Words matter. These are the best Kathleen Kennedy Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
I don’t usually do remakes.
Nobody understands what a producer does.
We look at Marvel, but we’re not trying to emulate that in any way. In fact, we talked often about how distinctive what we’re trying to do with ‘Star Wars’ is from Marvel. They’ve been extremely successful in exploiting the characters in that universe, and we have a place. We have the galaxy.
Everybody always asks us how we choose the movies we have going right now, and it’s hard to explain sometimes. There’s a randomness to the way things kind of happen and get done. And sometimes you have this perfect storm, and you have to accept that and do the best you can.
If it’s a huge tentpole movie, for instance with a movie like ‘Tintin,’ a year and a half, almost two years in advance, we were developing a videogame campaign and massive consumer products campaign.
I’m just a member of the audience with each project I work on, and I hope to never lose that. It’s my touchstone. It’s the thing I never want to overanalyze.
Success is always a matter of some luck and timing.
I don’t know how to make movies without getting my hands dirty.
I loved David Lean, he had a huge influence on me when I was going to film school.
I have a very fun husband. He’s managed to hang on to every person he’s known since grammar school.
If all you’re doing is playing it safe – trying to make the same movie over and over again – that’s when the audiences say, ‘Oh, this is just a moneymaking machine.’ But if it’s genuinely in service to the art form, then the franchise concept is being used in a way that’s exciting.
I think most fans of movies that have withstood the test of time don’t like for them to be tinkered with. I think that’s a pretty general consensus. You like to remember what you started with.
A lot of these big movies are just a collection or a montage of big set pieces.
It’s a real privilege to make movies.
I’ve always said that I don’t want to be in front of the camera.
A lot of directors will do a certain amount of storyboarding and pre-vis, and yet when they get on the set, everything starts to change, and they have new ideas.
When we built Amblin, we even put Murphy beds in there because we thought that was so practical. Why would anybody, if you were working on something, need to go home at night? You’d just stay there, wake up in the morning, and carry on.
We don’t have any intention of beginning a trend of re-creating actors who are gone.
The problem with some truth-tellers is that they don’t do it in a way that makes people want to listen.
It’s an interesting thing when you’re casting a film – especially when you’re trying to discover someone – you’re waiting for someone to step into the room in an audition process and claim the role.
Daniel Day-Lewis is extraordinary; I think he may be one of the best actors ever that we’ve worked with.
Sometimes women don’t take the initiative that they should.
I think ‘E.T.’ came along at a time when it was probably meant to be.
The ‘Star Wars’ saga is about a series of seemingly chance encounters. They impact the destiny of everyone involved.
People want to make a distinction between what’s commercial and what’s art.
Many great stories are father issues, mother issues or death.
Lucasfilm looks out for ‘Star Wars.’ What are the values inherent in ‘Star Wars’ that we want to protect? It’s fragile to a certain extent in that it’s a single IP.
I find that a lot of directors are attracted to the dark side.
My story sort of sounds ridiculous because the first movie I produced was ‘E.T.’
If you don’t spend the time you need on developing characters and finding stories, complicated stories, the audience gets tired because they think they’re seeing the same thing again and again.
Inside ‘Star Wars’ are values that mean something to people. It’s aspirational. It’s full of hope.
There’s no way a director can communicate with every single person on the set and yet they need to motivate and instill an ambition to want to do their best work.
From a producing standpoint, I think prep is everything.
A successful film begins by choosing a director whose creative vision will define the choices made by everyone involved in the film.
When I joined Lucasfilm, I immediately saw the true passion shared by ‘Star Wars’ fans around the world.
