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My life is organized chaos.
Audiences still crave storytelling.
It's a real privilege to make movies.
I'm not great at talking about myself.
Nobody understands what a producer does.
Success is always a matter of some luck and timing.
You know, I've always been very open to any project.
I don't analyze things all the time, I just do them.
From a producing standpoint, I think prep is everything.
Sometimes women don't take the initiative that they should.
Many great stories are father issues, mother issues or death.
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.
I think 'E.T.' came along at a time when it was probably meant to be.
People want to make a distinction between what's commercial and what's art.
A lot of these big movies are just a collection or a montage of big set pieces.
My story sort of sounds ridiculous because the first movie I produced was 'E.T.'
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.
I loved David Lean, he had a huge influence on me when I was going to film school.
You can recognise when a film-maker really, really cares about what they're doing.
We don't have any intention of beginning a trend of re-creating actors who are gone.
We are going to hire a woman who's going to direct a 'Star Wars' movie. I have no doubt.
In the creative community, there's no excuse for not making a more equitable environment.
I think it's always wise to be concerned about any of the characters in 'Star Wars,' right?
Inside 'Star Wars' are values that mean something to people. It's aspirational. It's full of hope.
I have a very fun husband. He's managed to hang on to every person he's known since grammar school.
If we do want to bring a woman in to direct a 'Star Wars'... we don't want to talk somebody into it.
The problem with some truth-tellers is that they don't do it in a way that makes people want to listen.
When I joined Lucasfilm, I immediately saw the true passion shared by 'Star Wars' fans around the world.
It's not just about casting female protagonists. It's gotta be across the board throughout the industry.
Daniel Day-Lewis is extraordinary; I think he may be one of the best actors ever that we've worked with.
Not every script that rolls in is ready to shoot. Few are, actually. So you go back and work on the thing.
I suppose I was always attracted to the producing function - trying to put things together and make things happen.
The 'Star Wars' saga is about a series of seemingly chance encounters. They impact the destiny of everyone involved.
I would hate to be in a situation where my entire focus was obsessing around the issue of whether we're going to win best picture.
A successful film begins by choosing a director whose creative vision will define the choices made by everyone involved in the film.
I always feel that the best kind of producing - and frankly, it has to do with what I like to do - is you're the big-picture person.
The 'Star Wars' universe is full of technological and cutting-edge effects, which Base FX will be a wonderful partner to create with.
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.
Creating authentic emotional experiences, whether it's 'Star Wars' or 'Spotlight,' are driven by characters and stories that are engaging.
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 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.
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.
Lucasfilm looks out for 'Star Wars.' What are the values inherent in 'Star Wars' that we want to protect? It's fragile to a certain extent in that it's a single IP.
There's nothing I like more than to have one of our movies run, and then I go to the ladies' room and listen to everybody talk about it. No one has any idea who I am.
The most important thing is to have a point of view and have something to say. That is important if you are filmmaker or artist. That means you have to experience the world.
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 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.
I think most fans of movies that have withstood the test of time don't like for them to be tinkered with. I think that's a pretty general consensus. You like to remember what you started with.