Allison Anders Quotes

I wrote 'Thelma & Louise' in 1988, and we shot it in 1990. Everyone kept saying, 'This is so groundbreaking... this is going to change the landscape,' but I don't see that result at all. When we saw some female studio executives, we were hopeful that more women would be hired as directors, but that didn't really seem to happen.

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

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 would love to be directed by more women.

We definitely have to support other female directors because there's not enough of us.

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

I want more girls to be able to see themselves behind the camera creating images we all enjoy, and I want to call attention to the fact that women directors are here all over the world.

I want to support other women because of the opportunities I've had - and I've had a lot of opportunities. What I try as a female director is to do the best job I can and, in the meantime, bring attention to as many other female directors and writers as I can.

I want to see some scripts written by women and projects being directed by women.

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

I didn't have a lot of men to ask questions of when I was starting out. There were two female directors people suggested I talk to when I was starting out, and they were Nancy Meyers and Kathryn Bigelow.

People would ask for my autograph because they had never seen a woman behind the camera before.

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

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.

We need more points of view from women and we need more support for female directors and writers in the industry.

There are obviously issues in our industry. That starts at the top with studio execs who - not just men - don't believe a woman could handle a huge franchise or big action movie.

I think female-centric films shouldn't be only about thriller or horror. Angelina Jolie has been doing all kinds of stuff.

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.

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

We need better and stronger roles for female actors.

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 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.

In my own experience, when we have an open directing assignment of any kind, not just the big films, I would say it is the exception, not the rule, that there is a woman in the group of directors that we are interviewing. I think that's from the pool being so small.

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