After The Silence Of The Lambs And

Nobody Taught Picasso How To Paint - He Learned For Himself. And Nobody Can Teach You To Be A Producer. You Can Learn The Mechanics, But You Can't Learn What's Right About A Script Or A Director Or An Actor. That Comes From Instinct And Intuition. It Comes From Inside You.

Making Movies Is All About Instinct.

The Pope Dies, You Get Another Pope.

The Audience Wants To Be Attracted Not By The Critics, But By A Great Story. You Must Deliver To The Audience Emotion - And When I Say Emotion, I Mean Suspense, Drama, Love.

To Me The Only Real Star Of The Movie Is The Writer. And I Work With Writers Very Closely, From Outline To First Draft And On To The Seventh Draft, Whatever It Takes. Then My Job Is To Support The Director To Make The Best Movie We Can. Some Producers Try To Go Past Them, But My Job Is To Support Them.