Michael Eisner let it be known last week that he had no intention of leaving the entertainment business once he steps down as CEO of Disney in October.

It's only in relatively recent years that Hollywood became the playground of multinational corporations which regard movies and TV shows as a minor irritant to their overall activity.

I wasn't hanging around the movie theaters in New York where I grew up, a Manhattan brat.

Study the public behavior of top stars and you can detect a keen attentiveness to brand value.

The major media companies are significantly reducing their financial commitment to the motion picture sector.

Do your homework and stand your ground.

Historically, filmmakers always fall in love with every frame, but now that even neophytes are given final cut, this love affair carries with it serious economic implications.

The biggest danger of Hollywood becoming a purely corporate town resides in the creative process.

Most movie-goers are overdosing on star coverage; it's the ultimate example of too much information.

It really hasn't been demonstrated at any level by any major corporation that it can nurture what is euphemistically called creativity.

A green-light meeting is when the decision is made finally whether or not to make a given picture.

Your opposition is the most powerful tool you can use to rise up.

I try to not be too hard on myself regarding my diet. I've always been a workout-to-eat kind of a girl.

When I'm buying car insurance I ask myself, 'Which company has the most annoying and relentless commercials?'

A voter without a ballot is like a soldier without a bullet.

Poverty entails fear and stress and sometimes depression. It means a thousand petty humiliations and hardships.

The real problems are cultural. The problems of the people who take drugs as a cultural trap - I think there's a real problem there, the crack stuff, the hopelessness of the junkie. The urban angst.

Let go of the old, take hold of the new and believe that 2013 will be your best year yet!

It was the academic community who wired up their universities so it was put together by smart, well-meaning people who thought it was a good idea.

Self-belief? My parents gave it to me.