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[On filmmaking:] Cardinal rule: It’s a youth business.

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Always remember the famous adage about the movie business: You can’t make a living, you can only get rich.

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Breakthroughs, in art, in culture, in personality, come when tackling the unexpected.

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Directing is the last frontier for women in the movie business. We are studio heads, we are producers and we are writers, but we are not directors in any numbers.

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Ego problems are endemic in every walk of life, but in the movie business egomaniacs are megalomaniacs.

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Every single one of us who has been a Woman in Film for more than five minutes is sick of the phrase Women in Film.

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Everything can be undone, including success.

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I think there are always actor parts, and then there are movie-star parts, and an actors always an actor until he does a movie-star part.

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In most fields of endeavor there are no easy jobs; there are only graceful ways of performing difficult ones.

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Information is currency. … Power is a place as well as a verb; it is inside the information tent.

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Quotes by Lynda Obst

Lynda Obst

[On filmmaking:] Cardinal rule: It’s a youth business.

Always remember the famous adage about the movie business: You can’t make a living, you can only get rich.

Breakthroughs, in art, in culture, in personality, come when tackling the unexpected.

Directing is the last frontier for women in the movie business. We are studio heads, we are producers and we are writers, but we are not directors in any numbers.

Ego problems are endemic in every walk of life, but in the movie business egomaniacs are megalomaniacs.

Every single one of us who has been a Woman in Film for more than five minutes is sick of the phrase Women in Film.

Everything can be undone, including success.

I think there are always actor parts, and then there are movie-star parts, and an actors always an actor until he does a movie-star part.

In most fields of endeavor there are no easy jobs; there are only graceful ways of performing difficult ones.

Information is currency. … Power is a place as well as a verb; it is inside the information tent.

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