My goal has been to learn how to get movies made without losing sight of the reasons I began. I have had to learn to recognize the insidious nature of the beast without becoming one.

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

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

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.

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.

nerve, not talent, is the one necessary and sufficient trait for success. (Wouldn't it be ideal if it were talent? But talent with no nerve is like the sound of one hand clapping.

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