Karyn Kusama Quotes

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.

I'm not saying I only want to work with female directors. But I want to continue to work with emerging female directors.

We definitely have to support other female directors because there's not enough of us.

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.

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?

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 would love to be directed by more women.

There has never been a female director who has won an Oscar. There has only been one woman who won at the Cannes Film Festival.

I think it will be great if we have more female directors in the world.

This business is based on numbers, and the numbers show that it's worth investing in female-driven and female-directed films.

It remains an incredible struggle for women in theater, and, in particular, playwrights and directors, to get their work seen and to not only get seen, but to get it to Broadway.

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

Support women directors. When a play opens, and it's by a woman, put your money down.

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

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 have a lot to say about how to advance women's rights, and governments need to learn from that, listen to the movement and respond.

I think women are in much the same place in the Irish theater as they are everywhere else. Certainly, we have wonderful Irish writers, and we have quite a number of Irish women directors. But there could be more, and there should be more.

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.'

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

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

There should be more women directing; I think there's just not the awareness that it's really possible.

I was one of the first women producers in Hollywood.

I want more girls to be able to see themselves behind the camera creating images we all enjoy, and I want to call attention to the fact that women directors are here all over the world.