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I'm not great at talking about myself.
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It's a real privilege to make movies.
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Not every script that rolls in is ready to shoot. Few are, actually. So you go back and work on the thing.
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It's funny where life can take you.
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Probably the biggest contribution that Disney has made to the Lucasfilm franchise management was their international component. That was something Lucasfilm hadn't made significant inroads with.
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I have a very fun husband. He's managed to hang on to every person he's known since grammar school.
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Audiences still crave storytelling.
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Having a female point of view in the room - when you get into a discussion about behavior - who would say what and how they would interact with one another. In certain situations, women are going to have a different opinion on that than men. It made for a really balanced conversation in the room.
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A lot of these big movies are just a collection or a montage of big set pieces.
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Many great stories are father issues, mother issues or death.
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I had a teacher who loved movies. He had a little theatre called The Flick, and he would let a bunch of us volunteer to work there, and he also let us make little movies in class.
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A lot of directors will do a certain amount of storyboarding and pre-vis, and yet when they get on the set, everything starts to change, and they have new ideas.
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I've always said that I don't want to be in front of the camera.
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It's not fun to lose.
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I think 'E.T.' came along at a time when it was probably meant to be.
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Sometimes women don't take the initiative that they should.
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I don't analyze things all the time, I just do them.
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If we do want to bring a woman in to direct a 'Star Wars'... we don't want to talk somebody into it.
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There's nothing I like more than to have one of our movies run, and then I go to the ladies' room and listen to everybody talk about it. No one has any idea who I am.