Top 13 Quotes & Sayings by Laura Ziskin

Explore popular quotes and sayings by an American producer Laura Ziskin.

Last updated on November 18, 2024.

Laura Ellen Ziskin was an American film producer, known as the executive producer of Pretty Woman (1990) and producer of Spider-Man (2002), Spider-Man 2 (2004), Spider-Man 3 (2007), and The Amazing Spider-Man. She was also the first woman to produce the Academy Awards telecast alone, producing the 74th Academy Awards (2002) and the 79th Academy Awards (2007).

American - Producer | March 3, 1950 - June 12, 2011

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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.

Laura Ziskin

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

Laura Ziskin

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

Laura Ziskin

What's great about making movies is the sort of additive process of bringing people together and having an idea and watching the idea be added to and at the end you have this thing. It's really a collaborative experience.

Laura Ziskin

I had very few skills. If I hadn't been a producer I'd been a failed actor. That would have been really disastrous.

Laura Ziskin

I was diagnosed with breast cancer in 2004.

Laura Ziskin

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?"

Laura Ziskin

Movies are arguably the most influential, important medium in the world. They have a tremendous cultural impact. Because women are now making movies, then women's ideas, philosophy, point of view will seep into that culture. And that's never happened in history. Ever, ever, ever. We can't even see the impact of that yet.

Laura Ziskin

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

Laura Ziskin

I think it's hard for women to be directors, particularly in the feature world because, biologically, your peak career-making years are also your peak baby-making years, and that's just the truth. And those are choices women have to make.

Laura Ziskin

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.

Laura Ziskin

Cancer is everybody's cause.

Laura Ziskin

In my world, the hero always defeats the villain, the boy always gets the girl, and cancer is no more.

Laura Ziskin