Prabhu Deva Quotes

With films like 'NH-10' and 'Phillauri,' what Anushka Sharma is doing, or what Shraddha Kapoor and Vidya Balan are doing with their films, the industry is changing for women.

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

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

I love stories about women, and I think stories about women are generally pretty underrepresented.

I love women. I've always cared about making movies about women my entire career.

I want there to be tons and tons and tons and tons of movies starring women.

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

As an actress, to get to work on a project where the main focus is the female voice is rare!

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

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.

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.

Audiences want to watch heroine-oriented films, and even writers are writing scripts for women. I am very happy to see this change.

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

Women have been writing strong women characters for a long time - hello, Maxine Hong Kingston! - it's just taken mainstream comics a really long while to catch up.

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

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.

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.

Women are never the protagonists; we're always reactionary against everything that's done to us. I like people who write for women that have got a bit more about them.

My goal when I make my show is to make a show for women. I don't make a show for men.

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

The women executives in the film industry have the power to say, 'No,' but few of them have the power to say, 'Yes.'

I'm very keenly aware that there aren't very many women writing literary fiction in Ireland and so that gives me a sense that what I say matters, in some small way.

There are few films where you have women really driving the plot.

To deny women directors, as I suspect is happening in the States, is to deny the feminine vision.

I'm still very interested in telling one-of-a-kind women's stories.