Lauren Shuler Donner

“I think people really don't understand what a producer does versus what a director does. I mean, the producer is often the person that is on the movie the longest - it's their material that they are then bringing the director onto to bring it to the screen. Are we overlooked? Absolutely.”

“I like having an idea, or hearing an idea, and getting it into a proper script.”

“I'm dying to do a 'Gambit' movie with Channing Tatum.”

“You have to have somebody to root for. I truly believe that's how you ground a movie. You ground them in the characters.”

“I've been very fortunate, but it also never occurred to me that I couldn't do something or that I couldn't ask if I could try something.”

“I'm obsessed with 'Peaky Blinders.' Those characters are awful, and yet you root for them. You love them! Same with 'Breaking Bad.'”

“I stayed in the East for about a year after I graduated. Then, I came out to Los Angeles and started knocking on doors and working my way up. This was the '70s. I had been told how tough it was for a woman trying to make it in Hollywood, but I sort of had blinders on. I just did things anyway.”

“I've really tried to use the power of film to effect change.”

“We love 'X-Force.' It allows us to be a little grittier.”

“I've been looking for an opportunity to break into the Chinese market due to its devoted and passionate audience and have found the perfect partner in Cristal Pictures.”

“I wanted to tell people you can live a full life, even if you're not feeling well.”

“The first movie I produced was a movie that Joel Schumacher wrote and directed called 'Amateur Night at the Dixie Bar and Grill.'”

“I personally have close ties to Marvel because of Kevin Feige, because Kevin worked for me.”

“Dick understands what I go through. He understands the difficulty and the brutality of the business.”

“In the past, I've been a workaholic. I'm trying not to be anymore.”

“The first two actors we cast were Patrick Stewart and Ian McKellen. Because we started so highbrow, we were able to get anyone. Plus, some of these people have children, and their kids love 'X-Men.' They'll do it because of them - that's our little extra ace in the hole.”

“I'm a huge fan, and I didn't grow up with it, I didn't grow up reading 'X-Men' comics. I became a huge fan; I had somebody in my company who gave me the biographies of all the characters. I read Logan's first and was like, 'What a great, tragic character.' I just loved him.”

“I really liked 'Walk The Line,' and I really liked 'Girl Interrupted,' and I really liked '3:10 To Yuma.'”

“The thrill of doing television versus features is, in television, you get to focus more on the characters.”

“The thematic core of 'X-Men' is tolerance. It's that for those of us who are different in any way - in a big way, whether it's you're a minority, you're a woman, you're a Muslim, you are suppressed or marginalized - it can go the whole spectrum - but even if you are shy or you feel like an outsider - and X-Men are outsiders.”