When I get anxious and scared, I probably lose my temper more than I should.
From Dawn Steel
Foreign revenues are tremendously important, but foreign audiences are dying for American movies, not for films they could make themselves.
The men I worked for didn't look at me as having any gender at all. They regarded me more as a workhorse.
I love stories about underdogs.
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.
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.
We have to make some movies we have passion for, respect for.
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.
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.
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.
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