Milla Jovovich Quotes

The audience simply don't find a heroine picking a fight with 10 guys as convincing as a hero. So the industry always sticks to psychological thrillers and ghost movies for heroine-oriented projects and this can sustain only for a short time.

I spend a lot of time on college campuses, a lot of time mentoring young women in all sectors of business, because I don't want them to spend as much time to get their voice as I did.

I've made movies that are real boy movies - but I've had so much fun over the years working with women and getting good performances with women and with strong female characters.

In television, women can really run anything. It can be a comedy, it can be a drama, it can be genre, it can be anything. But in films, women are still getting to the top.

When they make a woman's picture, they treat it like a 'woman's picture.' In the '40s, they didn't treat Joan Crawford movies like that, but as the big movies of their year. I'm upset that there's no 'Terminator' with a woman in Arnold Schwarzenegger's role. Because that would make just as much money.

Those of us in the industry who are still foolishly clinging to the idea that female films with women at the center are niche experiences - they are not. Audiences want to see them and, in fact, they earn money. The world is round, people.

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.

In terms of the movie business, being in a 'Lord of the Rings' has given me more interesting options as work.

Sometimes it's more difficult to exist as a female lead, especially in action movies because all those men are around you. They take so much place.

It's sad that women characters have lost so much ground in popular movies. Didn't 'Thelma and Louise' prove that women want to see women doing things on film? Thelma and Louise were in a classic car; they were being chased by cops; they shot up a truck - and women loved it.

If a studio sees that a female can bring in audiences, then they're going to make movies with that person.

What I had noticed is that there weren't a lot of women lining up to see a comic book movie, but they were going to line up to see 'The Devil Wears Prada,' which may have been something I wanted to address.

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

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.

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

When I first came to Hollywood to make 'Mortal Kombat' back in the day, there was this rule that female-led action movies don't work and American studios didn't want to make them.

It's frustrating to see that people still get shocked when they see a woman doing action.

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

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

People have to fix whatever bias they have, and I see this bias consistently, all the time, towards women directors. They're just not being trusted with action.

Women directors in India have mostly made niche films. Naturally, those films have a limited market.

It is draining when you have a child, and there aren't many women directors with kids out there as role models.

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.

Any successful company has female models.

As a woman candidate myself, I know how important it was to be encouraged to run, to think outside of the box.