Your job as a director is to study the show, understand the show, understand the vibe, the tone, the characters. Miriam Shor Read Quote
Certainly my parents were very political, so the whole Berlin Wall thing – and being a kid of the ’80s – that’s just something that’s in your experience. Miriam Shor Read Quote
I used to go and hang out at Patricia Field’s store when it was on 8th street before it moved downtown. Amanda Lepore would be there, and I would be obsessed with the shoes and the make-up – everything. I just knew it was a creative place that I wanted to be around. Miriam Shor Read Quote
The idea that you won’t have a job is a real fear that people go through, so when people talk about jobs and say, ‘I’m gonna create jobs!’ or, ‘There’s gonna be a loss of jobs,’ those are just words. But the reality of someone actually losing their job – I mean, it’s their entire life for most people in this country. Miriam Shor Read Quote
If it’s truly a passion, and it’s truly something you believe in, then you need to do it. Miriam Shor Read Quote
In Hollywood, way too often, the goal for actresses is to get cast in roles as the wife or the mother or a relationship that somehow orbits around the man, whereas ‘Sex And The City’ had these characters where the women had their own independent stories. Miriam Shor Read Quote
When I gave a direction to an actor in the show, I know their whole journey better than a guest director could know it. Miriam Shor Read Quote
I always like to hang out with whoever’s directing and watch what they do. I hang out at Video Village, the area where the directors and the writers and script advisors are. Miriam Shor Read Quote
My very first show that I ever did was a show called ‘Then Came You’. It became a huge hit – no, it didn’t. But it was a sitcom with some great people involved, and the story was about an older woman and a younger guy. I was the older woman’s best friend. I was 27 years old. Miriam Shor Read Quote
I remember auditioning for something where the woman was supposed to be 42, and I was 33 or something, and they were like, ‘No women over 35 can audition.’ That was in the breakdown. I don’t think they would do that anymore – I would like to hope that they wouldn’t put that in writing – but it’s mind-boggling. Miriam Shor Read Quote
