Melanie Mayron Quotes

I directed some movies in the past, and I'd still love to do that. You know, the whole thing is a labor of love, I think.

The entire Mayron's Good Baby natural skin care line is free from synthetic fragrances, paraben, sodium lauryl sulfate, and DEA. It was a wonderful experience to work with my father on the creation of these natural products.

The women executives in the film industry have the power to say, 'No,' but few of them have the power to say, 'Yes.'

With episodic, kind of one-hour directing, they always have guest directors come in, so they don't have the same person week after week. You get a break.

If a guy works, and he has children, it's good, and he doesn't feel the same guilt about not being there for the children as a woman would. With a woman, there's that pull: 'Oh, I should be home,' when she's at work, and 'Oh, I should be at work,' when she's at home.

When 'Ally McBeal' started, I went, 'Oh, my God.' It's like what I was doing. 'Bridget Jones' was in the same vein. I identify with all of them.

I don't think families can earn enough money with one wage-earner any more. I also think there are a lot of men who don't want to bust their butts and do that kind of work. They want to stay home with the kids, but guys who do want to do that aren't looked up to as the masculine kind of guy, and that's a shame.

You are what you drive in L.A.

I'm an actor. I'm hired to play whatever it is they want me to play - if I'm lucky enough to be cast for the part - which seems to take a lot of luck these days.

As a producer and director, I've tried for years to get properties off the ground for girls, and I've been hitting a brick wall.

The Screen Actors Guild numbers are frightening: Something like 90 percent of the roles are for men, 5 percent are for livestock and 5 percent are for women.

When I was a teenager, I loved photography and writing.