Chops Quote by Lynda Obst

In most fields of endeavor there are no easy jobs; there are only graceful ways of performing difficult ones.

— Lynda Obst

The lack of women directors is a sad fact of life. Kathryn Bigelow's thrilling Best Director win may help turn things around.

— Lynda Obst

with all these tentpoles, franchises, reboots and sequels, is there still room for movies in the movie business?

— Lynda Obst

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…

— Lynda Obst

Ego problems are endemic in every walk of life, but in the movie business egomaniacs are megalomaniacs.

— Lynda Obst

I think there are always actor parts, and then there are movie-star parts, and an actor's always an actor until he does a movie-star…

— Lynda Obst

Like the color black, business mixed with anything turns to business.

— Lynda Obst

Directing is the last frontier for women in the movie business. We are studio heads, we are producers and we are writers, but we…

— Lynda Obst

Information is currency. ... Power is a place as well as a verb; it is inside the information tent.

— Lynda Obst

To whom one reports is a unit of measure. It measures the exact distance between the player and the center of power. It is…

— Lynda Obst

The first thing you notice about women in Hollywood, besides their low percentage of body fat, is how few are married. And the number…

— Lynda Obst

One of our jobs is to keep women working, which we do by keeping women coming to the movies. And doing that means making…

— Lynda Obst