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" 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. "

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

" If I can do it, anyone can do it. "

" Some children's music is aimed just at kids, and it can be very childlike. "

" I don't know that I would say abrasive. In some ways, I was curt because there's an unbelievable amount to accomplish in a day, and maybe I was insensitive considering the pressures and responsibilities of these jobs. "

" I have to tell you, I'm a great teacher. Ask anybody who worked for me, except some secretaries who weren't very good. "

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

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

" 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. "

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

" It hurt me deeply, this reputation as tough, hard, mean. "

" It's unfathomable how you live without your 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? "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" The men I worked for didn't look at me as having any gender at all. They regarded me more as a workhorse. "

" 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. "

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

" 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've gone far in the movie business, but no matter how far I go, every time I pick up the phone to call Tom Hanks or Robin Williams, I wonder if they'll call me back. And you know what? Sometimes they do, and sometimes they don't. "

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

Working Together

" 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. "

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

" Some friends of mine had parents who made school a treat, a gift - not something to be endured. "

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