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

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.

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

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