Diane Keaton.

When I First Got to Know Woody and I Was Going Out with Him, I Noticed That People Never Wanted to Hear Anything That I Had to Say at All. They Just Wanted to Be in the Shadow of His Light and I Remember Really Having a Hard Time with That.

I Would Audition for the Talent Show When I Was in Junior High School, and I Was Going to Sing All I Want for Christmas Is My Two Front Teeth. but It Was My Mother’s Idea That I Black Out My Teeth at the Tryout, and That of Course Secured My Position on the List of People Who Would Be in the Talent Show.

When I Was Little, We’d Get in the Station Wagon and Go All Over California. Childhood Memories Can Really Dominate Your Life.

Don’t Give up on Yourself. so You Make a Mistake Here and There; You Do Too Much or You Do Too Little. Just Have Fun. Smile. and Keep Putting on Lipstick.

I Don’t Think That Because I’m Not Married It’s Made My Life Any Less. That Old Maid Myth Is Garbage.

When I Find Myself in the Absurd Position of Sitting in the Director’s Chair, I Try to Sit Quietly. I Try to Leave the Actors Alone as Much as Possible. I Try Not to Burden the Atmosphere with a Lot of Talk. Talk Is Cheap. as Shirley Chisholm Said, ‘I Am Not Interested in What People Say. What I Am Interested in Is What They Do.’ Sometimes Language Is Used by Both Actors and Directors to Evade the Moment of Truth: Action. the Use of Language to Avoid Acting Is Further Complicated by the Maze of Lies We Don’t Identify as Lies, Hiding Our Secret Fears and Insecurities. to Me, Endless Self Involved Talk Kills Impulse. I Like to Think That as a Director I Create an Atmosphere of Trust And, Most Important, Play, in Order to Ease Actors into the Scary Plunge of Acting.

I’m Not a Natural Born Director. Now That I’m Actually Doing It, I Wonder Why Everybody Wants to in the First Place. You Have to Think of Everything.

For a While You Think, ‘Oh, You Have to Have Someone in Your Life to Be Fulfilled.’ Now I Don’t Feel That Way for a Second.

I Didn’t Know My Dad Nearly as Well as I Know My Mother. However, I Felt a Tremendous Closeness to Him Regarding Performing. My Father Was Extraordinary, Like a Light, When He Would Come Backstage. I Had His Attention In, Yeah, Oh Boy, a Big Way. I’ll Never Forget the First Time This Is so Stupid. I Did ‘Little Mary Sunshine’ in High School. My Father Was Radiant. I Was Shocked. I Didn’t Know What I Had Done That Made Him so Excited.

Believe My Job as the Director Is to Listen, to Laugh, to Empathize, to Encourage and to Be Deeply Moved by What I Hope Will Be Deeply Moving Performances. My Job Is to Know When the Actors Are Telling the Truth, Feeling the Truth, Living the Truth Their Truth. My Job Is to Make It Clear How Much I Am Rooting for Them in Their Effort to Find a Way, a Process, a Skill, That Unlocks and Frees Them into Giving the Audience All Their Accumulated Experiences and Insights and Feelings in the Service of the Screenplay.

Actresses Are Constantly Trying to Please Everyone, or at Least I Am. but I Don’t Think Plastic Surgery Solves Your Problem. I Was Definitely Not Going to Have Sex Before I Got Married and That Went Out the Window! so Who Knows?