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I often meet young directors who, you know, had a 'Ghostbusters' picture on their wall as they were growing up. And it's really nice. It just shows how inter-generational our industry is.

Sometimes the director will want you to write about the character, sometimes he'll want you to live in the location that the character is from or something like that, but I don't usually make a lot of notes or anything like that.

I think actors do make really, really wonderful directors.

There are people who expect me to look the way I do on-screen, where I have a great director of photography and fantastic lighting. I'm sorry to disappoint people, but I don't look like that all the time - no actress does.

I trust work, directors - I don't live in fear. All good experiences have come from trusting the universe. There is no other way to live or love. Otherwise, you create your own prison.

American commercial cinema has long been dominated by men, but I don’t think there has ever been another time when women have been as underrepresented on screen as they are now. The biggest problem isn’t genuinely independent cinema, where lower budgets mean more opportunities for women in front of and behind the camera. The problem is the six major studios that dominate the box office, the entertainment chatter and the popular imagination. Their refusal to hire more female directors is immoral, maybe illegal, and has helped create and sustain a representational ghetto for women.

When you're a freelance director, you are hired to create the art, and it kind of stops there.

My generation of director has no illusions that we are going to be fed and cared for by subsidized theater in America.

As a director, I never feel that I have the answers.

Writers, Composers, Painters, - also artists like directors and actors fall into the same category. They have to be handled with kid gloves, mentally and physically

You can't fix a bad script after you start shooting. The problems on the page only get bigger as they move to the big screen.

Let the child be the scriptwriter, the director and the actor in his own play.

Tragedy is a close-up; comedy, a long shot.

Without dreams, there can be no courage. And without courage, there can be no action.

Feeling unsure and lost is part of your path. Don't avoid it. See what those feelings are showing you and use it.

There are definitely reasons to do certain things, but I like to stick to good director, good actor, good script.

Actors rarely stay in touch with directors after they've filmed together. We go back to real life.

The director is the channel through which a motion picture reaches the screen.

You need contrast and conflict in order to tell a story. Stories need to have dark and light, turmoil, all those things. But that does not mean the filmmaker has to suffer in order to show the suffering. Stories should have the suffering, not the people.

With Alien, because we always use a different director, each one kind of stands on its own. So I guess it's possible for them to make another one, but we have no plans.

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!