PGA’s David O. Selznick Honoree Amy Pascal On What Makes A Great Producer

“The way I became a producer was pretty f*cked, then I got lucky, then it was all pretty hard anyway,” said former Sony Pictures Entertainment co-Chair turned tentpole producer Amy Pascal during her sage and pragmatic acceptance speech for the David O. Selznick Award at the PGAs tonight. That sarcastic

The PGA’s David O. Selznick Award recognizes a producer or producing team for their extraordinary body of work in motion pictures. Tonight Pascal joined a distinguished line of recipients that includes Steven Spielberg, Barbara Broccoli, Billy Wilder, Frank Marshall, Kathleen Kennedy, Mary Parent, Tom Cruise, Martin Scorsese and last year’s Chris Meledandri.

The producer of the Tom Holland Spider-Man movies, Spiderverse animated trilogy and the upcoming Amazon MGM Studios’ Project Hail Mary laid out a list of axioms for being a producer.

“All my life people have said relationships are bad for business, I really struggle with that,…