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If you're a director, your entire livelihood and your entire creativity is based on your self-confidence. Sometimes that's dangerously close to arrogance.

You have a right to your opinion about the work that you're doing. An artist is as equally important as the director. If you believe that, you can work in any circumstances.

It's very rare that you get a director that lets you be creative and bring what you feel your character should do or should be.

Being a director is almost like being another sort of character, but you're out of view.

I realize I am contradictory: I have an independent filmmaker's sensibility and a Hollywood director's short-attention span.

As a director, I get to have a much broader creative expression than as an actress.

I think I am a writer, but professionally I feel drawn to and suited for directing.

The most nurturing of directors can make you feel too comfortable, and you don't really push for that extra whatever.

When you work with directors who really love actors, who love their contribution, it feels amazing. But sometimes when you work with directors, you feel like you're in the way.

There's a lot of directors who were actors, so they have the sensibility of an actor, which sometimes helps.