In his first interview in over a year, the disgraced Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein called himself a “forgotten man,” saying that he should be remembered for the opportunities he provided to female actors and directors, rather than for the allegations of sexual assault lodged against him.

“I made more movies directed by women and about women than any filmmaker, and I’m talking about 30 years ago, I’m not talking about now when it’s vogue,” The New York Post quoted Mr. Weinstein as saying. “I did it first, I pioneered it.”

He added: “My work has been forgotten.”

The interview, which appeared in The Post’s Page Six gossip column on Sunday, comes just weeks before his trial on rape charges in Manhattan. It was conducted on Friday in a private room at the NewYork-Presbyterian/Weill Cornell Medical Center, a day after he underwent back surgery to repair a spinal injury he suffered during a car accident in August.

In the interview, Mr. Weinstein specifically mentioned the actress Gwyneth Paltrow who, he said, was paid $10 million in 2003 to make the movie “View From the Top” at a time when he ran the film studio Miramax. “She was the highest-paid female actor in an independent film, higher paid than all the men,” Mr. Weinstein told The Post.

Ms. Paltrow later accused Mr. Weinstein of luring her to a hotel room when she was 22 and trying to give her a massage.

Mr. Weinstein also told The Post that after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, he helped raise $100 million for emergency responders through the charity the Robin Hood Foundation. After dozens of women made allegations against him, he resigned from the foundation’s board of directors.

According to The Post, Mr. Weinstein, 67, declined to discuss the charges he is facing in his trial, which is set to begin on Jan. 6 in State Supreme Court in Manhattan. He stands accused of raping one woman, who has not been identified, at a Midtown hotel in March 2003 and of forcing a second, Mimi Haleyi, a production assistant, to allow him to perform oral sex on her at his Manhattan apartment in 2006.

The reaction to Mr. Weinstein’s statements to The Post was swift and furious.

On Sunday night, 23 women who have accused Mr. Weinstein of sexual misconduct — among them, the actresses Rosanna Arquette and Ashley Judd — released a statement saying that he was “trying to gaslight society again.”

Mr. Weinstein “says in a new interview he doesn’t want to be forgotten,” the statement added. “Well, he won’t be. He will be remembered as an unrepentant abuser who took everything and deserves nothing.”

In a separate statement on Sunday night, Douglas Wigdor, a lawyer who represents one of the women who will testify at the trial, said that Mr. Weinstein’s interview reflected his “complete failure to accept responsibility.”

“One cannot feel sorry for Mr. Weinstein while he sits perched in an executive private hospital suite and asks New Yorkers to recognize his prior accomplishments, which justifiably have been overshadowed by his horrific actions,” the statement said.

On Monday morning, the actress Rose McGowan — who has sued Mr. Weinstein over what she has called his effort to squelch her accusations that he raped her — posted a tweet attacking the producer’s claims that he had been forgotten. “I didn’t forget you, Harvey,” she wrote. “My body didn’t forget you. I wish it could.”

Mr. Weinstein’s lawyers said that the interview was arranged without their knowledge and that they were unaware of it until it was published.

The interview in The Post was published only days after Mr. Weinstein and the board of his bankrupt studio were said to have reached a tentative $25 million civil settlement agreement with dozens of his accusers. On the same day, a state judge in Manhattan increased Mr. Weinstein’s bail, ordering him to post a $2 million insurance company bond after prosecutors from the Manhattan district attorney’s office complained that he had mishandled his electronic ankle monitor.

Mr. Weinstein has appeared at a handful of recent court hearings looking frail and using first a cane, then a walker. He told The Post that he had agreed to the interview to counter arguments that he had exaggerated his deteriorating physical condition.