Film Analyst Gifts

"When did movies start being dumb all year round?"

'What bothers me about these meetings is even though it's work, I have the nagging feeling I ought to leave and get back to work.'

"I was hoping this presentation would be more interesting upside down."

The Businessmen Have to Make Decisions from Many Options

"Bond James, Bond."

In the Guru District

"For the best picture not having won anything thereby being eliminated from this category..."

"You're losing the audience. Switch to the Powerpoint presentation."

"The data looks good, sir, but the vibes are mucho heavioso."

"They grow up so fast."

Benedict Cumberbatch

"How's everybody doing? I'm not boring you, am I?"

"Right about here there was a flattening of the curve. . ."

"I kid you not, blood was oozing from the walls! Unfortunately, it was fake: I had stumbled on the set of a horror movie..."

'I vote we hang the darn thing upside down and go home!'

Light Bulb Moment

"I think I'll be late back for tea. . . about a week."

Herman Mankiewicz

"So, what brings you in today, Mr. Brooks? High anxiety again?"

"The trend in tough economic times is to put off everything that doesn't require immediate action ? as this chart shows."

"Not to be a motion picture - will remain just a book'

"Well, what did you expect? They were both missing vital organs."

"I've seem an awful lot of movies ever since they cut them all down to two minutes."

Men looking at black screen, "I call it film noir"

"Morning, all!"

"Remind me: Is it the New York Critics Award or the Sundance Audience Prize that always lets us down?"

Ernie Studios. Hi, Ernie. What movies are you working on? We have a script about astronauts marooned on a planet filed with talking gorillas who are in hard economic times. I think I'll call it "The Apes of Wrath"! We're casting "Reignman." The central character is a savant monarch. And we're filming a movie about a suburban town populated by women with strange, long hair ... It's called "The Stepford Weaves."

The Life of Pi

News and Magazines. Celebrity gossip. Sports scandals. Political bickering. We're out of the "information age" and well into the "too much information age"!

Lethal Presentation

'What happened to that efficiency report? I had it in my hand not two minutes ago.'

"Now Playing: One of those Jane Austen movies."

'If only every year was an election year.'

"And now here's Cathie with the hypothetical portion of the news."

"Let's talk film or let's not talk film - I'm easy."