Most movies don't have the ability to find an audience. So the movie plays out very quickly in … - Laura Ziskin

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The familiar photographs that many people carry with them always obviously belong to the order of fetishes in the ordinary sense of the word.

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 demands that we make things that are hits before they open. So they have to have the elements, they have to be franchises.

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Movies are arguably the most influential, important medium in the world. They have a tremendous cultural impact. Because women are now making movies, then women's ideas, philosophy, point of view will seep into that culture. And that's never happened in history. Ever, ever, ever. We can't even see the impact of that yet.

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In my world, the hero always defeats the villain, the boy always gets the girl, and cancer is no more.

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When I was diagnosed I didn't know how epidemic cancer was. You find out that everybody you know is touched by this disease.

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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 at the end you have this thing. It's really a collaborative experience.

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For me as a filmmaker, I do the projects I'm really excited about.

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