Shiri Appleby Quotes

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've worked with so few female directors.

While complex acting roles are lacking for actresses, what's even more rare are female directors.

Women are underrepresented and neglected in all aspects of the entertainment industry, so naturally, those of us who want to make a change use any opportunity to shine a light on someone when we can.

I think that women are underrepresented behind the camera as directors.

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

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?

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

I've never had a problem in a male-dominated sector. Results speak for themselves.

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.

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

Definitely, I feel that there is a need for more female producers, directors, and writers.

Female directors are slightly less vociferous.

I didn't want to set up a women's studies program. I thought women should learn to operate in a coeducational atmosphere, because, especially in national security and international affairs, it's male-dominated.

I'm sure it's more difficult for women to make movies, especially because, in general, the kind of movies women want to make aren't necessarily going to be blockbusters. But you know, there are so few women in so many positions of power.

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 are still so few female directors. There are far fewer writers than we'd like to see.

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

I know if I was a woman I wouldn't want to be a member of an organization that's mostly men.

I guess economists, it's a bit like scientists; you have definitely fewer women in that field.

True gender equality in Scotland - and elsewhere - is still some way off.

When I was in college, my graduation thesis was called 'Female Directors.' I interviewed all of the important female directors from Mexico. There were four. That was it.

When you think about the guys who started Twitter, and the Google guys, and the Facebook guys and the Napster guys, and the Microsoft guys, and the Dell guys and the Instagram guys, it's all guys. The girls, they're being left behind.

We have people say, 'There's not enough women writers.' I have a writers room that is almost nothing but women over at 'Grey's Anatomy.'

I've worked with a lot of female directors over the course of my career: Martha Coolidge, Catherine Hardwicke, Jodie Foster.