I had very few skills. If I hadn't been a producer I'd been a failed actor. That would have been really disastrous.

In my world, the hero always defeats the villain, the boy always gets the girl, and cancer is no more.

Most movies don't have the ability to find an audience. So the movie plays out very quickly in a lot of theaters to get the biggest gross. So that demands that we make things that are hits before they open. So they have to have the elements, they have to be franchises.

You know I'm proud that I was able to develop and produce movies that I wanted to make.

Movies are arguably the most influential, important medium in the world. They have a tremendous cultural impact. Because women are now making movies, then women's ideas, philosophy, point of view will seep into that culture. And that's never happened in history. Ever, ever, ever. We can't even see the impact of that yet.

I was diagnosed with breast cancer in 2004.

I had very few skills. If I hadn't been a producer I'd been a failed actor. That would have been really disastrous.