Drew Barrymore Quotes

It's just cool for a girl to be able to do her own thing. I do a lot of movies, and I'm very lucky, and I'm not complaining. But in movies, alongside big action men, we've always got to take a step back and let the men shine.

I finally, you know, moved to Mexico City, where the film industry is. I started working there as a producer, which is a very, very valid thing for women to do, because we always produce for men, right?

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

We thought we'd write a good script for women, giving them the fun roles that generally men get.

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

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.

As women, we tend to take the easy way out in showbiz. I have done movies where all I did was look pretty in every frame.

But it's cool working with female directors because I'm a girl, so you do relate to them more. You can talk to them about other stuff like clothes and all that.

I don't think about the gender thing very much. But when I speak at schools, I've had female students say to me afterwards, "I never envisioned myself being a director, since I've never seen women do it." But after seeing me, they can picture themselves directing, so maybe we'll see more female directors.

There aren't enough good roles for strong women. I wish we had more female writers. Most of the female characters you see in films today are the 'poor heartbroken girl.'

We thought we'd write a good script for women, giving them the fun roles that generally men get.

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.

Maybe actors are more passionate about cinema than actresses. Many heroines today seem unable to look beyond glamour.

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.

I'm glad that cinema is catching up to what television has known for a while: That three-dimensional, complex women get an audience engaged as much as the men.

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

There are a lot of women screenwriters, but they are obviously outnumbered by men. And it still is a very much male-dominated industry.

Basically, I just want to do a movie where I'm surrounded by women.

I did things like Shampoo and Heaven Can Wait. I don't know what those films were about. The women I played in them were not very empowered.

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

Get more women producers, writers, directors. Why should we expect men to do it for us? They can't.

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

Every casting director I've met is a woman.

If you're a woman, just make a freaking good movie. I don't believe in the women who say, 'It's too hard, I'm getting shot down.'

There have been a few times when I've read a script and it's really cool but the girl character's just kind of pathetic. It's not going to do me any favours just being 'the girl' in a cool movie.