My style advice to other girls is to be experimental but always have a 'home base' and stick with your comfort style.
I really do believe that if you don't challenge yourself and risk failing, that it's not interesting.
I love directing Shakespeare on film. It's fantastic that the actors would do exactly the same thing and be true to their part.
We're really having a problem right now in our culture. I haven't seen one movie lately in which the story and visuals have been equally good.
I believe that if you really have a strong idea, you can say, "What do you think? Let's see how my idea plays off yours. "
When I'm working as a director, I might have an idea of my own but I'm also trying to get great ideas out of my actors. Directing is much more psychological - it's a lot like being a general. And you have to be organized. While you're making a film, you have between 2 and 500 people asking you a billion questions.
Because my parents had given me tremendous respect, trust, and freedom as a child, I knew how to take responsibility for myself. If you're constantly being told "No, don't do that" or "We don't trust you," you can't develop that responsibility.
Many writers, especially male ones, have told us that it is the decease of the father which opens the prospect of one's own end, and affords an unobstructed view of the undug but awaiting grave that says 'you're next. ' Unfilial as this may seem, that was not at all so in my own case. It was only when I watched Alexander [my own son] being born that I knew at once that my own funeral director had very suddenly, but quite unmistakably, stepped onto the stage. I was surprised by how calmly I took this, but also by how reluctant I was to mention it to my male contemporaries.
I'm drawn to look tough. The arched eyebrows are just there - I don't do them like that. I have strong features, but I wish I could be tougher.
I believe in working harder and putting in the time - being completely obsessed. And, yeah, I think that's life.
Underestimating one's enemy was a classic tactical mistake --- one that was usually born out of stupidity or arrogance or both. (Harry Smith)