.

For people with mental-health diseases, this film makes them feel positive, hopeful and not alone in the world with this problem.

The longer you keep a film in the theaters, the more value it'll have down the line.