If the doors are going to close on me, it's a little late.
What sets Iris Stevenson apart is her success in a system that in no way supports her - with the hardest possible children to convert.
We manufacture a culture in the movie business, and whatever we put out creates a dark side and a bright side, too.
It hurt me deeply, this reputation as tough, hard, mean.
In some ways I was curt because there's an unbelievable amount to accomplish in a day.
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.
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 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.
That's my proudest accomplishment: that I don't feel like a grown-up.
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 have to tell you, I'm a great teacher. Ask anybody who worked for me, except some secretaries who weren't very good.
Some friends of mine had parents who made school a treat, a gift - not something to be endured.
It's unfathomable how you live without your mother.
I had an obsession with underarm shields - pointy ones, round ones, full ones, half ones.
If you can market smut and toilet paper, you can market movies.
Working together is the quickest road to marital problems.
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.
I wouldn't want anyone to think that work is the major thing in my life.
Having money is better than not having it, but I've been poor, and I've survived.
It's about passion, and if somebody is passionate about a development deal, they're going to get it made.
