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.
In my world, the hero always defeats the villain, the boy always gets the girl, and cancer is no more. - Laura Ziskin
In my world, the hero always defeats the villain, the boy always gets the girl, and cancer is no more.
- Laura Ziskin
You know I'm proud that I was able to develop and produce movies that I wanted to make. - Laura Ziskin
You know I'm proud that I was able to develop and produce movies that I wanted to make.
Cancer is everybody's cause. - Laura Ziskin
Cancer is everybody's cause.
For me as a filmmaker, I do the projects I'm really excited about. - Laura Ziskin
For me as a filmmaker, I do the projects I'm really excited about.
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… - Laura Ziskin
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…
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
When I was diagnosed I didn't know how epidemic cancer was. You find out that everybody you know is touched by this disease.
I was diagnosed with breast cancer in 2004. - Laura Ziskin
I was diagnosed with breast cancer in 2004.
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 de… - Laura Ziskin
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 de…
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
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?"
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