Quotes from Kathleen Kennedy

I don't know how to make movies without getting my hands dirty.

People want to make a distinction between what's commercial and what's art.

Daniel Day-Lewis is extraordinary; I think he may be one of the best actors ever that we've worked with.

You know, I've always been very open to any project.

It's not just about casting female protagonists. It's gotta be across the board throughout the industry.

I loved David Lean, he had a huge influence on me when I was going to film school.

It's not fun to lose.

If all you're doing is playing it safe - trying to make the same movie over and over again - that's when the audiences say, 'Oh, this is just a moneymaking machine.' But if it's genuinely in service to the art form, then the franchise concept is being used in a way that's exciting.

I think it's always wise to be concerned about any of the characters in 'Star Wars,' right?

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.

I've had filmmakers, I even had Bono come and talk to me about having a sequel to 'E.T.' help with an environmental message - I listened. I can certainly understand. I mean, the great thing about Bono is that everything he does is in service to a greater cause.

You can recognise when a film-maker really, really cares about what they're doing.

I have a very fun husband. He's managed to hang on to every person he's known since grammar school.

Success is always a matter of some luck and timing.

If you don't spend the time you need on developing characters and finding stories, complicated stories, the audience gets tired because they think they're seeing the same thing again and again.

I'm just a member of the audience with each project I work on, and I hope to never lose that. It's my touchstone. It's the thing I never want to overanalyze.

Sports teaches you to understand the meaning of a team. You need to be able to work with everybody; you don't have to be their best friend. You can experience the fun of competition and driving toward a common goal without pushing to bond in some major way with each individual on a project.

Probably the biggest contribution that Disney has made to the Lucasfilm franchise management was their international component. That was something Lucasfilm hadn't made significant inroads with.

Sometimes women don't take the initiative that they should.

If it's a huge tentpole movie, for instance with a movie like 'Tintin,' a year and a half, almost two years in advance, we were developing a videogame campaign and massive consumer products campaign.

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.

There's no way a director can communicate with every single person on the set and yet they need to motivate and instill an ambition to want to do their best work.

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.

Nobody understands what a producer does.