Olivia Wilde Quotes

I've always been slightly hesitant about generalizing movies made by men and women being different in their nature; I think movies by each director are different. Having said that, I think that it's kind of disgraceful that there aren't more female directors.

There has never been a female director who has won an Oscar. There has only been one woman who won at the Cannes Film Festival.

Some of my favorite auditions have been with female directors.

I was lucky to work with Gamechanger Films, who are a consortium of investors financing films directed by women. This is a company that puts their money where their mouth is.

Sundance is the only hand that feeds for women directors.

The question I always ask is: 'Where are all the women directors in America?' You know, where's the female Martin Scorsese, the female David Lynch?

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'm really excited that 'The Other Woman' did so well at the box office, and I hope that will keep encouraging people to make movies about women, starring women, about female friendships. More. Please.

I would love to be directed by more women.

I've worked with so few female directors.

I'm not saying I only want to work with female directors. But I want to continue to work with emerging female directors.

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

There's so many more female directors than when I started. That's encouraging.

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

By and large, I think female directors are far more sensitive.

People should start appreciating films where women are at the centre.

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.

I do all these panels where people are always talking about the lack of female directors, and I have a lot of opinions on that.

I think that women are uniquely suited to the job of directing, and I've seen it firsthand.

When I stepped into the Lifetime role in 2010, I did a listening tour of what was going on for women in this country. There was such a parallel in Hollywood with women talking about how there are stories that are not getting made and that talented young women are not getting the opportunity to direct and write.

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 like women in film. I like women in general, but I especially like to show them on film. They are not ciphers.

I just don't think there's a lot of support for the woman's voice in cinema, and it becomes really difficult to raise that money and start again every time.

It felt amazing to be one of a handful working female directors in Hollywood.

I can say I love working with women. Film is a man's world, and I really appreciate the opportunity to collaborate with women, especially young women.