Lynda Obst Quotes

• True power is invisible and impeccable, like good taste. It is never clumsy or artless. Powerful people whisper, suggest, seduce, in order to coerce. They only use volume for effect. This is how you can tell a blowhard from a mogul. ... Most powerful people don't need to coerce; their mere presence is coercive.

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  Powerful, Order, True Power

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• The first thing you notice about women in Hollywood, besides their low percentage of body fat, is how few are married. And the number of great-looking, successful single women without a social life is staggering. ... The most glaring misconception about Hollywood is that it is the romance capital of the world.

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  Successful, Numbers, Romance

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• Always remember the famous adage about the movie business: You can't make a living, you can only get rich.

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  Hollywood, Remember, Rich

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• It is just as important to move on in the wake of stunning success as in the wake of disaster.

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  Success, Moving, Important

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• No single movie or event makes or breaks your career. Everything can be undone, including success.

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  Careers, Events, Make Or Break

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

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  Business, Color, Black

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• [On filmmaking:] Cardinal rule: It's a youth business.

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  Movie, Hollywood, Youth

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

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  Movie, Rooms, Stills

  Lynda Obst (2014). “Sleepless in Hollywood: Tales from the New Abnormal in the Movie Business”, p.6, Simon and Schuster

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• The only way I can access all my strength is to relax. ... The paradox is that you must learn to be relaxed while using all your power.

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  Relax, Way, Paradox

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• The key to moving a maybe to a yes is to make the buyer feel as though other buyers have already said yes. ... It helps if it's true, but it never is. No one wants to be the first yes. Why is this? I don't know, but I think it's anthropological.

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  Moving, Thinking, Keys

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

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  Power, Information, Tents

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• One of our jobs is to keep women working, which we do by keeping women coming to the movies. And doing that means making good, smart, often funny movies that women can identify with-with terrific dialogue we all remember and cherish, and stories that illuminate our lives and decisions and turning points.

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  Jobs, Smart, Mean

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• To whom one reports is a unit of measure. It measures the exact distance between the player and the center of power. It is the closest we can get to a calibrated answer to the question 'How big am I?' More than the size of an executive's office or even his title, which no one remembers anyway, the fewer people between the player and a 'yes,' the more powerful he is.

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  Powerful, Distance, Player

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• I think there are always actor parts, and then there are movie-star parts, and an actors always an actor until he does a movie-star part.

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  Stars, Thinking, Doe

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

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  Jobs, Work, Way

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• What turns a work crisis into a life crisis is the infusion of dread.

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  Work, Trouble, Infusion

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• Everything can be undone, including success.

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  Success, Undone, Including

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• Breakthroughs, in art, in culture, in personality, come when tackling the unexpected.

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  Change, Art, Personality

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• Self-love knows no impediment.

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  Self, Knows, Impediments

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• El amor y la amistad, dos de las recompensas más duraderas de la vida, son especies en peligro de extinción en Hollywood. La gente ansía ambos, confundiendo la alianza con la amistad, la lujuria con el amor y la ambición con ambos.

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  Ambition, Two, People

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• There is a fine line between perseverance and madness.

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  Perseverance, Lines, Madness

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• nerve, not talent, is the one necessary and sufficient trait for success. (Wouldn't it be ideal if it were talent? But talent with no nerve is like the sound of one hand clapping.

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  Courage, Hands, Sound

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

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  Movie, Ego Problem, Egomaniacs

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• My goal has been to learn how to get movies made without losing sight of the reasons I began. I have had to learn to recognize the insidious nature of the beast without becoming one.

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  Movie, Becoming One, Sight

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• When I was starting out, the first women studio heads and writers were just getting into their perches - development execs learning their chops.

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  Development, Starting Out, Firsts

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