Quotes by John Fithian

“Im not sure who was asleep, but it wasnt the exhibition industry. Heres what we know about 2005: The movies arent as good.”

“We regret this tragic incident, but we have to remind our patrons that violence at theaters is extremely rare. Weve had 1.5 billion people come to the theaters in each of the past three years, and there were only a handful of violent incidents. Though very unfortunate, this type of incident is very rare at the cinema. At this time we dont know if there is any association of this particular incident in connection with the film that was playing. Well let the police do their investigation.”

“Its stunning to me, the barrage of articles about the impending death of the movie theater.”

“The long-term trend is positive.”

“This is something that drives us nuts. When Wal-Mart starts putting up signs a month and a half or two months into the movies run, that just kind of tells the consumer: Wait -- its coming.”

“I like to describe it as business decisions that made a lot of sense individually added up to make some not-so-good sense collectively.”

“Its the movies, stupid. Thats what weve been saying all along.”

“They go to the movies to escape their houses, ... and they like to escape their healthy diets too.”

“This is something that drives us nuts,”

“We strongly encourage (theater owners) to keep the ads limited in duration and make them entertaining in their own right. We hope there will be a migration toward fewer ads that dont replicate whats on television, because people cant stand that.”