[On filmmaking:] Cardinal rule: It's a youth business.

- Lynda Obst

Always remember the famous adage about the movie business: You can't make a living, you can only get rich.

- Lynda Obst

No single movie or event makes or breaks your career. Everything can be undone, including success.

- Lynda Obst

It is just as important to move on in the wake of stunning success as in the wake of disaster.

- Lynda Obst

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

Information is currency. ... Power is a place as well as a verb; it is inside the information tent.

- Lynda Obst

with all these tentpoles, franchises, reboots and sequels, is there still room for movies in the movie business?

- Lynda Obst

Like the color black, business mixed with anything turns to business.

- Lynda Obst

True power is invisible and impeccable, like good taste. It is never clumsy or artless. Powerful people whisper, suggest, seduce, in order to coerce.…

- Lynda Obst