Quotes from Kathleen Kennedy

From a producing standpoint, I think prep is everything.

I started out as a camera operator. I was doing news, and I was doing sports - baseball games and football games. And I was acutely aware of women not really being in those roles then.

Everybody always asks us how we choose the movies we have going right now, and it's hard to explain sometimes. There's a randomness to the way things kind of happen and get done. And sometimes you have this perfect storm, and you have to accept that and do the best you can.

Audiences still crave storytelling.

My life is organized chaos.

The producer, in effect, has to work as a translator. You form a very tight relationship with the director and writer from the beginning, and then you are constantly communicating to the various people that begin to come into the process, as you are trying to manage to hold on to a vision that needs to be communicated over a long period of time.

I don't analyze things all the time, I just do them.

We have an amazing team at ILM who can create fantastic effects.

I know myself pretty well, and I know what I'm good at, but I also recognize when others may be better and so support and empower that.