We always want to congratulate ourselves at having made more progress than we actually have. Nina Jacobson Read Quote
Ultimately, mentorship plays such a big role in breaking directors that successful male directors tend to reach the helping hand to guys who remind them of themselves. We need more women directors so they can reach out to girls who remind them of themselves. Nina Jacobson Read Quote
There is a variety of different kind of producers. I’m a very hands-on, creative producer. I find material that I think would make a good movie or TV show, find the right financier/studio/network, hire a writer, get a good script, find a director, and collaborate with him/her to cast the movie and hire department heads. Nina Jacobson Read Quote
Sometimes I work in my office, just reading material, meeting writers, working on scripts. Other times, I’m on location. There’s a lot of variety. Nina Jacobson Read Quote
As a studio executive, I took the approach that people are competent until proven otherwise. But when you make a movie, because there is so little time to fix things when they break, you have to almost come to it with the mindset that everyone is incompetent until proven otherwise. Nina Jacobson Read Quote
When I became a producer, I told myself I will finally be able to bring my dog to work. Nina Jacobson Read Quote
Television is often out ahead on social issues. With film, we’ve only recently proved that one of the oldest misconceptions in the book is wrong, which is the idea that girls will see films with boys as protagonists, but boys won’t see movies with girls as protagonists. Nina Jacobson Read Quote
The reality is that diversity as an overall subject has to continue to be addressed onscreen. That goes beyond having a gay superhero. There should be a black superhero, a Latino superhero and, while we’re at it, we still aren’t seeing nearly enough women behind the scenes and as the anchors of movies. Nina Jacobson Read Quote
We owe it to the audience to put more characters onscreen that reflect them and that speak to issues of race and gender as well as to a character’s sexual preference. Nina Jacobson Read Quote
