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I so related to John Hughes movies.
Movies require a minor miracle to get made.
I love human beings, and I love their faces.
I like working in TV, but my real love is making movies.
I just think good actors are the main reason to make movies.
I'm a director... I don't wear any makeup, and wear jeans every day.
As women we are very accustomed to putting ourselves in the shoes of male leads.
The more women directors that get hired, the more practices will shift, top down.
Molly Ringwald's characters always had a complex personal life, and I appreciated that.
Nobody criticized the characters in 'The Godfather' for being bad examples of how to be men.
I'm not the type of person who can be a director for hire, I have to find my own way into it.
I do think there's a weird stigma where people probably think that female directors are a risk.
I was one of those probably annoying little kids who was always putting on plays with my family.
I just have no interest in making a biopic. No offence to biopics, it's just not where my mind goes.
A lot of us love seeing characters on screen who say and do things we would never dare in real life.
I come from theater and captured theater has a bad rap of being never what the live performance was.
I guess I always view movies as, in their best form, connecting us more to each other and to humanity.
One of the boring tricks about capturing Broadway onscreen, actually, is just about all the different unions.
You want to make movies about extraordinary people, but those extraordinary people have to have a huge journey.
Our culture of the Bay Area is a place where you want to be different. You want to be seen. You want to be heard.
I love movies where the explosions and fireworks are happening inside someone's heart and mind instead of outside.
I don't think we have to be jerks to make good art either, but somehow we as a society have romanticised that idea.
I was connected to the theater, it was my first love, where my career was focused, on interesting ways to tell stories.
I was really serious about being an actress. I was playing young female characters and not feeling very connected to them.
I haven't acted in 10 years. I always talk about being an actor, and yet I've been focusing on making movies for a long time.
Being a good actor is incredibly difficult. But the amount of responsibility is so much less on your shoulders than directing.
My normal way of filming something is, like, one camera, very well planned out, knowing exactly how we're going to get each shot.
A lot of us as adults haven't learned how to cope with our feelings, deal with our anger or work through the pain of our childhoods.
I have a hard time with films that I feel like I can predict every twist or turn they take from the moment I start reading the script.
And he doesn't really - it's never awkward when you're talking to Tom Hanks. I've never seen him have an awkward conversation with anybody.
What Mr Rogers was offering to children were lessons we all need in our world right now: patience, kindness, acceptance and true self-reflection.
Sometimes we need pure relief. Sometimes we need pure escapism. Sometimes we need major reflection on some aspects of our collective unconscious.
Writing, directing - it's just torture every time and it doesn't seem to get any easier. And yet I love them and I'm not going to stop doing them.
I'm the oldest of three kids and I remember my brother and sister still watching Mr Rogers while I felt too big and too sophisticated to watch it.
Somehow I had a lot of the skills that I didn't know were required for directing. I didn't realize that my life had been leading in that direction.
I don't really believe that all theater needs to be filmed - for some things, the special part of live theater is that it exists and then it's gone.
Seeing yourself reflected on screen is a very important part of being human. It makes us feel less alone, it make us feel more connected to humanity.
I hate the narrative that people have to be tortured in order to be good artists. I think it's a solipsistic view that people use in order to be selfish.
Just make things, and find people you love working with. If you're working on something you truly love and are passionate about, you will do your best work.
I know I dressed way too provocatively when I look back. I was in that weird phase of feeling suddenly like my body was a woman's body and not a kid's body.
Historically, we've attached a lot of shame to women and their bodies - probably since biblical times. It's a way that patriarchal societies have perpetuated.
For the same reason I want to make movies about women, I also want to make movies that help men be better men and that can be an antidote to toxic masculinity.
I spent most of my 20s working as an actor. I started writing and directing because I was frustrated with the types of roles that were available to young women.
Someone once shared a statistic with me about how long it takes women to make their second films. On average, it's three years for men and eight years for women.
My advice for anyone wanting to direct is that nobody is going to hand you an opportunity. You have to create your own opportunities and not take no for an answer.
Things like pornography perpetuates this idea that women are just there as objects of male desire and are not complex people with their own sexuality and humanity.
Why do so many women drop out of the workforce at this age, in our late 30s, early 40s? Well, often it's because we're raising kids, so, let's be honest about that.
I think that instead of laying out ahead of time where my career is going to go, I try to make decisions that feel like they're the best steps for me in that moment.
I had a great family. Nobody ever told me that I should stop raising my hand in class or that I should become - as a girl, that I should somehow become less confident.
Every actor is different, but it's a very fine line when it comes to how much information they have versus how much they need to let their imagination fill in the blanks.