Quotes by Lynda Obst - Page 1

Self-love knows no impediment.
Lynda Obst / Film Producer
Impediments
Knows
Self
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Everything can be undone, including success.
Lynda Obst / Film Producer
Success
Including
Undone
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There is a fine line between perseverance and madness.
Lynda Obst / Film Producer
Lines
Madness
Perseverance
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[On filmmaking:] Cardinal rule: It's a youth business.
Lynda Obst / Film Producer
Movie
Cardinals
Hollywood
Youth
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Like the color black, business mixed with anything turns to business.
Lynda Obst / Film Producer
Business
Black
Color
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What turns a work crisis into a life crisis is the infusion of dread.
Lynda Obst / Film Producer
Work
Crisis
Infusion
Trouble
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Breakthroughs, in art, in culture, in personality, come when tackling the unexpected.
Lynda Obst / Film Producer
Art
Change
Personality
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It is just as important to move on in the wake of stunning success as in the wake of disaster.
Lynda Obst / Film Producer
Success
Important
Moving
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No single movie or event makes or breaks your career. Everything can be undone, including success.
Lynda Obst / Film Producer
Careers
Events
Make Or Break
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Information is currency. ... Power is a place as well as a verb; it is inside the information tent.
Lynda Obst / Film Producer
Power
Information
Tents
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Ego problems are endemic in every walk of life, but in the movie business egomaniacs are megalomaniacs.
Lynda Obst / Film Producer
Movie
Ego Problem
Egomaniacs
Hollywood
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Always remember the famous adage about the movie business: You can't make a living, you can only get rich.
Lynda Obst / Film Producer
Hollywood
Remember
Rich
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In most fields of endeavor there are no easy jobs; there are only graceful ways of performing difficult ones.
Lynda Obst / Film Producer
Jobs
Work
Fields
Way
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with all these tentpoles, franchises, reboots and sequels, is there still room for movies in the movie business?
Lynda Obst / Film Producer
Movie
Rooms
Sequels
Stills
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Every single one of us who has been a Woman in Film for more than five minutes is sick of the phrase Women in Film.
Lynda Obst / Film Producer
Film
Phrases
Sick
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Every single one of us who has been a 'Woman in Film' for more than five minutes is sick of the phrase 'Women in Film.'
Lynda Obst / Film Producer
Sick
Women Woman More
Phrase
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The lack of women directors is a sad fact of life. Kathryn Bigelows thrilling Best Director win may help turn things around.
Lynda Obst / Film Producer
Directors
May
Winning
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The lack of women directors is a sad fact of life. Kathryn Bigelow's thrilling Best Director win may help turn things around.
Lynda Obst / Film Producer
Thrilling
Sad Fact
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The only way I can access all my strength is to relax. ... The paradox is that you must learn to be relaxed while using all your power.
Lynda Obst / Film Producer
Paradox
Relax
Way
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I think there are always actor parts, and then there are movie-star parts, and an actors always an actor until he does a movie-star part.
Lynda Obst / Film Producer
Doe
Stars
Thinking
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When I was starting out, the first women studio heads and writers were just getting into their perches - development execs learning their chops.
Lynda Obst / Film Producer
Development
Firsts
Starting Out
Chops
Writers
Heads
Studio
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Directing is the last frontier for women in the movie business. We are studio heads, we are producers and we are writers, but we are not directors in any numbers.
Lynda Obst / Film Producer
Directors
Lasts
Movie Business
Numbers
Directing
Frontier
Heads
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nerve, not talent, is the one necessary and sufficient trait for success. (Wouldn't it be ideal if it were talent? But talent with no nerve is like the sound of one hand clapping.
Lynda Obst / Film Producer
Courage
Smile
Hands
Nerves
Sound
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Love and friendship, two of life's abiding rewards, are endangered species in Hollywood. People crave both, mistaking alliance for friendship, lust for love, and ambition for both.
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Ambition
People
Two
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My goal has been to learn how to get movies made without losing sight of the reasons I began. I have had to learn to recognize the insidious nature of the beast without becoming one.
Lynda Obst / Film Producer
Movie
Becoming One
Goal
Sight
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My sense of Los Angeles was very New York provincial, as in 'all those people are crazy out there' (which they are), and stupid (which they're not), and immoral (it's more interesting than that).
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Movie
New York
Crazy
Stupid
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Like the tectonic plate it sits upon, Hollywood is subject to seismic jolts and constant tremors. Each season erupts with a new champion, and every so often a genuine earthquake will tear down the apparently secure infrastructure.
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Champion
Earthquakes
Tears
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The key to moving a maybe to a yes is to make the buyer feel as though other buyers have already said yes. ... It helps if it's true, but it never is. No one wants to be the first yes. Why is this? I don't know, but I think it's anthropological.
Lynda Obst / Film Producer
Keys
Moving
Thinking
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One of our jobs is to keep women working, which we do by keeping women coming to the movies. And doing that means making good, smart, often funny movies that women can identify with-with terrific dialogue we all remember and cherish, and stories that illuminate our lives and decisions and turning points.
Lynda Obst / Film Producer
Jobs
Mean
Smart
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The first thing you notice about women in Hollywood, besides their low percentage of body fat, is how few are married. And the number of great-looking, successful single women without a social life is staggering. ... The most glaring misconception about Hollywood is that it is the romance capital of the world.
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Numbers
Romance
Successful
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True power is invisible and impeccable, like good taste. It is never clumsy or artless. Powerful people whisper, suggest, seduce, in order to coerce. They only use volume for effect. This is how you can tell a blowhard from a mogul. ... Most powerful people don't need to coerce; their mere presence is coercive.
Lynda Obst / Film Producer
Order
Powerful
True Power
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To whom one reports is a unit of measure. It measures the exact distance between the player and the center of power. It is the closest we can get to a calibrated answer to the question 'How big am I?' More than the size of an executive's office or even his title, which no one remembers anyway, the fewer people between the player and a 'yes,' the more powerful he is.
Lynda Obst / Film Producer
Distance
Player
Powerful
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