KATHLEEN KENNEDY

People want to make a distinction between what's commercial and what's art.

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.

I don't analyze things all the time, I just do them.

I'm not great at talking about myself.

When you're relegated to go from movie to movie, so much of what you're doing is out of your control beyond creating the product.

You know, I've always been very open to any project.

Many great stories are father issues, mother issues or death.

Sports teaches you to understand the meaning of a team. You need to be able to work with everybody; you don't have to be their best friend. You can experience the fun of competition and driving toward a common goal without pushing to bond in some major way with each individual on a project.

It's a real privilege to make movies.

Daniel Day-Lewis is extraordinary; I think he may be one of the best actors ever that we've worked with.

From a producing standpoint, I think prep is everything.

Audiences still crave storytelling.

There's nothing I like more than to have one of our movies run, and then I go to the ladies' room and listen to everybody talk about it. No one has any idea who I am.

We are going to hire a woman who's going to direct a 'Star Wars' movie. I have no doubt.

You can recognise when a film-maker really, really cares about what they're doing.

I think 'E.T.' came along at a time when it was probably meant to be.

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.

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.

The 'Star Wars' universe is full of technological and cutting-edge effects, which Base FX will be a wonderful partner to create with.

I had a teacher who loved movies. He had a little theatre called The Flick, and he would let a bunch of us volunteer to work there, and he also let us make little movies in class.

I suppose I was always attracted to the producing function - trying to put things together and make things happen.

I loved David Lean, he had a huge influence on me when I was going to film school.

Having a female point of view in the room - when you get into a discussion about behavior - who would say what and how they would interact with one another. In certain situations, women are going to have a different opinion on that than men. It made for a really balanced conversation in the room.

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 started out as a camera operator. I was doing news, and I was doing sports - baseball games and football games. And I was acutely aware of women not really being in those roles then.