My first time nude was with a woman director, so I thought…

“The statue was of a nude woman playing a slide trombone. It was entitles, enigmatically, Evelyn and Her Magic Violin.”

— Kurt Vonnegut Jr

“She turned the next several pages and found a black-ink drawing on a slip of typing paper, a nude woman holding a round fruit…

— Allegra Goodman

There are still people who have an issue working with a woman director. Women can be viewed as 'difficult' even though they work in…

— Lucy Walker

For a while, I thought, maybe I should direct, until I got to New York and saw the stupidity of that idea. If it's…

— Linda Hunt

When you look at a movie, you look at a director's thought process.

— Oliver Stone

I didn't know you had to do so much to be a director. I thought, 'I can do it. I can write a treatment.'…

— Shavo Odadjian

When I read it and I realized that Michael Landon, Jr. was the director of it, I thought...this could work out well. This is…

— Drew Waters

I had become a film director because I thought I could express something in an artful way.

— Paul Verhoeven

Ultimately, a director is a storyteller. I wanted to fortify that part of my life as a director, so I thought the best way…

— Fred Savage

I remember in the Carpenter version, you got acquainted with the characters and really knew them. It was a real character piece. Each actor…

— Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje

I didn't act in college, per se, because I didn't want an acting degree. I don't know what you do with that degree. When…

— Mehcad Brooks

I learned so much about being an actor by being a director. More than I ever thought I would.

— Chris Lowell

I believe in doing a nude scene only when I trust the director.

— Sarita Choudhury

There was a time when I first started that there was such a thing called 'a woman's film' and there were certain scripts that…

— Gurinder Chadha

There was an interesting article in Los Angeles Magazine about women directors. A woman director makes one bad independent film and her career is…

— Dick Wolf