It's not just about casting female protagonists. It's gotta be across the board throughout the industry.
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'm just a member of the audience with each project I work on, and I hope to never lose that. It's my touchstone. It's the thing I never want to overanalyze.
A successful film begins by choosing a director whose creative vision will define the choices made by everyone involved in the film.
The producer, in effect, has to work as a translator. You form a very tight relationship with the director and writer from the beginning, and then you are constantly communicating to the various people that begin to come into the process, as you are trying to manage to hold on to a vision that needs to be communicated over a long period of time.
Inside 'Star Wars' are values that mean something to people. It's aspirational. It's full of hope.
I loved David Lean, he had a huge influence on me when I was going to film school.
It's funny where life can take you.
I don't know how to make movies without getting my hands dirty.
I find that a lot of directors are attracted to the dark side.
We have an amazing team at ILM who can create fantastic effects.
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.
It's a real privilege to make movies.
I started out as a camera operator. I was doing news, and I was doing sports - baseball games and football games. And I was acutely aware of women not really being in those roles then.
Sometimes women don't take the initiative that they should.
I've always said that I don't want to be in front of the camera.
We knew that for E.T. to feel real, you had to have some connection to his eyes.