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.

Every single one of us who has been a Woman in Film for more than five minutes is sick of the phrase Women in Film.

What turns a work crisis into a life crisis is the infusion of dread.

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

Always remember the famous adage about the movie business: You can't make a living, you can only get rich.

Breakthroughs, in art, in culture, in personality, come when tackling the unexpected.

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