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?
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.
