There is a fine line between perseverance and madness.

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

To whom one reports is a unit of measure. It measures the exact distance between the player and the center of power. It is the closest we can get to a calibrated answer to the question 'How big am I?' More than the size of an executive's office or even his title, which no one remembers anyway, the fewer people between the player and a 'yes,' the more powerful he is.

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.

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

True power is invisible and impeccable, like good taste. It is never clumsy or artless. Powerful people whisper, suggest, seduce, in order to coerce. They only use volume for effect. This is how you can tell a blowhard from a mogul. ... Most powerful people don't need to coerce; their mere presence is coercive.

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