The lack of women directors is a sad fact of life. Kathryn Bigelows thrilling Best Director win may help turn things around.

Always remember the famous adage about the movie business: You can't make a living, you can only get rich.

My goal has been to learn how to get movies made without losing sight of the reasons I began. I have had to learn to recognize the insidious nature of the beast without becoming one.

Like the tectonic plate it sits upon, Hollywood is subject to seismic jolts and constant tremors. Each season erupts with a new champion, and every so often a genuine earthquake will tear down the apparently secure infrastructure.

In most fields of endeavor there are no easy jobs; there are only graceful ways of performing difficult ones.

Every single one of us who has been a Woman in Film for more than five minutes is sick of the phrase Women in Film.

My sense of Los Angeles was very New York provincial, as in 'all those people are crazy out there' (which they are), and stupid (which they're not), and immoral (it's more interesting than that).