- Richard Shepard is an Emmy and DGA award winning writer/director. His features include "The Perfection" "Dom Hemingway" and "The Matador". He directed 12 episodes of the Golden Globe winning HBO series "Girls", along with pilots for "Zoey's Extraordinary Playlist", "Acapulco", Criminal Minds" and "Ugly Betty" for which he won the 2007 Emmy. He also directed the documentary, "I Knew It Was You: Rediscovering John Cazale".- IMDb Mini Biography By: Richard Shepard
- Attended NYU's film school but did not graduate because he failed his required science class.
- Attended NYU with actress Maura Tierney, with whom he remains close friends.
- Richard Shepard directed the action thriller Tough Luck in 2002 but took his name off the project during editing for constant disagreements he had with the producers Brian and Josh Etting. The director listed on the credits of Tough Luck never stepped one foot on the movie set. Richard Shepard is a total professional and a highly talented director.
- Getting any movie made is a miracle. It's so hard. Clearly I would love more money, but control -- which you normally don't have when it's a bigger movie -- is more important to me.
- Okay let's do one more take for Lloyds of London.
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