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

One of our jobs is to keep women working, which we do by keeping women coming to the movies. And doing that means making good, smart, often funny movies that women can identify with-with terrific dialogue we all remember and cherish, and stories that illuminate our lives and decisions and turning points.

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.

No single movie or event makes or breaks your career. Everything can be undone, including success.

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.

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.