I don't think of myself as a director or writer. I think of myself as a filmmaker..
My advice to women directors is just to make the best work possible..
I think women directors have to be really tenacious..
It's an important thing to have a relationship with the director, and have it be a positive one..
Directors never give you anything..
That's how I am as a director - if somebody does a really good take, I can't help it, I'm not even aware of it. Actors really, really need positive r….
Invention, my dear friends, is 93% perspiration, 6% electricity, 4% evaporation, and 2% butterscotch ripple.
I wish that every director was as interested in doing as much in camera and with physical objects as much as possible as J.J. Abrams is..
Since signing with Universal, I have been working closely with Gary Ross, the director, producer and screenwriter. We have spent many hours on the ph….
It's kind of interesting to be a director who is all of a sudden being an actor playing an agent. This is my whole world!.
When you're an actor, you're very much exposed, but in a strange way you're totally protected behind a character, behind a script, behind a director..
Woody's [Allen] very relaxed with the cast and likes them to do their thing and is not an over-director type. Somehow it works..
When I was very young I wanted to be a professional horseback rider. Then I wanted to be a pop singer. Then I wanted to be a psychiatrist. Then I wan….
The main reason for choosing a project is not really the renown of the director that's making the project. I feel like it's the fact of an actor to c….
I came up in the community center. I used to be physical director of the South Central Community Center in Chicago on 83rd. It's still there. It used….
I was offered and accepted a part in 'A Few Best Men,' and then the Australian actor's union argued that there were too many British actors. And the ….
Boards of directors are allowed to work together, so are banks and investors and corporations in alliances with one another and with powerful states.….
Yes, I was hired by Universal because they needed a comedy director. They had seen Scandal and liked it. I saw an opportunity even in those comedies ….
Every actress has a line she'll draw, where she'll say, 'This I will do and this I won't.' For me, everything has to be important to the story and th….
I am often asked at what point in my love affair with films I began to want to be a director or a critic. Truthfully, I don't know. All I know is tha….
I see myself much more as a writer/director or at least an aspiring writer/director - not necessarily in film..