I'm not really a full-time director, I just like to direct the things that I write because I think I'm going to know it better than someone else..
Women are making strides in many areas and women have mentored and supported me along the way. I think that women are underrepresented behind the cam….
I find it kind of weird that directors want to put themselves in their films..
There is no point in having sharp images when you've fuzzy ideas..
An Ingmar Bergman film would probably owe a sizeable bulk of its import and its direction and its quality to the directorial end and to the director ….
Every time I act in something, I learn something about what the director is doing. One feeds the other..
I don't need to work right away. I'd rather wait for something really good; to be excited about a role, or a director, or a project..
Now at my age I understand how sad it must have been for some directors or actors at the time the talkies began. Because, really, a whole continent d….
A director should cast a person who fits into their script..
You're in the business - when you're a writer, producer, director - to get ratings..
I always choose my movie because of a director and a story and a, a character..
Sometimes I'll go for something more because of the story, or more because of the director. But, generally, I have to feel like it's something that I….
It's strange - some directors are really talented but they can be so precious when it comes to letting you be a part of it..
I'm not one of these directors, so far, that wants to have a whole separate director's cut of these things. So far they've turned out to be kind of t….
I'm not sure that I'm really relevant as a director anymore. Or as a writer, either, to tell you the truth..
At best, I think of a director as a magnet. You get all the metal fillings in all the individual actors and crew, and get those filings moving toward….
Now I'm kind of established as a director, I much prefer directing to writing..
So many directors are solely focused on their own success in Hollywood and multimillion dollar budgets and deals..
I think that the process of trying to become somebody else, and obviously the director/actor relationship in trying to do that, is such a weird, unde….
As a producer, I probably am a little stronger than most, since I was a director originally..
If I feel the part is right, and I know that the producers and the director want me, I'd go for broke. Always..