Producers should have the courage of their convictions. See your project through to its fruition. Seek help and be generous enough to take on collaborators and not be territorial as you're learning.

As a producer, it's your job to bang on the table and convince studio heads why great movies should be made.

Winning an Oscar attracts the attention of directors and other actors and creates a boost in salary, particularly for someone like Halle Berry. For an established star like Denzel Washington, the benefits are less tangible.

The film world is always looking for great source material, and Broadway has traditionally and historically been a place to go.

I just find my creativity manifesting a bunch of different ways.

A disaster where marble has been substituted for imagination.

I've just been learning how to direct my own videos, choreography, doing costumes... every creative opportunity there is with my music I've taken.

I've always been in love with film and music.