Kathleen Kennedy Quotes

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

Should 50 per cent of Telefilm's projects be helmed, produced, or written by women? I think so.

I hope when people see that female-led production companies are working, there will be more of us.

Personally, I feel a strong responsibility to make sure that we have women equally represented in our executive suites and that we employ women in front of and behind the camera and in our writers' rooms.

We need more points of view from women and we need more support for female directors and writers in the industry.

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.

Sporting events like the Olympics have developed and maintained a clear message of promoting gender equality as an essential criterion in the success of any international event.

The world needs more women filmmakers, so we have to keep encouraging ourselves and one another, and eventually things must get easier for us.

We're showing kids a world that is very scantily populated with women and female characters. They should see female characters taking up half the planet, which we do.

I'm a female in comedy, so of course I want there to be more women on 'SNL', and women of color.

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

Four out of five HSN corporate officers are women. I'm a believer that a diversity of mindset enables us to have an engaged conversation.

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

We need women at all levels, including the top, to change the dynamic, reshape the conversation, to make sure women's voices are heard and heeded, not overlooked and ignored.

If this world is going to be a better place for our grandchildren and great-grandchildren, it will be women who make it so.

Employing more women at all levels of a company, from new hires to senior leaders, creates a virtuous cycle. Companies become more attuned to the needs of their female employees, improving workplace culture while lowering attrition.

We are going to hire a woman who's going to direct a 'Star Wars' movie. I have no doubt.

Women's voices need to be in politics, and shaping politics from the very beginning, not serve as an afterthought.

People at agencies and studios, including the parent boards, might look around the table at the decision-making level and feel something is wrong if half their participants are not women. Because our tastes are different, what we value is different. Not better, different.

I wouldn't oppose a women's astronaut training program; I just see no requirement for it.

I think it's absolutely about time that we have as many female leads as male. It's a very exciting time to be an actress.

I don't understand why people still behave as though making movies with female protagonists is risky, given that - hello - we do make up over 50 percent of the population, and we go to movies.

I think the main struggle for women in Hollywood and women in my position is to fight for true representation in the media and accurate representation of our many diverse qualities in stories.

After the #MeToo movement, I told my team to hire as many women as possible. So there are always a lot of women in my team. I talk to them and they read the script and come up with their own suggestions.

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.