It's unfathomable how you live without your mother.

I love stories about underdogs.

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

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.