“Like many junior executives, Dawn Steel served as punching bag/chum for her bosses. Once the marketing chief, Frank Mancuso, asked her to tell Steven Spielberg the release date of one of his movies; Spielberg immediately retorted, “Who are you to tell me when the release date is?” FilmmakingParamountHollywood CultureWomen In FilmHollywood QuotesSteven SpielbergParamount Quotes Book:Is That a Gun in Your Pocket?: Women's Experience of Power in Hollywood Source: Is That a Gun in Your Pocket?: Women's Experience of Power in Hollywood
“The first time Polly Platt met Jim Brooks to discuss Terms of Endearment (1983), she was distinctly unimpressed. “I was infuriated that he was that late,” she recalls. “Fifteen minutes or half an hour, who cares, but to be a whole hour late.” She waited for him at Gladstone’s, a tacky tourist joint on the Pacific Coast Highway. “I just remember I didn’t like him ... I just didn’t like his turn of phrase ... I didn’t like the way he referred to the people. I didn’t like the people he was talking about working with.” FilmmakingFilmmakersFilmmaking Quotes1980s HollywoodWoman In Business Book:Is That a Gun in Your Pocket?: The Truth About Female Power in Hollywood Source: Is That a Gun in Your Pocket?: The Truth About Female Power in Hollywood