22 Quotes by Michael Barker

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.