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Cancer is everybody's cause.
Laura Ziskin / Film Producer
Cancer
Causes
Survival
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I was diagnosed with breast cancer in 2004.
Laura Ziskin / Film Producer
Breast Cancer
Breasts
Cancer
Diagnosed
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For me as a filmmaker, I do the projects I'm really excited about.
Laura Ziskin / Film Producer
Excited
Filmmaker
Projects
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You know I'm proud that I was able to develop and produce movies that I wanted to make.
Laura Ziskin / Film Producer
Able
Produce
Proud
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In my world, the hero always defeats the villain, the boy always gets the girl, and cancer is no more.
Laura Ziskin / Film Producer
Girl
Cancer
Hero
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I had very few skills. If I hadn't been a producer I'd been a failed actor. That would have been really disastrous.
Laura Ziskin / Film Producer
Actors
Producers
Skills
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When I was diagnosed I didn't know how epidemic cancer was. You find out that everybody you know is touched by this disease.
Laura Ziskin / Film Producer
Cancer
Disease
Epidemics
Touched
Diagnosed
Epidemic
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I think being a producer makes you a problem solver, so you kind of go, "Well there's a problem. What do we do? How do we solve it?"
Laura Ziskin / Film Producer
Kind
Problem
Thinking
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What's great about making movies is the sort of additive process of bringing people together and having an idea and watching the idea be added to and at the end you have this thing.
Laura Ziskin / Film Producer
Added
Bringing
Making Movies
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I describe myself as someone who was always putting on a show, even when I was a little girl. I wanted to be an actress but I liked organizing everybody and putting on plays. I was a producer.
Laura Ziskin / Film Producer
Describe
Organizing
Little Girl
Producer
Plays
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What's great about making movies is the sort of additive process of bringing people together and having an idea and watching the idea be added to and at the end you have this thing. It's really a collaborative experience.
Laura Ziskin / Film Producer
Ideas
People
Together
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In some ways, the most rewarding thing I've done were the two times that I did the Oscars, particularly the first time because it was really like the ultimate "Let's put on a show," with every great movie star in the world available.
Laura Ziskin / Film Producer
Stars
Two
Way
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I think it's hard for women to be directors, particularly in the feature world because, biologically, your peak career-making years are also your peak baby-making years, and that's just the truth. And those are choices women have to make.
Laura Ziskin / Film Producer
Baby
Thinking
Years
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Most movies don't have the ability to find an audience. So the movie plays out very quickly in a lot of theaters to get the biggest gross. So that demands that we make things that are hits before they open. So they have to have the elements, they have to be franchises.
Laura Ziskin / Film Producer
Demand
Elements
Play
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Movies are arguably the most influential, important medium in the world. They have a tremendous cultural impact. Because women are now making movies, then women's ideas, philosophy, point of view will seep into that culture. And that's never happened in history. Ever, ever, ever. We can't even see the impact of that yet.
Laura Ziskin / Film Producer
Impact
Philosophy
Views
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