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.
Kathleen Kennedy
Everybody always asks us how we choose the movies we have going right now, and it’s hard to explain sometimes. There’s a randomness to the way things kind of happen and get done. And sometimes you have this perfect storm, and you have to accept that and do the best you can.
Kathleen Kennedy
I don’t analyze things all the time, I just do them.
Kathleen Kennedy
Success is always a matter of some luck and timing.
Kathleen Kennedy
The most important thing is to have a point of view and have something to say. That is important if you are filmmaker or artist. That means you have to experience the world.
Kathleen Kennedy
The producer, in effect, has to work as a translator. You form a very tight relationship with the director and writer from the beginning, and then you are constantly communicating to the various people that begin to come into the process, as you are trying to manage to hold on to a vision that needs to be communicated over a long period of time.
Kathleen Kennedy
I suppose I was always attracted to the producing function – trying to put things together and make things happen.
Kathleen Kennedy
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.
Kathleen Kennedy
I started out as a camera operator. I was doing news, and I was doing sports – baseball games and football games. And I was acutely aware of women not really being in those roles then.
Kathleen Kennedy
It’s funny where life can take you.
Kathleen Kennedy
From a producing standpoint, I think prep is everything.
Kathleen Kennedy
Nobody understands what a producer does.
Kathleen Kennedy
I don’t know how to make movies without getting my hands dirty.
Kathleen Kennedy
Sometimes women don’t take the initiative that they should.
Kathleen Kennedy
I find that a lot of directors are attracted to the dark side.
Kathleen Kennedy
Creating authentic emotional experiences, whether it’s ‘Star Wars’ or ‘Spotlight,’ are driven by characters and stories that are engaging.
Kathleen Kennedy
I’m not great at talking about myself.
Kathleen Kennedy
People want to make a distinction between what’s commercial and what’s art.
Kathleen Kennedy
There’s no way a director can communicate with every single person on the set and yet they need to motivate and instill an ambition to want to do their best work.
Kathleen Kennedy
Many great stories are father issues, mother issues or death.
Kathleen Kennedy
When you’re relegated to go from movie to movie, so much of what you’re doing is out of your control beyond creating the product.
Kathleen Kennedy
You know, I’ve always been very open to any project.
Kathleen Kennedy
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.
Kathleen Kennedy
A lot of these big movies are just a collection or a montage of big set pieces.
Kathleen Kennedy
If it’s a huge tentpole movie, for instance with a movie like ‘Tintin,’ a year and a half, almost two years in advance, we were developing a videogame campaign and massive consumer products campaign.
Kathleen Kennedy
I think it’s always wise to be concerned about any of the characters in ‘Star Wars,’ right?
Kathleen Kennedy
The ‘Star Wars’ universe is full of technological and cutting-edge effects, which Base FX will be a wonderful partner to create with.
Kathleen Kennedy
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.
Kathleen Kennedy
A lot of directors will do a certain amount of storyboarding and pre-vis, and yet when they get on the set, everything starts to change, and they have new ideas.
Kathleen Kennedy
If all you’re doing is playing it safe – trying to make the same movie over and over again – that’s when the audiences say, ‘Oh, this is just a moneymaking machine.’ But if it’s genuinely in service to the art form, then the franchise concept is being used in a way that’s exciting.
Kathleen Kennedy
It’s not fun to lose.
Kathleen Kennedy
I would hate to be in a situation where my entire focus was obsessing around the issue of whether we’re going to win best picture.
Kathleen Kennedy
I have a very fun husband. He’s managed to hang on to every person he’s known since grammar school.
Kathleen Kennedy
When we built Amblin, we even put Murphy beds in there because we thought that was so practical. Why would anybody, if you were working on something, need to go home at night? You’d just stay there, wake up in the morning, and carry on.
Kathleen Kennedy
We are going to hire a woman who’s going to direct a ‘Star Wars’ movie. I have no doubt.
Kathleen Kennedy
If we do want to bring a woman in to direct a ‘Star Wars’… we don’t want to talk somebody into it.
Kathleen Kennedy
The ‘Star Wars’ saga is about a series of seemingly chance encounters. They impact the destiny of everyone involved.
Kathleen Kennedy
When I joined Lucasfilm, I immediately saw the true passion shared by ‘Star Wars’ fans around the world.
Kathleen Kennedy
My life is organized chaos.
Kathleen Kennedy
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.
Kathleen Kennedy
Probably the biggest contribution that Disney has made to the Lucasfilm franchise management was their international component. That was something Lucasfilm hadn’t made significant inroads with.
Kathleen Kennedy
I’ve had filmmakers, I even had Bono come and talk to me about having a sequel to ‘E.T.’ help with an environmental message – I listened. I can certainly understand. I mean, the great thing about Bono is that everything he does is in service to a greater cause.
Kathleen Kennedy
I think most fans of movies that have withstood the test of time don’t like for them to be tinkered with. I think that’s a pretty general consensus. You like to remember what you started with.
Kathleen Kennedy
I think ‘E.T.’ came along at a time when it was probably meant to be.
Kathleen Kennedy
The problem with some truth-tellers is that they don’t do it in a way that makes people want to listen.
Kathleen Kennedy
We don’t have any intention of beginning a trend of re-creating actors who are gone.
Kathleen Kennedy
I don’t usually do remakes.
Kathleen Kennedy
Not every script that rolls in is ready to shoot. Few are, actually. So you go back and work on the thing.
Kathleen Kennedy
In the creative community, there’s no excuse for not making a more equitable environment.
Kathleen Kennedy
Audiences still crave storytelling.
Kathleen Kennedy
We look at Marvel, but we’re not trying to emulate that in any way. In fact, we talked often about how distinctive what we’re trying to do with ‘Star Wars’ is from Marvel. They’ve been extremely successful in exploiting the characters in that universe, and we have a place. We have the galaxy.
Kathleen Kennedy
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.
Kathleen Kennedy