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.

Ego problems are endemic in every walk of life, but in the movie business egomaniacs are megalomaniacs.

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.

Self-love knows no impediment.

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.

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

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