Occupation: Television Producer Birth: September 21, 1943
You have to start at the very bottom and you've got to do every job. I did that so I could understand what everybody does. I didn't become this huge ….
Definitely, it's a fear of failure that drives me..
Anybody who's really successful has doubts..
If you have a crisis, whether on a ship or wherever, there are heroes who rise above it..
People want to leave their homes but they can't go on vacation as much as they used to. So, getting out of the house and seeing a good movie helps th….
I think it's the source material. 27 Dresses was a famous book, and Devil Wears Prada was also a wonderful book, so it's coming out of the novelists ….
Because you can't do anything halfway, you've got to go all the way in anything you do..
We want to create these dramatic situations, whether they are real or not, to entertain audiences..
I was always looking to be entertained. We lead such full lives and a lot of us don't lead very pleasant lives and don't like what we do... My dad wo….
Well, I don't look back and celebrate. I just always worry about the next one..
We love to entertain audiences and this picture does that - it's romantic, it's funny, it's got a nice message and I think it's a gift to the audienc….
And usually the studios they don't want you to have credit for your movies because they want to take credit for the movies because if you get credit ….
Every time I make a movie I think that it's going to be my last one, I think that no one is going to show up. I always have this sense that they're a….
It's very difficult to release an X-rated movie..
I think you've got to be honest with yourself at what you're good at. That's the hardest thing to do..
It's important to stand up for your work - otherwise somebody else will step in and say they did it..
Sometimes we'll only get one script in a year that we want to make that we feel is good enough..
Every day you make mistakes. And the key to making mistakes is first you have to make them, which means you're in the game. So don't be afraid of get….
You've got to learn from your mistakes. And not do them again..
Screenplays are the hardest thing to try to get right. They look so simple when they work, but they really destroy your brain cells trying to get the….
You put faith in people sometimes that can't deliver for you. And those are mistakes and you have to... don't work with them again. It's pretty easy..