“It does feel that there is going to be a sea change in the business, that there isn't going to be a hit every week of the summer. It's a concern, and the bar for the movies that are going to do well seems to have been raised this summer. I don't think anyone wants to live in a world where you have to have one of the biggest movie stars, with one of the biggest directors with a giant concept like aliens invading earth, as your criteria for a hit. It's a pretty high place to put the bar.”
“Everything in it I've already seen. There are some (different) things as far as pass plays, but for protection, it's all the same. As long as I can protect myself, I have an opportunity to play the game.”
“I'm just coming in to do whatever Coach wants me to do. I'm here to support my teammates. Playing 13 years in the league, I have a lot of knowledge of the game, and I can't take it with me so I'm here to help ... and be ready to play when my time comes.”
“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.”
“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.”
“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.”
“We got the message loud and clear that moviegoing isn't necessarily going to happen in the summer season every week unless there is something motivating the audience.”
