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Directing Marilyn Monroe was like directing Lassie. You needed fourteen takes to get each one of them right.

Directing takes a lot of time.

So I've had really great assistant directors for my last seven movies.

I'm not the kind of actress who asks a lot of questions of my directors unless it's something I really need to know.

I'd maybe done about 12 movies when I decided that this was what I was going to do.

The fact is, you don't know what directing is until the sun is setting and you've got to get five shots and you're only going to get two.

Directing is like meeting a woman. You don't know her, but something strikes you, and then you just have to go into it.

I still don't know much about directing a movie.

And later I thought, I can't think how anyone can become a director without learning the craft of cinematography.

I'd done about 10 movies before I decided I wanted to make acting the main thrust of my career.