Lesli Linka Glatter Quotes

We've heard the excuses from those responsible for hiring that they don't want to take a chance on a new director. But the truth is that the industry hires new directors all the time; it's just that most of them are white males.

We often hear of a male director directing a great indie and immediately being offered the next huge comic book movie. Rarely, if ever, does this happen to a woman.

As somebody who has been an executive producer on a television series, I can tell you that increasing director diversity is as simple as hiring more women and more people of color.

Every creator sets up their world differently. That's what's so amazing about someone like Aaron Sorkin and his writing.

I was born in Dallas, and I grew up both there and in New York City, which was very schizophrenic.

To anyone in the position to hire women directors: Make the commitment.

On various shows, I've been the producing-director, the executive producer-director; and if you were working with the material you love with the right group of people, it's an incredible job to be doing.

One of my first episodic jobs was on 'Twin Peaks,' if you can imagine that - one of the most unusual series ever.

Trust the material; trust the story that you're telling.

I like to really know what every scene is about, what the text is, what the subtext is. Then I figure out how to express that when I'm shooting.

America had the message of freedom and democracy, but we haven't actually shown that to be what we do in the world. So I think that's a terrifying thing.

Like any director working today, I started out when somebody took a shot at hiring me. It's how we all start out - male, female, white or minority.