Quotes about "Retirement & Later Life"

I was always cutting dialogue out when we were rehearsing, and when I produced movies, too. I felt that people don't say things in life - they act, they do things. I always wanted my characters doing, rather than saying what they were doing - which was redundant. ”

When I first walked into 54 Below, I had this kind of deja vu experience and tried to imagine what this was like back in the day when I would come here at night after doing 'A Chorus Line.' ”

The two most painful things in my life are arthritis and divorce. ”

What I miss about the theater is the live experience. ”

I love music. But I've never owned a TV in my adult life, and I've never lived in a place with a television. ”

In my own experience, when we have an open directing assignment of any kind, not just the big films, I would say it is the exception, not the rule, that there is a woman in the group of directors that we are interviewing. I think that's from the pool being so small. ”

We live in a big world. We are citizens of the world, and we make movies for everybody around the world. I think it's very important to understand what people's life experiences, good and bad, are. ”

Real power is having the ability and the resources to tell an amazing story or to say 'yes' to a filmmaker and change not only the filmmaker's life but the world. ”

I think I was a nomad in another life. ”

Everything in life... has to have balance. ”