If I were the most powerful person in Hollywood I would ...

''Do what I've always dreamed about doing, which is try to make movies like A Room With a View. Those are the movies that bring literature to life.''
— MARTHA STEWART

''Give everybody a day off.''
— ANTHONY EDWARDS

''Make hip-hop, but no rap. Rap is negative on society. Hip-hop is more about enjoying the beat and the rhythm.''
— CARMEN ELECTRA

''Try to make movies that are life-affirming ... visceral ... and touch the heart and the mind. I'd say, 'We're going to lose billions of dollars, but we're going to create art.'''
— KEVIN KLINE

''Make more films that educate.''
— MARIAH CAREY

''Make more movies like The Full Monty.''
— AUTHOR NICK PILEGGI

''Give every actor that wasn't working a part, because they all deserve a chance.''
— JENNIFER LOVE HEWITT

''Get rid of all of the small dogs, the ones smaller than a cat. I'd get rid of them right away.''
— DIRECTOR WES CRAVEN

''Give up my weekend shifts at Del Taco.''
— BILL MAHER

''Put five more Wayans in show business. Talent wouldn't be a prerequisite. All you'd have to do is be named Wayans.''
— KEENEN IVORY WAYANS

''Start over.''
— KIM BASINGER

''I'd make live-action musicals. It's become a lost art.''
— JASON ALEXANDER

''Probably hand it over to someone else. I don't really want the stress.''
— L.A. CONFIDENTIAL'S SIMON BAKER-DENNY

''Sit and think about it. That's probably the first thing I'd do.''
— JANET JACKSON

''Give directors complete creative control.''
— MONEY TALKS DIRECTOR BRETT RATNER

''Drop on my knees and pray and thank God.''
— ERIQ LASALLE

''Turn the clock back to 1934 and return to the studio system where the only thing really important would be the stories we'd be meagerly paid to tell.''
— STEVEN SPIELBERG

''Give women over 40 more roles. I'd make sure there was the female equivalent of Sean Connery.''
— TRACEY ULLMAN

''Invert salaries so that teachers would make what actors do.''
— ASHLEY JUDD

''Start an apprenticeship program so that young filmmakers would have mentors instead of being thrown to the sharks the way they are now.''
— PRODUCER LAWRENCE BENDER

''I'm not the most powerful person in Hollywood?''
— CONAN O'BRIEN

''Get a date with Sarah Michelle Gellar.''
— SLIDERS' JERRY O'CONNELL

''Sign the most ethnically diverse projects I could find.''
— SINBAD

''With apologies to Julia Roberts [in My Best Friend's Wedding], I would ban smoking in movies.''
— JANE PAULEY

''Make reservations at all the restaurants in town to see what table they put me at.''
— JON FAVREAU

'''If I ruled the world ... ' This is like a Miss America question. I would want everyone to get along, and there would be no more violent films, only comedies and heartwarming dramas.''
— NATHAN LANE

''Discourage gratuitous violence, except by Will Smith. He can do anything he wants.''
— FRAN DRESCHER