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" If you can market smut and toilet paper, you can market movies. "

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" I wanted to be respected by filmmakers, and why should they respect me if they saw that my superiors did not treat me with respect. "

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" We have to make some movies we have passion for, respect for. "

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" I was the first studio executive to meet with Sean Penn after 'Taps' in 1981. I was anxious to develop things with him when nobody knew who he was. "

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" I think women's relationships with other women are very complicated and depend on their relationships with their mothers. Mine was fraught with problems. So I didn't necessarily trust women for a long time. "

" Working together is the quickest road to marital problems. "

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" You do sequels because they are tent poles. They open well, and they hold the tent up. But in between, you make a movie you respect. "

" What sets Iris Stevenson apart is her success in a system that in no way supports her - with the hardest possible children to convert. "

" I would walk into my office, and I would close the door, and I would say, 'I won't cry, I won't cry, I won't cry'... At least, I wasn't going to let them see me cry. "

" The first war movie I ever saw was 'Platoon,' and I was eight months pregnant. So my husband, producer Charles Roven, wasn't sure I'd make it. "

" A really hard lesson to learn is that most of the time, it's not about you. "

" I was trained to be loud, passionate, direct. I didn't realize for the longest time I was intimidating. "

" When I get anxious and scared, I probably lose my temper more than I should. "

" It's about passion, and if somebody is passionate about a development deal, they're going to get it made. "

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" Visibility is dangerous because if a guy cuts you off in traffic, you can't call him a name - it might get to the press. "

" Historically, Vietnam movies have been profitable. All of them. 'Platoon,' 'Full Metal Jacket,' 'Apocalypse Now,' 'The Deer Hunter.' You're looking at movies that have been not pretty successful, but very successful. The foreign numbers have been extraordinary. "

" Dishonesty, lack of integrity catches up with you. "

" It wasn't until I saw 'Rocky' that I realized movies could affect people beyond mere entertainment. "

" I was so busy climbing up this ladder, staying above the water. If there was only room for one woman in a room, I wanted to be her. I'm not proud of it. I certainly don't feel that way now. It was an absolute evolution for me. "

" Foreign revenues are tremendously important, but foreign audiences are dying for American movies, not for films they could make themselves. "

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" It's unfathomable how you live without your mother. "