Lynda Obst
Lynda Obst
Lynda Rosen Obstis an American feature film producer and author...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionProducer
Date of Birth14 April 1950
CountryUnited States of America
relax way paradox
The only way I can access all my strength is to relax. ... The paradox is that you must learn to be relaxed while using all your power.
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The lack of women directors is a sad fact of life. Kathryn Bigelow's thrilling Best Director win may help turn things around.
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Every single one of us who has been a 'Woman in Film' for more than five minutes is sick of the phrase 'Women in Film.'
moving thinking keys
The key to moving a maybe to a yes is to make the buyer feel as though other buyers have already said yes. ... It helps if it's true, but it never is. No one wants to be the first yes. Why is this? I don't know, but I think it's anthropological.
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Every single one of us who has been a Woman in Film for more than five minutes is sick of the phrase Women in Film.
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When I was starting out, the first women studio heads and writers were just getting into their perches - development execs learning their chops.
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Love and friendship, two of life's abiding rewards, are endangered species in Hollywood. People crave both, mistaking alliance for friendship, lust for love, and ambition for both.
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Ego problems are endemic in every walk of life, but in the movie business egomaniacs are megalomaniacs.
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My goal has been to learn how to get movies made without losing sight of the reasons I began. I have had to learn to recognize the insidious nature of the beast without becoming one.
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My sense of Los Angeles was very New York provincial, as in 'all those people are crazy out there' (which they are), and stupid (which they're not), and immoral (it's more interesting than that).
movie hollywood youth
[On filmmaking:] Cardinal rule: It's a youth business.
powerful distance player
To whom one reports is a unit of measure. It measures the exact distance between the player and the center of power. It is the closest we can get to a calibrated answer to the question 'How big am I?' More than the size of an executive's office or even his title, which no one remembers anyway, the fewer people between the player and a 'yes,' the more powerful he is.
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Like the tectonic plate it sits upon, Hollywood is subject to seismic jolts and constant tremors. Each season erupts with a new champion, and every so often a genuine earthquake will tear down the apparently secure infrastructure.
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Always remember the famous adage about the movie business: You can't make a living, you can only get rich.