Dawn Steel

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

There's no training for the business, no credentials necessary to enter... It's all about entrepreneurs, innate street intelligence, and instincts. It's a business which encourages people with dreams. That's the essence of Hollywood.

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 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.