Michiel Huisman Quotes

I would love to be directed by more women.

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

I think it would be great to have more female directors making huge-budget movies.

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

There are a lot more female writers wanting to direct their own material and hopefully will be given the opportunity.

Ultimately, mentorship plays such a big role in breaking directors that successful male directors tend to reach the helping hand to guys who remind them of themselves. We need more women directors so they can reach out to girls who remind them of themselves.

I've worked with a couple of female directors now, and I think that they're amazing. As good or better than guy directors.

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

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.

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

Personally, I feel a strong responsibility to make sure that we have women equally represented in our executive suites and that we employ women in front of and behind the camera and in our writers' rooms.

The lack of women directors is a sad fact of life. Kathryn Bigelow's thrilling Best Director win may help turn things around.

I can say I love working with women. Film is a man's world, and I really appreciate the opportunity to collaborate with women, especially young women.

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.

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.

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'm definitely looking forward to doing a film one day with more female actors.

I'd love to see more women working as directors and producers.

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.

It's not often that a strong female role comes across one's desk, unfortunately, but it's getting better.

The idea that women are actually getting some jobs - whoopee. I can't say that I celebrate it without a hint of cynicism, because I think of how easily things can drop away and go back to the same old routine of being a boys' show. But I think it's a wonderful thing that women are getting to direct more.

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.

Some of my favorite auditions have been with female directors.