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

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.

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.

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 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.

We should love, not fall in love, because everything that falls, gets broken.

The lamp of genius burns quicker than the lamp of life.

Reckless action is worse than wise restraint.

And as pale sickness does invade, Your frailer part, the breaches made, In that fair lodging still more clear, Make the bright guest, your soul, appear.

The Commander in Chief directs that Divine service be performed every Sunday at 11 o'clock...It is expected that officers of all ranks will by their attendance set an example to their men.

I think Mum's got a second cousin who's an accountant, but we never talk about him.

I look like the wrath of grapes.

Mommies can't look gross!' J.J. protested.

Progress and growth are impossible if you always do things the way you've always done things.