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.

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

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.

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.

[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.