Amitabh Bachchan Quotes

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

Slowly but surely, we have much better female roles to play and to choose from.

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

On the day I started college in 1979, no woman had ever been on the United States Supreme Court or served as the Speaker of the House. None had been an astronaut or the solo anchor of a network evening news broadcast. Not one had been president of an Ivy League college or run a serious campaign for president.

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?

Women are called upon to defend every bit of progress we have made against particularly virulent attack. But we must also hold out a vision, put forth a positive agenda of what women need and want and then move forward toward that dream.

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

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

It actually was a complete departure having a woman playing M. I didn't realize at the time that it would be so noticed.

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.

It's only very recently that women have succeeded in entering those professions which, as Muses, they typified for the Greeks.

When you talk to women who were working as print journalists or in broadcasting in the '50s, and then you talk to women who were working in the late '60s, there's an enormous difference. There had already been a huge transition. Then, of course, you get well into the '70s and there were women with children working.

I've been really lucky in the work that I have done so far, to work with good female actors in lead roles. Lisa McCune in 'Blood Brothers' and Claudia Karvan in 'Spirited' and then Susie Porter in 'Sisters of War.' They've been working, and they've got good lives around them as well.

I am like many of the women I have played onscreen.

I'm really excited that 'The Other Woman' did so well at the box office, and I hope that will keep encouraging people to make movies about women, starring women, about female friendships. More. Please.

I would love to be directed by more women.

I want to organize so that women see ourselves as people who are entitled to power, entitled to leadership.

The women I know are smart, interesting people who aren't just there to service the men's stories, so I don't know why our art continues to do that.

Strong female leads are important.

There aren't a lot of roles written for women who are strong willed.

I was the first woman to speak ever at the National Press Club, and they gave me a necktie.

Without Police Woman I wouldn't have had a career. The show started about the same time the women's movement was taking off. Ours was the first prime-time one-hour show featuring a strong, professional woman. It paved the way for other series to follow.

With more women in power, the world would be better off.

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.

The More women at work, the sooner we win!