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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.