For many years I thought, "Well, I need to know a lot more to direct." But I looked around and watched all the people I know directing and thought, "No. I just need to know what I want it to… — Naomi Foner Gyllenhaal Copy Share Image
It's very hard to be a screenwriter. I remember getting a couple of awards. I got a PEN West award a million years ago when I did Running on Empty, and I sat in the room with all these writers.… — Naomi Foner Gyllenhaal Copy Share Image
For many years I thought, "Well, I need to know a lot more to direct." But I looked around and watched all the people… — Naomi Foner Gyllenhaal Copy Share Image
Raising a child is the only relationship you have where if you do it right, it will end in separation. — Naomi Foner Gyllenhaal Copy Share Image
I had been at the director's workshop for women at the AFI, which at the time was a great thing to do. I had… — Naomi Foner Gyllenhaal Copy Share Image
It would have to stand on the basis of what somebody had done to it and that would be the basis on which it… — Naomi Foner Gyllenhaal Copy Share Image
I am, like everybody else, hurt when the thing I've done is misunderstood or attacked but I've gotten old enough to realize that if… — Naomi Foner Gyllenhaal Copy Share Image
It's very hard to be a screenwriter. I remember getting a couple of awards. I got a PEN West award a million years ago… — Naomi Foner Gyllenhaal Copy Share Image
There are people who've challenged me on that, but I think there still are. Not everybody looses their virginity when they're 12, there are… — Naomi Foner Gyllenhaal Copy Share Image
When I was in high school, it was the beginning of hippies and free love and sleeping with people was a sign of your… — Naomi Foner Gyllenhaal Copy Share Image
![“When I was in high school, it was the beginning of hippies and free love and sleeping with people was a sign of your liberation and your freedom. Then we [had to worry about] AIDS, so they started lecturing my kids in elementary school about safe sex. Sex turned from something joyful into…” quote by Naomi Foner Gyllenhaal](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/e9b/naomi-foner-gyllenhaal-45297_aids_when-i-was-in-high-school-it-was-the-beg_3115277.jpg)