Quotes by Chris Weitz

“Were not going to win initial box office ratings, but it is the only comedy opening that week.”

“The dead duck scene is our apple pie [for this movie].”

“One thing that youre scared about in casting a child actor is that you dont want to wreck their lives. Most of them end up robbing banks or getting in some kind of trouble. You hope that the kid you cast isnt destroyed by the experience.”

“I think the novel, the story and the characters are quite universal.”

“I jump at the chance.”

“If you going to make a difference you have to bring some tech to the table, and we certainly do.”

“Traditional enterprise search platforms are very expensive and cumbersome to implement [for IT departments.] They also dont satisfy end user requirements, so they have a low adoption rate.”

“We have decades of experience implementing enterprise applications around the world with 5,000 to 8,000 people working on enterprise applications, customizing ERP and CRM. We have strategic Oracle, Siebel, PeopleSoft and other alliances.”

“We are clearly making a strategic investment in the search space. We believe this is going to be a growing need.”

“I joke that were our own worse enemy.”

Presidents make history. Im just a tool of history.

And its good-bye, good-bye, good-bye. Good-bye, my friends, I love you; good-bye, Im sorry I didnt know you better; good-bye, Im sorry youll die soon, too; good-bye, maybe theres hope for you; good-bye, good-bye, good-bye.

An accessible introduction to the nature of political thought. Just what I always wanted.

The Golden Compass became a bad experience because the studio didnt have faith in the strength of the ideas of the novel, which is ironic because its one of the greatest fantasy novels ever written, if not the greatest, and they took the religion out of it and tried to turn it into a popcorn movie.

Its easy in a novel to be completely unambiguous about the relationship between animal and daemon simply by stating it outright whereas you get very few opportunities to do this in an elegant way in a film.