Jodie Whittaker Quotes

Disney has proved without a shadow of a doubt that movies with a female lead work.

I'd love to work on a real girl piece with some fabulous actresses. I feel like I've worked with so many men.

Some of the best roles are for women in these independent, smaller movies.

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

I love women. I've always cared about making movies about women my entire career.

I want there to be tons and tons and tons and tons of movies starring women.

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.

One of the things I think I can do in my lifetime is stop to remind myself that - and keep affirming that - women can sell movies.

With films like 'NH-10' and 'Phillauri,' what Anushka Sharma is doing, or what Shraddha Kapoor and Vidya Balan are doing with their films, the industry is changing for women.

The number of female-lead action films is definitely growing, which is great.

I wish that there were more female driven films, female-centric films being made.

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.

Sometimes I take a movie selfishly because it's a female lead.

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 only want to write books and movies about women.

There are a lot more female writers wanting to direct their own material and hopefully will be given the opportunity.

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

I think women can tell the most profound and interesting and fascinating stories.

There are so many actresses I want to write for. I see them, and I think, 'Why is she not playing that lead? What's happened to that actress?' I think all I can do is to write parts for women, to say, 'Keep going, keep acting, because there are parts for you. There will be those plays.'

Audiences want to watch heroine-oriented films, and even writers are writing scripts for women. I am very happy to see this change.

I really am enjoying the fact that I feel like women are having more and more say in Hollywood, in television particular.

Women-centric films are being made, and they are doing well.

I am very keen to do a film that's female-led.

'To the Bone' is autobiographical. It's written and directed by a woman; it's starring all women, apart from me and Keanu, who are in lesser parts, and it's produced by women.

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.