38 Kathleen Kennedy Quotes for You to Enjoy

Kathleen Kennedy

American Producer

Born: Jun 5, 1953

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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. Kathleen Kennedy

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Success is always a matter of some luck and timing. Kathleen Kennedy

Success Matter Timing Luck Some Always Success Is

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

You Project Open Know Always Been Very Any

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. Kathleen Kennedy

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

Art People Distinction Between Make Commercial Want

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. Kathleen Kennedy

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A lot of these big movies are just a collection or a montage of big set pieces. Kathleen Kennedy

Big Collection Pieces Lot Just Movies Set

From a producing standpoint, I think prep is everything. Kathleen Kennedy

Think Everything Producing Standpoint Prep

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. Kathleen Kennedy

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

Woman Doubt No Doubt Direct Hire Going Movie Wars Star Star Wars

My life is organized chaos. Kathleen Kennedy

Life My Life Chaos Organized

I've had filmmakers, I even had Bono come and talk to me about having a sequel to 'E.T.' help with an environmental message - I listened. I can certainly understand. I mean, the great thing about Bono is that everything he does is in service to a greater cause. Kathleen Kennedy

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Nobody understands what a producer does. Kathleen Kennedy

Nobody Does Understands Producer

The problem with some truth-tellers is that they don't do it in a way that makes people want to listen. Kathleen Kennedy

People Problem Way Some Makes Listen Want The Problem With

We don't have any intention of beginning a trend of re-creating actors who are gone. Kathleen Kennedy

Trend Beginning Gone Any Intention Who Actor

Audiences still crave storytelling. Kathleen Kennedy

Audiences Still Crave Storytelling

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. Kathleen Kennedy

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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. Kathleen Kennedy

Work Teacher Class Theatre Would Had He Volunteer Also Make Bunch Loved Little Movies Us Flick Who Let Us

My story sort of sounds ridiculous because the first movie I produced was 'E.T.' Kathleen Kennedy

First Sort Because Sounds Movie Story Produced Ridiculous

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