First-time Quotes

People wonder why first-time directors can make a brilliant picture, then suck on the second one. It's because they're a little terrified the first time. So they listen to all the experts around them.

I have worked with another first-time director who was not that open, and it was probably one of the worst experiences I ever had, so my antennas are really out.

Does any new parent, even if you're not a first-time parent, ever really know what to do?

I've had really great experiences working with first-time directors. They come at filmmaking with fresh ideas. I've been very lucky that way.

As a first-time director in America, I feel I've been very fortunate.

So I feel a responsibility to help first-time film-makers in Brazil, but also to increase the dialogue between film cultures which are really wonderful and so much closer to us than what we do see on our screens.

I think I'm going to spend some time learning how to be a first-time mom, and then I'll go back to work.

I still can't quite believe it. Although there was something about the fact that it was a first-time writer, a first-time producer, and a first-time director all at the same time.