with all these tentpoles, franchises, reboots and sequels, is there still room for movies in the movie business?

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

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

Directing is the last frontier for women in the movie business. We are studio heads, we are producers and we are writers, but we are not directors in any numbers.

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

Everything can be undone, including success.

Love and friendship, two of life's abiding rewards, are endangered species in Hollywood. People crave both, mistaking alliance for friendship, lust for love, and ambition for both.