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

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.

That's how you get surprises, because what movies are all about is surprises.

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

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

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.

Study the public behavior of top stars and you can detect a keen attentiveness to brand value.