34 Quotes by Jeff Blake

There were a lot of weekends where there were just no winners. Even in July, our best month of the year, you had two weekends where none of the films really worked. That's a scary thought to us.

There were some weekends when you had the big new film of the weekend, when you thought you were going to be the only kid on the block. And a film that was a week or two old would be No. 1. There was no way to predict whether people were going to come out for the movies or what they were going to choose.

It's a buffer. We do them frequently, and quite frankly I think you're going to see them more often. Sometimes the way (to go) is to share the risk.

It's a lesson learned on judging talent. It's not how big you are, it's not how strong or fast you are, but it's character and will and drive and the size of a person's heart. Those things you can't measure.

It's the biggest one-two producing punch ever. You've got to hand it to Jerry Bruckheimer.

It's not going to be smooth sailing all the time. But sometimes you just have to take the good with the bad, learn from it and just move on.

Everyone feels confident about the movies they've got going in. But I admit, there is little margin for error. Our big movies are going to have to come through if it's going to add up for the studios and the industry this year.

Everybody was saying they're gonna go with what they have. That was the word we were getting. But I wasn't worried about it. If it's my time to go, it's my time to go. I have my kids and would love to see them play.

Summer is when audiences expect us to deliver excitement. Some movies just didn't fulfill that promise.