A biography for Kathleen Kennedyhasn’t been written yet.
“You know, I've always been very open to any project.”
“If we do want to bring a woman in to direct a 'Star Wars'... we don't want to talk somebody into it.”
“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.”
“Many great stories are father issues, mother issues or death.”
“We have an amazing team at ILM who can create fantastic effects.”
“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.”
“We knew that for E.T. to feel real, you had to have some connection to his eyes.”
“The problem with some truth-tellers is that they don't do it in a way that makes people want to listen.”
“Audiences still crave storytelling.”
“I've always said that I don't want to be in front of the camera.”
“I always feel that the best kind of producing - and frankly, it has to do with what I like to do - is you're the big-picture person.”
“A lot of these big movies are just a collection or a montage of big set pieces.”
“Nobody understands what a producer does.”
“Having a female point of view in the room - when you get into a discussion about behavior - who would say what and how they would interact with one another. In certain situations, women are going to have a different opinion on that than men. It made for a really balanced conversation in the room.”
“Sometimes women don't take the initiative that they should.”
“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.”
“It's an interesting thing when you're casting a film - especially when you're trying to discover someone - you're waiting for someone to step into the room in an audition process and claim the role.”
“We don't have any intention of beginning a trend of re-creating actors who are gone.”
“Lucasfilm looks out for 'Star Wars.' What are the values inherent in 'Star Wars' that we want to protect? It's fragile to a certain extent in that it's a single IP.”
“Inside 'Star Wars' are values that mean something to people. It's aspirational. It's full of hope.”