“What's especially important is that it comes on a non-summer, non-holiday, non-weekend day. It's a plain-old Wednesday in mid-May -- that's not bad business.”
“This summer is off to a fabulous start. People thought it was going to be dominated exclusively by 'Star Wars.' It turns out there are a number of hits in the marketplace. The marketplace expanded, Star Wars is doing great, but there are a lot of other hits that are playing in theaters now.”
“On TV, where you have the miniseries form which allows a long time to develop and deal with a story that's complicated, perhaps the material is better served by that form.”
“I think in troubled times, we're going to see the same genre that worked during the depression -- comedy. People need to escape, they need to laugh, they need to forget the grim realities of the world. Comedies are going to become king at the box office.”