Film Award Analyst Prints

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

'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."

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

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

Benedict Cumberbatch

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

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

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

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

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

Herman Mankiewicz

Light Bulb Moment

"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."

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

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

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."

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

"Morning, all!"

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

The Life of Pi

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."

'This should be perfect. The main characters fall in love during a series of explosions.'

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

Time Is Money

"I remember when the death of the hero meant the end of the sequels. Now it marks the beginning of the prequels."

A presenter with a very complex chart to explain a business plan - 'And it's as simple as that!'

"If i were to kiss you then there is a 17% probability that we might get married and that has a 24% likelihood that we'd have children with a 34% change of divorce...I'm not sure I can risk it."

"It turns out that if you give a hundred monkeys a hundred typewriters, eventually they'll turn out the work of Tarantino."

'Why can't you tell me you love me without all the charts and graphs?!'