A green-light meeting is when the decision is made finally whether or not to make a given picture.

Historically, filmmakers always fall in love with every frame, but now that even neophytes are given final cut, this love affair carries with it serious economic implications.

We're going to see a very, very commercial kind of picture-making.

Do your homework and stand your ground.

Most movie-goers are overdosing on star coverage; it's the ultimate example of too much information.

The model today is that as much as 70 percent of the financing of the picture would come from overseas. Now we're beginning to run out of suckers, because there are not that many people overseas who are willing to put up more than half the money for a movie.

I wasn't hanging around the movie theaters in New York where I grew up, a Manhattan brat.