Laura Ziskin Quotes

Men have built the cities, made and defined the culture, interpreted the world. At no time in recorded history have women been culture-makers. 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.

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

He's just scary smart, sort of smarter than everyone else in the room. There's just a handful of these people who know absolutely everything about the process. They could do everyone's job brilliantly. Every aspect is under their control. (About David Fincher)

I don’t think Laura approached anything in her life, be it producing movies, or battling cancer, or motherhood, or friendship in a traditional way. Like every great hero, she had a vision and she set us into motion and now its up to us to continue moving forward to achieve her dream. (of beating cancer)

There wasn’t a task that seemed impossible to her. Laura had the ability to dream big, she would scale things in her mind quickly, and I think that that’s one of the jobs of a producer, is to have a hope for a future. She set out to beat cancer, and not ‘her cancer’, but ‘Cancer’.