Kathleen Kennedy Quotes
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I'm not great at talking about myself.
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Many great stories are father issues, mother issues or death.
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We look at Marvel, but we're not trying to emulate that in any way. In fact, we talked often about how distinctive what we're trying to do with 'Star Wars' is from Marvel. They've been extremely successful in exploiting the characters in that universe, and we have a place. We have the galaxy.
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It's an interesting thing when you're casting a film - especially when you're trying to discover someone - you're waiting for someone to step into the room in an audition process and claim the role.
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Nobody understands what a producer does.
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You can recognise when a film-maker really, really cares about what they're doing.
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It's a real privilege to make movies.
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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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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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It's not fun to lose.
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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 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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Audiences still crave storytelling.
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I've always said that I don't want to be in front of the camera.
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I think 'E.T.' came along at a time when it was probably meant to be.
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I don't analyze things all the time, I just do them.
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Sometimes women don't take the initiative that they should.
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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.