Melissa McCarthy Quotes

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

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?

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

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

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.

It's important to push the agenda of hiring women directors.

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

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 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.

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.

I want to see some scripts written by women and projects being directed by women.

Women in Film and Television is such an important body.

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

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

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

There's a different energy with a female director, a female at the head of the production. I don't prefer one over the other, but they're definitely different experiences, and I would love to have more of them.

Even after such milestones as Kathryn Bigelow winning an Oscar, there still seem to be few women in leadership roles.

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.

No matter what, I'm in a very small club. There are very few women who have directed studio-level commercial films - very few.

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.

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

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.