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Hollywood&#;s Most Powerful Women: When My Work Matters Most (and Least)
The Hollywood Reporter's annual Women in Entertainment Power list this year included the powerhouses behind networks, studios and the year's biggest shows, from NBCUniversal's Bonnie Hammer to Oprah Winfrey to Ellen DeGeneres to ABC Entertainment's Channing Dungey.
As part of the annual feature, THR asked the women a series of questions about career, role models and the best thing about working in Hollywood.
Below, 27 of the women who made the list share the times when they feel their work matters most — and when it matters least.
Whether it's finding inspiration when audience members identify with their show's characters or coping with frustration when behind-the-scenes drama outshines the action onscreen, their honest (and, in some cases, surprising) responses reveal the intense ups and downs of working in Hollywood. — FarnoushAmiri
Kristine Belson
When I feel my work matters most “When I am able to provide filmmakers with the support and the freedom that they need to do their best work.”
When I feel my work matters least “If I micromanage people!
The key to success is surrounding yourself with the best people and then getting out of their way.”
Suzan Bymel
When I feel my work matters most “When I am involved either as a manager or a producer in telling stories that have the potential to enlighten, educate and inspire people.
Mentoring is one of my greatest joys and I&#;m very proud that we have a culture at that emphasizes training and promoting from within — three of my partners and numerous execs at my company all started out as my assistants!!
Maha Dakhil
When I feel my work matters most “When I have identified a new voice or new project that I champion against all adversity all the way to the finish.”
When I feel my work matters least “When I have spent countless hours on imaginary films.”
Ellen DeGeneres
When I feel my work matters most “I wanna spread kindness and make people happy and I can’t think of a time when people needed it more.”
When I feel my work matters least “You know, I do some woodcarving on the side and I don&#;t always feel it gets the attention it deserves.”
Nancy Dubuc
When I feel my work matters most “When a viewer reached out to tell us how a program changed their life.
Biography for kids amelia earhart Moving her business to Warner Bros. Director: James Burrows , Max Tash. Whether it's finding inspiration when audience members identify with their show's characters or coping with frustration when behind-the-scenes drama outshines the action onscreen, their honest and, in some cases, surprising responses reveal the intense ups and downs of working in Hollywood. Walden also greenlit the No.We&#;ve experienced that many times especially with Intervention. To say it&#;s humbling is an understatement.”
Channing Dungey
When I feel my work matters most “When I overhear people in line at the store or at an adjacent table in a restaurant talking about a storyline from one of our shows that engaged, entertained or inspired them — particularly if it’s a story that made them think about the world in a different way.”
Lena Dunham and Jenni Konner
When I feel my work matters most “When people tell us it made them feel more comfortable being themselves.”
When I feel my work matters least “The day after the election.”
Bonnie Hammer
When I feel my work matters most “Getting to a point where it&#;s less about ratings and more about creating great quality content and working as a team and being able to have those great debates with your team.”
Cindy Holland
When I feel my work matters most “When members tell me how much our programming means to them, and when it moves the needle on issues.”
When I feel my work matters least “When someone says, ‘don’t worry your little head.’”
Gale Anne Hurd
When I feel my work matters most “If I can advocate for someone who might otherwise have been overlooked, or open people&#;s minds to different ways of seeing the world, then I feel like I&#;m making a difference.”
Nina Jacobson
When I feel my work matters most “When you challenge the status quo.”
When I feel my work matters least “When you get bogged down in the minutia.
When drama behind the scenes, supersedes the drama onscreen.”
Megyn Kelly
When I feel my work matters most “Every night. On each show we have the responsibility of informing people of the news that affects their lives and holding leaders to account for their misrepresentations, misdeeds and broken promises &#; which keeps us very busy.”
Kathleen Kennedy
When I feel my work matters most “When it really affects people.
I can’t wait to sit and watch not so much the movie, but the audience.”
Jenji Kohan
When I feel my work matters most “When people are able to identify and empathize with characters who are totally unlike them on the surface.”
When I feel my work matters least “After people have binged for three days straight, then move on to something else.”
Debra Lee
When I feel my work matters most “When I am able to work and tell stories from a different perspective.
