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It never crossed my mind to be a director, and I'll tell you why: because I'm a woman. It just didn't occur to me, but I knew I had to be in film.

The great thing about women directors is that they're not only involved in the performances - they can gauge where we all are personally and know how to direct us better because of that.

Male directors always project their own desire of women - how they want a woman to dress, to do her hair. With a woman director, it's more a projection of herself.

For me, a director is a director immaterial of the gender. At the end of the day, the audience is only interested in watching a good film.

There are still so few female directors. There are far fewer writers than we'd like to see.

The relationship between an actor and a director is like a love story between a man and a woman. I'm sure sometimes I'm the woman.

I suppose they call me a woman's director because there were all these movie queens in the old days, and I directed most of them. But I also directed Jack Barrymore and Ronald Colman and James Stewart, to name a few.

Maybe I'm too masculine. Casting directors cast in their own, or an idealized image. Maybe I don't look like anybody's ideal.

I've always been slightly hesitant about generalizing movies made by men and women being different in their nature; I think movies by each director are different. Having said that, I think that it's kind of disgraceful that there aren't more female directors.

There are a lot of women screenwriters, but they are obviously outnumbered by men. And it still is a very much male-dominated industry.