Phyllida Lloyd Quotes

Sometimes I try to sell shows with a female lead to networks, and that isn't something that's been a proven formula for them, so they reject it. I do feel like men get the funniest roles in movies.

Women over 35 have great stories, and the actresses are there, but you can't get the movies made.

The Screen Actors Guild numbers are frightening: Something like 90 percent of the roles are for men, 5 percent are for livestock and 5 percent are for women.

We often hear of a male director directing a great indie and immediately being offered the next huge comic book movie. Rarely, if ever, does this happen to a woman.

When I was a kid and going to the movies I was overwhelmed by the way women were always second-class citizens in the film.

I feel like it's harder to get women to show up for movies.

For movies to get greenlit solely based on the success of other movies that have a lot of women in them? It's so ridiculous to me.

I love acting; I love movie sets and movies, but, at the same time, there's something about the position of women in that world that frightens me a lot. I find it nearly inhuman to be an actress.

There are less opportunities for women.

Suffice to say, many women find their first appearance on a comedy panel show to be their last. Second chances seem to be given less often to the female of the species.

I believe that sexism in tech is a real problem.

If you look through the shelves of science books, you'll find row after row of books written by men. This can be terribly off-putting for women.

There aren't a lot of female story artists, and it's baffling to me. There are a lot of kids in school that are female and I wonder, 'Where did they all go?' People have brought it up, asking me, 'What did you do?' I don't really know. I puttered along, did my thing and gender has really never been an issue.

I never had a single female professor throughout my whole education, from the beginning of university to the end. Even all the books were about men; I never really liked reading books about the history of science, and I never really understood why.

I don't know why, but in my career and in my life, I often find myself in situations where I am the only girl among boys.

Hollywood is a very strong machine that needs, and in... especially with female actors, fresh flesh. It's that cruel. But that's the way it is.

I resent having witnessed the survival of some very mediocre male actors and the professional demise of the very brilliant female ones.

There are 10-20 times more male comics than female comics; it's something to do with the social structure of society.

My debut feature, 'The Baby-Sitters Club,' got good reviews and made good money for what it cost. But it took me six years to get to direct my second feature. I think a guy would have had another movie out the same year.

I remember, the first time it struck me is I was an econ major at Stanford as an undergrad, and it struck me how few women were econ majors back in the '70s. And then in business school how few women... And even then, I thought, 'Gosh, this is really unfortunate.'

When only one or two percent of filmmakers are female, you can't help but have some kind of bias.

For every movie that you go see, how many leading male roles are there in any given movie, and how many leading female roles are there? There may be 5 or 6 really good roles for guys and maybe one for a woman. And it doesn't even matter if you're 25. That's just the logistics.

Lately, I've been in meetings regarding a new script idea I have. A studio executive asked me to change the female lead to a male, because... 'Women don't go to movies.' Really?

After graduating, I was shooting as well as working as a key grip, and I often found myself the only female out of the whole crew, except for producers and the occasional AC.

We have so many male superstars, but there are just a few female actors who have attained that status. It is not only because of the industry; it's in the society.