“If there's a giant cabal of important films in October, there will be a bottleneck of major titles difficult to play through. They'll lose steam just as other films are demanding screens. If the fall is a disaster, then everything will play longer.”
“It's a total Cinderella story because it's still gay cowboys. Try that at a pitch meeting. Try predicting to anyone (before the movie's release) that it would sweep all the nominations. One of the reasons the movie's surprising everyone is that they put it in a box, and it doesn't belong there.”
“I played a lot of dances in Texas. I heard people's feet shuffling on the floor and I figured that would make a real nice beat, and we worked it out and it came out great.”