Director Hiring Quotes

The system is not really particularly amenable to filmmakers who write and direct their own work. It's much more about the studio already having a property that has a marketable concept and then hiring the director on board.

We've heard the excuses from those responsible for hiring that they don't want to take a chance on a new director. But the truth is that the industry hires new directors all the time; it's just that most of them are white males.

To anyone in the position to hire women directors: Make the commitment.

In feature films, unless there was a body count, they weren't hiring me to direct it.

When you hire directors, you're most concerned about whether or not someone from the outside will get the jokes.

I don't choose my directors, but I choose my scripts wisely.

It's important to push the agenda of hiring women directors.

I have always firmly believed that every director should be judged solely by their work, and not by their work based on their gender. Hollywood is supposedly a community of forward thinking and progressive people yet this horrific situation for women directors persists. Gender discrimination stigmatizes our entire industry. Change is essential. Gender neutral hiring is essential.