Sarah Gavron Quotes

The world needs more women filmmakers, so we have to keep encouraging ourselves and one another, and eventually things must get easier for us.

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.

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

I just don't think there's a lot of support for the woman's voice in cinema, and it becomes really difficult to raise that money and start again every time.

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?

Some of the best roles are for women in these independent, smaller movies.

I feel there is no shortage of real interesting women's roles. But I found them and did all of them just now.

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

There are some great women's roles in television... so much more interesting than what I was reading in film scripts.

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

By and large, I think female directors are far more sensitive.

People should start appreciating films where women are at the centre.

I hope when people see that female-led production companies are working, there will be more of us.

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.

I really am enjoying the fact that I feel like women are having more and more say in Hollywood, in television particular.

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

I am very keen to do a film that's female-led.

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

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.

I like women in film. I like women in general, but I especially like to show them on film. They are not ciphers.

I know how gratifying it is not only to work in film but to be acknowledged by peers; producing '9 to 5' was an opportunity that I valued precisely because it's so rarely in the hands of women.

Sundance is the only hand that feeds for women directors.

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.

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

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.