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

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" I wouldn't want anyone to think that work is the major thing in my life. "

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

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

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

" I started with nothing. Less than nothing. "

" I think exciting sexuality is part of the fantasy, part of the entertainment of a love story. "

" 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. "

" That's my proudest accomplishment: that I don't feel like a grown-up. "

" You're not free in life until you're free of wanting other people's approval. "

" There's no training for the business, no credentials necessary to enter... It's all about entrepreneurs, innate street intelligence, and instincts. It's a business which encourages people with dreams. That's the essence of Hollywood. "

" I thought it was great being the only girl in the room. I loved the attention. After I got used to it, I didn't want to be the only girl in the room. I had no one to talk to. "

" 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. "

" I just love the idea of ordinary people doing extraordinary things, whether it's the success of 'Cool Runnings,' which is the success of four guys from Jamaica who had never seen snow, or whether it's my success, just as a human being. "

" I felt more comfortable in TV than in the film world where the players were more erudite and intellectual. "

" People on the lower rungs are more vulnerable to sexual harassment than those at the top. "

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

" Don't believe everything you read in the trades. "

" The more I can stay on the creative side, the happier I am. "

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

" 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. "

" I hate management. I hate management. I just do. "

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

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

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" I'd like my epitaph to read 'Given the amount of time she had, she did the best job she could.' Also that I'm a nice person... and a good mother. "

" In my family, education was something you endured. My parents weren't educated past high school, and the only book in our house was a 'Reader's Digest' condensed book. Can you imagine? "

" Having money is better than not having it, but I've been poor, and I've survived. "

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

" 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. "