Of course, marketing and publicity does an amazing job of prepping everybody for that, but there's nothing like sitting there and experiencing the movie.

Sometimes when you have limited resources and you really have to think about creative ways to get around some of these problems, generally the end result is better.

It's always hard for the first movie because you have to spend so much time introducing the characters.

Sometimes you have to make bold choices, creatively. I'm always in favor of that.

We, as producers, want to tell the best stories. We want to tell the stories that people will talk about.

You want to tell a great story. You want these characters to become part of people's lives. And then, hopefully, that generates discussion.

It's great to see a relatable, accessible young woman out there, doing things and breaking the barriers for what would be considered an action movie.

People grew up on the animated movie. Bill Condon is Bill Condon. And nobody does those movies better than Disney does.

People are sophisticated viewers, as evidenced by the risks that are taken in cable television, and I think network has to do the same thing.

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I was a prisoner, but I always felt free because I was not frightened So for me real freedom is freedom from fear.

Virginia Woolf's writing is no more than glamorous knitting. I believe she must have a pattern somewhere.

You can do anything you want to do.

I never desired to go into war zones. I never had any thought about it. It sort of just happened as part of the job.

The muscles that writers need for film are very different from TV muscles. Now, when I hire the writers and put the writers' room together, I know where their muscles need to be.

Perchance that I might learn what pity is, That I might laugh at erring men no more.

I was born in the U.S. Why should anyone who has an unfavorable view of the American government renounce his or her citizenship? Why don't its supporters relinquish their citizenship first?

Only within the moment of time represented by the present century has one species -- man -- acquired significant power to alter the nature of the world.