It's very hard to be a screenwriter. I remember getting a couple of awards. I got a PEN West award a million years ago when I did Running on Empty, a…

- Naomi Foner Gyllenhaal

I had been at the director's workshop for women at the AFI, which at the time was a great thing to do. I had always meant to direct, and for a variet…

- Naomi Foner Gyllenhaal

Raising a child is the only relationship you have where if you do it right, it will end in separation.

- Naomi Foner Gyllenhaal

For many years I thought, "Well, I need to know a lot more to direct." But I looked around and watched all the people I know directing and thought, "…

- Naomi Foner Gyllenhaal

I am, like everybody else, hurt when the thing I've done is misunderstood or attacked but I've gotten old enough to realize that if you do something,…

- Naomi Foner Gyllenhaal

Time matters less than the nature of the people.

- Naomi Foner Gyllenhaal

There are people who've challenged me on that, but I think there still are. Not everybody looses their virginity when they're 12, there are always th…

- Naomi Foner Gyllenhaal

When I was in high school, it was the beginning of hippies and free love and sleeping with people was a sign of your liberation and your freedom. The…

- Naomi Foner Gyllenhaal

It would have to stand on the basis of what somebody had done to it and that would be the basis on which it would be judged. So it's a funny art form…

- Naomi Foner Gyllenhaal