I remember somebody had said to me "What're you doing with a movie like Boiler Room? It's all men and you're a woman. You should be making romantic comedies," or something like that. Boiler Room, for me, was a morality… — Suzanne Todd Copy Share
That can be undersold, I think, the importance when you're trying to do something good is that everybody understands the director's vision, everybody believes… — Suzanne Todd Copy Share Image
Somebody pointed out to me that there's no horror film on my resume, which is true, but I also don't really go see those… — Suzanne Todd Copy Share Image
The hard thing for me, and it took me many years to understand, the concept of Hollywood not being a meritocracy - I am… — Suzanne Todd Copy Share Image
I remember somebody had said to me "What're you doing with a movie like Boiler Room? It's all men and you're a woman. You should be making romantic comedies," or something like that. Boiler Room, for me, was a morality tale. I remember this interview where they said to me "Yeah, but all the characters are men," and I was… — Suzanne Todd Copy Share
The crazy thing is, I sent out 200 letters and I got one job interview, and I actually got that job, which was working as a development assistant at Joel Silver's company. I always say that to people when they ask "What do I do?" and I'm like, "Look, I didn't get ten responses, and I didn't get five interviews,… — Suzanne Todd Copy Share
I think producing is first about understanding and finding people who understand it in the same way throughout the crew and everybody who's going… — Suzanne Todd Copy Share Image
I only worked on that one movie, but then quickly realized that the path of being an assistant director was not gonna get me to producing. It's a different path coming up through production management and then line producing. So I basically was in the position where I was going to take any job that felt creative, like the one… — Suzanne Todd Copy Share
The first thing you do as a producer is you try to understand the director's vision in as deeply a way as you can.… — Suzanne Todd Copy Share Image
The industry has changed in big ways. When I started making movies, the studios were not all owned by huge conglomerates, so the decisions were made in a very different way. Over the years, I've watched both the rise and the decimation and fall of the DVD as a portion of where you could generate revenue from making this kind… — Suzanne Todd Copy Share
It takes a number of different skill sets, I think, to try and be a good producer. You have to be very creative, but… — Suzanne Todd Copy Share Image
I think Memento movie was hard because people didn't get it, they just didn't understand it. Not from the stage when we read the… — Suzanne Todd Copy Share Image
There's a thing about Hollywood where there are at least a couple of guys that behind closed doors and in small circles we think… — Suzanne Todd Copy Share Image
