The movie business can be very frustrating and very circuitous; theres no straight path. You have to have … - Denise Di Novi

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Happiness is determined by factors like your health, your family relationships and friendships, and above all by feeling that you are in control of how you spend your time.

Denise Di Novi

The movie business can be very frustrating and very circuitous; theres no straight path. You have to have tremendous perseverance, dedication and passion. You have to want it very, very badly and you have to deal with a lot of rejection.

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I thought, 'I loved Batman, I loved Spider-Man, I love all these characters, but Catwoman is really different from any other one. '

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One common desire that every human being has is to love and be loved. At the end of our lives, it's how we measure our lives.

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If you're lucky enough to experience love, what you find is that it can sustain you through the most difficult times.

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Everybody's been decrying the death of movie theaters for decades and, you know, people are still going to the movies in droves. It's gone down, but it hasn't gone down that much. I think the biggest change has been the emergence of cable and streaming on television. That has really had a dramatic effect, and I think it's a positive one. I think there's really good work going on there, and as movies stratify to being these gigantic tentpole movies, and small movies, I think it gives another outlet for character-driven material.

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There were a few before me, there was a generation that started a little bit before me of women producers and Sherry Lansing, she was the first woman studio president, and she was really inspiring to me. I was inspired by other women in other fields, I was an adolescent in the 70s with the second wave feminism, and I got very inspired by that and felt like, you know what, there's no reason why I can't do this.

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