I could always be me with Jane. She did not always agree, but she was never judgmental. As my teacher, she taught me to listen. "Bud (her affectionate name for me)," she would say, "you learn so much more when you are listening than when you speaking." Like an in-house 'Mother Theresa,' she taught me to serve all people, no matter who they are.
...She taught me to give talent a chance and to build on the strengths of people, a lesson that served me well in building my companies. Every actor she hired for her film gave incredible performances, and they did it for her. "We don't need stars, we need talented, committed, hard-working actors," she would say. And she found them.

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