When you’re working in a collaborative storytelling medium, every step of the way, you’re opening yourself up. Lesli Linka Glatter Read Quote
My background is in modern dance. I was a dancer and a choreographer before I was a director, and in dance, you can’t cheat. Your leg goes up in the air, or it doesn’t. So when I direct, I’m a big preparer. Lesli Linka Glatter Read Quote
I was born in Dallas, and I grew up both there and in New York City, which was very schizophrenic. Lesli Linka Glatter Read Quote
Demi Moore is an extremely sexy woman. Melanie Griffith, Annette Bening – these are all brave women. They’ve all managed to have kids and still be sexy. If anything, being a mom makes them even sexier. Lesli Linka Glatter Read Quote
We’ve heard the excuses from those responsible for hiring that they don’t want to take a chance on a new director. But the truth is that the industry hires new directors all the time; it’s just that most of them are white males. Lesli Linka Glatter Read Quote
As somebody who has been an executive producer on a television series, I can tell you that increasing director diversity is as simple as hiring more women and more people of color. Lesli Linka Glatter Read Quote
Like any director working today, I started out when somebody took a shot at hiring me. It’s how we all start out – male, female, white or minority. Lesli Linka Glatter Read Quote
I like to really know what every scene is about, what the text is, what the subtext is. Then I figure out how to express that when I’m shooting. Lesli Linka Glatter Read Quote
One of my first episodic jobs was on ‘Twin Peaks,’ if you can imagine that – one of the most unusual series ever. Lesli Linka Glatter Read Quote
