24 Quotes by 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.

You know I’m proud that I was able to develop and produce movies that I wanted to make.

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?”

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

In some ways, the most rewarding thing I’ve done were the two times that I did the Oscars, particularly the first time because it was really like the ultimate “Let’s put on a show,” with every great movie star in the world available.

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