Susanna Fogel

I studied English in college and approached filmmaking from a writing background while trying to learn as much as I could about…

— Susanna Fogel

My way of dealing with not really fitting in at my very crappy New England high school and junior high was to…

— Susanna Fogel

I love action movies, and I love comedy, and I love writing comedy, but the genre of action-comedy - or, at least,…

— Susanna Fogel

You can have a lot of destruction, but in a realistic female movie, the women are going to be aware of that…

— Susanna Fogel

Any place where the Jewish district is the hipster district is a very surreal and awesome place.

— Susanna Fogel

As a consumer, I love action movies and have a lot of opinions about how action comedies don't really do justice to…

— Susanna Fogel

Micro humor is a joke that's contained in the writing: it's a punch line, it's a turn of phrase, it's something that…

— Susanna Fogel

If you're a filmmaker who grew up wanting to make a movie for people to have that female experience of sitting in…

— Susanna Fogel

Have confidence in your own voice, be entrepreneurial, and take big risks with the knowledge that, by default of being a woman,…

— Susanna Fogel

As women, I think we're used to looking around to see what people think about this, who's approving of us, who's criticizing…

— Susanna Fogel

The process of working with the second unit director and basically sharing your workload with another director is such an interesting, delicate…

— Susanna Fogel

I want to be someone who takes risks but also stays engaged by trying new things.

— Susanna Fogel

Friendships have been such an important part of my life both emotionally and logistically.

— Susanna Fogel

The older I got, the less pretentious I got in my art tastes and work.

— Susanna Fogel

I try to write from a place of writing what I know, and what I know is interesting and appropriate women with…

— Susanna Fogel

I still feel, when I meet actresses, no matter how high-profile they are, that they are starved for good roles.

— Susanna Fogel

I didn't have a lot of men to ask questions of when I was starting out. There were two female directors people…

— Susanna Fogel

On 'The Spy Who Dumped Me,' it wasn't fear as much as it was feeling overwhelmed because there were so many moving…

— Susanna Fogel

I love watching action films, and especially the little moments of wit and humor in the choreography in a lot of them.…

— Susanna Fogel

Economics drive the creative, and for a long time, movies about men were just considered 'movies,' whereas movies about women were considered…

— Susanna Fogel

Sometimes my friends and I are sill,y and sometimes we're serious, and sometimes we're emotional, and sometimes we're not.

— Susanna Fogel

After my first film, I was having trouble finding a second film. I had a lot of attempts that failed.

— Susanna Fogel

Culturally, as women, we're raised to be very concerned with others' approval in a way that men aren't, but an inevitable part…

— Susanna Fogel

I have to say, my family's always been incredibly open and encouraging of any way I might want to express myself. At…

— Susanna Fogel

So many of my favorite stories, in any medium, are about friendship. Those relationships are so often just as emotional and complex…

— Susanna Fogel