Zitat des Tages von Kathleen Kennedy:
There's no way a director can communicate with every single person on the set and yet they need to motivate and instill an ambition to want to do their best work.
A successful film begins by choosing a director whose creative vision will define the choices made by everyone involved in the film.
Sports teaches you to understand the meaning of a team. You need to be able to work with everybody; you don't have to be their best friend. You can experience the fun of competition and driving toward a common goal without pushing to bond in some major way with each individual on a project.
I don't analyze things all the time, I just do them.
When you're relegated to go from movie to movie, so much of what you're doing is out of your control beyond creating the product.
Having a female point of view in the room - when you get into a discussion about behavior - who would say what and how they would interact with one another. In certain situations, women are going to have a different opinion on that than men. It made for a really balanced conversation in the room.
It's an interesting thing when you're casting a film - especially when you're trying to discover someone - you're waiting for someone to step into the room in an audition process and claim the role.
A lot of directors will do a certain amount of storyboarding and pre-vis, and yet when they get on the set, everything starts to change, and they have new ideas.
Sometimes women don't take the initiative that they should.
Success is always a matter of some luck and timing.
When we built Amblin, we even put Murphy beds in there because we thought that was so practical. Why would anybody, if you were working on something, need to go home at night? You'd just stay there, wake up in the morning, and carry on.
If you don't spend the time you need on developing characters and finding stories, complicated stories, the audience gets tired because they think they're seeing the same thing again and again.
My life is organized chaos.
I'm not great at talking about myself.
I think 'E.T.' came along at a time when it was probably meant to be.
You know, I've always been very open to any project.
Inside 'Star Wars' are values that mean something to people. It's aspirational. It's full of hope.
I had a teacher who loved movies. He had a little theatre called The Flick, and he would let a bunch of us volunteer to work there, and he also let us make little movies in class.
I suppose I was always attracted to the producing function - trying to put things together and make things happen.
I know myself pretty well, and I know what I'm good at, but I also recognize when others may be better and so support and empower that.
I loved David Lean, he had a huge influence on me when I was going to film school.
When Princess Leia hit the scene in 1977, she was a pretty formidable character.
We knew that for E.T. to feel real, you had to have some connection to his eyes.
It's not fun to lose.
I don't usually do remakes.
Nobody understands what a producer does.
My story sort of sounds ridiculous because the first movie I produced was 'E.T.'
I have a very fun husband. He's managed to hang on to every person he's known since grammar school.
Creating authentic emotional experiences, whether it's 'Star Wars' or 'Spotlight,' are driven by characters and stories that are engaging.