Farhan Akhtar Quotes

There should be more women directing; I think there's just not the awareness that it's really possible.

I don't understand why there aren't more powerful female directors. I don't have the answers, but I hope that things may start to shift and that studios will employ more women to handle strong and interesting material.

I would love to be directed by more women.

I think it will be great if we have more female directors in the world.

I've just seen that there is a really amazing perspective that we're missing by not having more women directing.

The lack of women directors is a sad fact of life. Kathryn Bigelow's thrilling Best Director win may help turn things around.

As we have more women in power, so the plays and the TV dramas are reflecting what's happening.

I know how gratifying it is not only to work in film but to be acknowledged by peers; producing '9 to 5' was an opportunity that I valued precisely because it's so rarely in the hands of women.

I'm definitely looking forward to doing a film one day with more female actors.

We've got to get women to sit at the table.

With more women in power, the world would be better off.

There are woefully few women CEOs in the world, but there can be lots of them in films.

I want to support other women because of the opportunities I've had - and I've had a lot of opportunities. What I try as a female director is to do the best job I can and, in the meantime, bring attention to as many other female directors and writers as I can.

Back in the day when I was on The WB, I may have only had one or two female directors throughout the entire run of a series.

You just sort of get used to being one of the only women on set, so it's really refreshing to start to enter a time when that's not the case anymore.

We don't see enough women in the boardroom.

There are a lot of women - directors, producers, writers - involved in my career. They are all interested in telling good stories, and good stories involve men and women.

That's something I've been conscious of and want to make true in all jobs I do. It's important we have women at the front and centre.

When people say, 'There aren't enough women on panel shows,' the answer is to make the host a woman.

Women in Film and Television is such an important body.

I think it would be great to have more female directors making huge-budget movies.

I am a big fan of seeing more women in public life.

It is really a sad state of affairs if I am still the only commercially successful woman director. We need a lot more commercially viable women, not only in direction.

I am proud that a majority of my law clerks have been women.

I think mainly it's an optics thing: to be able to visualize a woman in a position of power. It's going to be wonderful for all of us in every field.