Female Directors Quotes

Maybe at 55, I would like to direct. I will go the Angelina Jolie way.

For me, I am a huge fan of Sofia Coppola and Lynn Shelton. I love Lena Dunham, like everybody else. I love Kathryn Bigelow.

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 think the press is doing a wonderful job of putting the pressure on the decision-makers in Hollywood to support more female directors.

It has to be 'The Piano' by Jane Campion. It inspired me to pursue my dream to direct. It is not just my favorite woman-directed film - it is my favorite film.

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.

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.

In the first two projects I've worked on professionally, I've been doing ensemble work with other young women, which I think is pretty cool. And they both were directed by and written by women. It's been a wonderful experience of real ensemble support and women lifting each other up, and I feel really lucky for that.

Even after such milestones as Kathryn Bigelow winning an Oscar, there still seem to be few women in leadership roles.

Talent has no gender. People are hiring young male directors right out of film school, off of a student film or off of a film at Sundance for millions of dollars. You can do the same with a female. It's not a risk about the work if you respect the film that they made.

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

But it's cool working with female directors because I'm a girl, so you do relate to them more. You can talk to them about other stuff like clothes and all that.

I think the whole movement of #MeToo is not just calling out the sexual harassers, which is really important, but also crying out that we want equal pay, equal representation, equal opportunities, and that we want to see more female directors and photographers.

In my own experience of male and female directors, people have a much, much harder time taking a direct command from a woman. It's somehow very difficult for people.

I would love to be directed by more women.

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.

I've worked with so few female directors.

Female directors are slightly less vociferous.

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

This business is based on numbers, and the numbers show that it's worth investing in female-driven and female-directed films.

I think it's good that we're talking about it, but I think there's still a gendered nature to the way that people see female directors' skill sets. And I think we need to keep examining that. I don't know if people know how complicated the issue really is.

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

I love working with women - I love women - and we need more women directors. We need more feminine sensibilities in movies.

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