"I came of age for film, at a time when the sexism was pretty strong. And although I could get work as a Writer, I cou…"

"My own experience with my films has been that the more I’m left alone, the better I do. It isn’t that I think I’m sma…"

"I don’t think too many people had what I had, a husband who believed in me and who wanted to help me. (discussing the…"

"So many directors that I admire do things in two takes, like Lumet, and then there are directors like Arthur Penn, wh…"

"I really love being the person who in the end gets to make the decisions and have it become the way you want it to be…"

"It's a human truth that romantic fantasies are very hard to let go of and while it would be very nice to say Izzy, ob…"

"Abstract notions of feminism never interested Joan; specific women and their stories did. Yet without setting out to …"

"The pathbreaking movie director Joan Micklin Silver got to have a career that almost no woman was allowed to have, an…"

"Hollywood, of course, expected women to be collaborative, but had no intention of rewarding them for it. So she staye…"

"We were so young and had never produced anything, and Joan was infinitely patient and remarkably assured on the set. …"