In a sometimes unreasonable business, Jack Valenti was a giant voice of reason. He was the greatest ambassador Hollywood has ever known and I will value his wisdom and friendship for all time.

I sleep each night a little better, a little more confidently, because Lyndon Johnson is my president.

The VCR is to the American film producer, as the Boston Strangler is to the woman home alone.

Film-makers must decide what story to tell and how to tell it.

Foreign capital to build new cinemas will help modernize China's aging cinema infrastructure, attract Chinese consumers back into cinemas, and increase demand for U.S. films.

Washington and Hollywood spring from the same DNA.

The public's nerves are raw and edgy. You have to be discreet and understanding about the films you are showing.

If movies are causing moral decay, then crime ought to be going up, but crime is going down.

In a political struggle, never get personal - else the dagger digs too deep.

The only group in America that deserves to scrutinize what we are doing... are parents.

Every parent in America has the total power to control all television programming that is dispatched to their home today.

Curiosity is a terrible thing, he was thinking. How is it possible to stop oneself from needing to know?

As much as I love crisp, clean whites, there's always a time for rich but balanced Chardonnays with oak, especially at Thanksgiving.

But,' I reminded myself, 'it's common knowledge that life isn't worth living, anyhow.

Every woman has a different metabolism and different genetics, so rather than compete with one another, concentrate on yourself and be the best you can be.

I'd be lying if I said it wasn't fun to go to these nights out, like the opening of a film or something, but I dip in and out of it.

The laws that keep us safe, these same laws condemn us to boredom.

We shape ourselves by our imaginative reach.

She was twenty and had come to realize that, though she had a voice, she wasn't a singer; that to endure and embrace the life of a singer demands a whole lot more than a voice.

We must strive to make ourselves really worthy of some employment. We need pay no attention to anything else; the rest is the business of others.

I was really sporty and loved singing. I started off doing musical theater. I left university to go to drama school. So I was a bit of a black sheep.