The key to moving a maybe to a yes is to make the buyer feel as though other buyers have already said yes. ... It helps if it's true, but it never is. No one wants to be the first yes. Why is this? I don't know, but I think it's anthropological.

The first thing you notice about women in Hollywood, besides their low percentage of body fat, is how few are married. And the number of great-looking, successful single women without a social life is staggering. ... The most glaring misconception about Hollywood is that it is the romance capital of the world.

When I was starting out, the first women studio heads and writers were just getting into their perches - development execs learning their chops.

Information is currency. ... Power is a place as well as a verb; it is inside the information tent.

In most fields of endeavor there are no easy jobs; there are only graceful ways of performing difficult ones.

[On filmmaking:] Cardinal rule: It's a youth business.

I think there are always actor parts, and then there are movie-star parts, and an actors always an actor until he does a movie-star part.