Suzan by mel biography for kids Director: Doug Liman. One thing I can never get to "Cooking my own dinner. I've encountered unconscious bias when "Only women on a panel get asked the 'work-life balance' question. The chairman asked me to get him a cocktail.I was very proud of our first miniseries The Book of Negroes, which shed a light on African slaves that won their freedom during the Revolutionary War. Now, we are working on a three-night mini-series Madiba, which will be the first telling of Nelson Mandela’s story by an African American director, Kevin Hooks and we are very excited about the upcoming The New Edition Story, which will shed a light on one of America’s first popular boy bands.”
When I feel my work matters least “When I am spending time with my family.”
Lori McCreary
When I feel my work matters most “When someone’s mind is opened to another’s circumstances and decides to reach out to someone they would not have otherwise.”
When I feel my work matters least “Sometimes when I’m in the room with real politicians and policy makers, I think — wow — I work in the fake State Department and they’re the ones who are actually doing it!”
Hannah Minghella
When I feel my work matters most “When you work on a movie that feels as though it has something to say that is relevant to the world we’re living in, where you can intersect with a cultural conversation.”
When I feel my work matters least “Well, we’re not saving lives.
So whenever I talk to somebody who is a true, everyday hero, what we do seems a little less essential.”
Courteney Monroe
When I feel my work matters most “When I find my kids watching National Geographic.”
When I feel my work matters least “When I talk to my husband, who works at a non-profit aimed at helping veterans, about his job.”
Jennifer Yuh Nelson
When I feel my work matters most “When people on the crew tell me they’re proud of their work.”
When I feel my work matters least “When I&#;m having fun drawing my boards in my room.
No one will ever see them, so they only matter to me.”
Cynthia Pett
When I feel my work matters most “When work and friendship collide: being able to keep my client and dear friend Brad Pitt’s movie career on track even through the storm of publicity and knowing we always have each other’s backs”
Shonda Rhimes
When I feel my work matters most “When I overhear people in line at the store or at an adjacent table in a restaurant talking about a storyline from one of our shows that engaged, entertained or inspired them — particularly if it’s a story that made them think about the world in a different way.”
Jennifer Salke
When I feel my work matters most “I most feel the impact of our work when we are lucky enough to have a big hit show that touches so many people&#;s lives in a positive way.
One of the great joys of network television is its unparalleled reach and the ability to connect with a really broad audience. I&#;ve had the privilege of experiencing that in my career with shows like Glee, Modern Family and now, This is Us.”
Jill Soloway
When I feel my work matters most “Right now.
More than ever.
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Beatrice Springborn
When I feel my work matters most “When we work with first time creators like Jessica Goldberg, Julie Klausner and ZanderLehmann. You are giving them a platform for their voice and deliver and then some. When I am still at work bleary eyed on Friday at 9 p.m.
Suzan by mel biography for kids youtube Young people in my life are most impressed by "My playlists. You are giving them a platform for their voice and deliver and then some. Ellison may be in a fallow period — a slew of top executives have left her company in the wake of several box office duds The Sisters Brothers, Destroyer and letting Hustlers and Bombshell go. Times delivery.with the Originals team and realize even at that hour, I still love my job and I wouldn’t want to be doing it without the most smart, fun, strong hardest working team in TV.”
When I feel my work matters least “When I&#;m making my daughter hot chocolate. When I’m with friends who don&#;t work in this business.
When I get to spend time outdoors — like Griffith Park or just laying in the sun in the grass. When I get to travel for pleasure. All of these remind me that there is a big wide world outside of our bubble.”
Dana Walden
When I feel my work matters most “When it brings people together, like with Empire or This Is Us.
” When I feel my work matters least “When one of my daughters is having a crisis”
Laura Wasser
When I feel my work matters most “When I am helping families move to the next chapter of their lives, peacefully.”
When I feel my work matters least “When I am fielding media.”
Oprah Winfrey
When I feel my work matters most “I feel my work matters most when the audience sees themselves in the work.”
What an awful shock and humiliation to see the deep distrust and dislike of anyone Other than a white cis man play out on a global level. Women, people of color and queer folk are beginning to connect and align over our shared struggle to be the subject instead of the object. Now every last one of us must power up and demand access to the tools of power, which include the propaganda of protagonism.
So my work matters most when I meet writers who tell me that watching my work inspired them to create.”
When I feel my work matters least “If I take a nap in the afternoon, in the few moments after I wake up I’m under the deep impression that nothing matters and everything I do is a waste of time.
Luckily that only lasts for a few minutes!”
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