Known by her film crews as "Mother Production," has a gold-embossed
sign on her desk, "No Whining".
Currently at work on a documentary for the British Film Institute, "Howard Hawks, American Artist", with her husband, John Carpenter. (2000)
Has lectured on film production at the University of Vienna (Austria)
Film School, the American Film Institute, and California State
University Long Beach. She was the first guest on the AOL Live Forum
for "24 Hours in Cyberpace".