Laura Ziskin

I was diagnosed with breast cancer in 2004.

— Laura Ziskin

Cancer is everybody's cause.

— Laura Ziskin

In my world, the hero always defeats the villain, the boy always gets the girl, and cancer is no more,

— Laura Ziskin

You know I'm proud that I was able to develop and produce movies that I wanted to make.

— Laura Ziskin

For me as a filmmaker, I do the projects I'm really excited about.

— Laura Ziskin

I had very few skills. If I hadn't been a producer I'd been a failed actor. That would have been really disastrous.

— Laura Ziskin

What's great about making movies is the sort of additive process of bringing people together and having an idea and watching the…

— Laura Ziskin

What's great about making movies is the sort of additive process of bringing people together and having an idea and watching the…

— Laura Ziskin

I think being a producer makes you a problem solver, so you kind of go, "Well there's a problem. What do we…

— Laura Ziskin

I describe myself as someone who was always putting on a show, even when I was a little girl. I wanted to…

— Laura Ziskin

When I was diagnosed I didn't know how epidemic cancer was. You find out that everybody you know is touched by this…

— Laura Ziskin

Most movies don't have the ability to find an audience. So the movie plays out very quickly in a lot of theaters…

— Laura Ziskin

I think it's hard for women to be directors, particularly in the feature world because, biologically, your peak career-making years are also…

— Laura Ziskin

Movies are arguably the most influential, important medium in the world. They have a tremendous cultural impact. Because women are now making…

— Laura Ziskin

In some ways, the most rewarding thing I've done were the two times that I did the Oscars, particularly the first time…

— Laura Ziskin