SELF PORTRAIT

Dawn Hudson

■ DATE AND PLACE OF BIRTH: Jan. 4, 1956, Hot Springs

■ WHAT I LOVE MOST ABOUT MY JOB IS: The incredible people I work with.

■ THE LAST MOVIE I SAW WAS: Steven Spielberg’s “West Side Story.” Loved.

■ THE BEST ADVICE I’VE EVER GOTTEN WAS: Hire people who are smarter than you.

■ MY FIRST JOB WAS: Cleaning law offices for state Rep. Ray Smith Jr. while in high school.

■ THE BOOKS I’M CURRENTLY READING ARE: Jonathan Franzen’s “Crossroads”; Deesha Philyaw’s “The Secret Lives of Church Ladies”; Vladimir Nabokov’s “Speak, Memory.” Also, just finished listening to a wonderful recording of Mark Harris’ “Mike Nichols: A Life.”

■ IN MY FREE TIME I LOVE TO: Watch movies!

■ SOME OF MY FAVORITE MOVIES I’VE WATCHED IN THE LAST FEW MONTHS ARE: Robert Altman’s “McCabe and Mrs. Miller”; Hal Ashby’s “Harold and Maude”; Susanne Bier’s “After the Wedding”; Francis Ford Coppola’s “The Conversation”; John Farrow’s “His Kind of Woman”; Wong Karwai’s “In the Mood for Love”; Spike Lee’s “He Got Game”; Lilly and Lana Wachowski’s “The Matrix”; Lulu Wang’s “The Farewell”; Boaz Yakin’s “Remember the Titans.”

■ AS A STUDENT, I WAS: Reading everything I could get my hands on.

■ MY FIRST IMPRESSION OF HOLLYWOOD WAS: Glamorous! Convertibles and people who dreamed big dreams.

■ I AM CURRENTLY WATCHING: All the Oscar contenders.

■ MY FANTASY DINNER PARTY WOULD INCLUDE: Stacey Abrams, Madeleine Albright, Elaine May, Adam McKay, Guillermo del Toro, E.B. White.

■ WHEN I RETIRE, I PLAN TO: Who’s retiring?

■ THE ONE WORD TO SUM ME UP: Committed