A biography for Dawn Steelhasn’t been written yet.
“If the doors are going to close on me, it's a little late.”
“The first war movie I ever saw was 'Platoon,' and I was eight months pregnant. So my husband, producer Charles Roven, wasn't sure I'd make it.”
“I thought it was great being the only girl in the room. I loved the attention. After I got used to it, I didn't want to be the only girl in the room. I had no one to talk to.”
“In some ways I was curt because there's an unbelievable amount to accomplish in a day.”
“People on the lower rungs are more vulnerable to sexual harassment than those at the top.”
“I wouldn't want anyone to think that work is the major thing in my life.”
“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.”
“It's about passion, and if somebody is passionate about a development deal, they're going to get it made.”
“I felt more comfortable in TV than in the film world where the players were more erudite and intellectual.”
“I have to tell you, I'm a great teacher. Ask anybody who worked for me, except some secretaries who weren't very good.”
“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've gone far in the movie business, but no matter how far I go, every time I pick up the phone to call Tom Hanks or Robin Williams, I wonder if they'll call me back. And you know what? Sometimes they do, and sometimes they don't.”
“What sets Iris Stevenson apart is her success in a system that in no way supports her - with the hardest possible children to convert.”
“The men I worked for didn't look at me as having any gender at all. They regarded me more as a workhorse.”
“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 was trained to be loud, passionate, direct. I didn't realize for the longest time I was intimidating.”
“Don't believe everything you read in the trades.”
“Some children's music is aimed just at kids, and it can be very childlike.”
“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.”
“If I can do it, anyone can do it.”