Miramax Quotes & Sayings

I really would have been stupid not to have done it. It was also a film that was actually happening, I mean, Miramax was doing it, and it had a kind of legitimacy to it. And once I read the script, I was there. — Adam Arkin

Our moral responsibility is not to stop future, but to shape it ... to channel our destiny in humane directions and to ease the trauma of transition. — Alvin Toffler

The vision, determination, stamina, hope, relentlessness, and sheer work that are involved in staying afloat, much less succeeding, are the same whether you are running a window on 47th Street or Miramax Films or Microsoft. — Bob Weinstein

Miramax can buy a small independent movie that isn't very good, but because it has great relationships with different theaters, it can get into a big theater. — Marguerite Moreau

Until we learn to love everyone in this universe, how can there be peace? — Debasish Mridha

I interned at Miramax and subsequently at Paramount because I was really curious about the future of entertainment - how were we going to get films online? While the inspiration for Box didn't come from that experience directly, it was very obvious that bigger businesses had a lot of slow processes and cumbersome technology. — Aaron Levie

Once Miramax gets involved, if they like your movie, there's a big machine that gets involved. — Tom Wilkinson

Mirages distract us until we die of thirst. — Marty Rubin

I remember exiting the birth canal and suddenly I was in a film. But you are never really in charge of that. The movie came out about five or six months ago in America. It was Miramax in the States and Disney here [fakes falling asleep]. What happened. I love working for Disney, not Walt specifically because he couldn't be more dead, but the company is fantastic — Ryan Reynolds

We didn't care if we were well-liked as long as the movies were good. We served the movie - that was our master at Miramax. In our second incarnation, the movie is still the master but we're getting the same results in more subtle ways. — Harvey Weinstein

With 'Good Will Hunting,' Miramax made certain the recruited audience wasn't expecting to laugh at Robin Williams like they normally do. From my limited experience, you can really blow test screenings by conducting them in the wrong way. — Gus Van Sant

It was never my intention to marry anybody. Economics are basically the only reason to get married, but I'm very glad I did it. — Helen Mirren

I will not undertake to offer an opinion on the capacity of Hindustan to produce cotton. The region is large, and the soil and climate various, the population great and wages low; but I must be permitted to doubt the success of the experiment of driving us out of the market, though backed and patronized by English capital and energy. — John C. Calhoun

Get Miramax to send me down to Australia. I'd like to see it. — Walter Hill

Sometimes Harvey Weinstein will let me use the Miramax jet if I'm opening a supermarket for him. — Gwyneth Paltrow

The deception at the heart of the feminist movement is nowhere more apparent than in the silence with which self-professed feminists and feminist movements ignore the inhumane treatment of women who live under Islamic law. — Caroline Glick

I'm not seeking out genre films, but this just came my way, and Miramax was good enough to add a role for me because we wanted the chance to work together. — Jeri Ryan

Contrary to what we conclude naturally, the gospel is not too good to be true. It is true! It's the truest truth in the entire universe. No strings attached! No fine print to read. No buts. No conditions. No qualifications. No footnotes. And especially, no need for balance. — Tullian Tchividjian

The thing that's great about those guys at Miramax is the Weinstein brothers. They are the two funniest guys I've ever met in my life. — Ted Demme

Never in the history of chess have so many moves been repeated so often so quickly by so many people who didn't really understand them. — Michael Stean

Miramax didn't introduce the actors at any of the screenings. That's why a lot of people thought 'Kids' was a documentary. I still meet people who think it was real. — Leo Fitzpatrick

Independent films in this country are in the same position. Miramax and Fine Line are not independent - they're with Disney! Come on. Or they're with Warner Brothers. They're all with somebody. — Dennis Hopper

People without hope are a dangerous crowd, even in a republic. — Joe Abercrombie

These days all you need is the ability to watch television and hold a potato at the same time to call yourself a designer. — Glenn Martinez

Vampires were an excellent springboard. I still love them; they fascinate me. — Amelia Atwater-Rhodes

I think for us - the Weinstein name, the Miramax name - they've both become synonymous with brands. We have a real winning formula when it comes to championing a different kind of movie, and I think the audience trusts us. — Harvey Weinstein

I'm at Miramax now, where I've actually been treated like a Prince. — Ted Demme

Has it ever struck you that trout bite best on the Sabbath? God's critters tempting decent men. — James M. Barrie

I enjoy meat, but I can do without it. — Yotam Ottolenghi