Ryan Murphy Quotes

Some of my favorite auditions have been with female 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've always been slightly hesitant about generalizing movies made by men and women being different in their nature; I think movies by each director are different. Having said that, I think that it's kind of disgraceful that there aren't more female directors.

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

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

If a song is being written for a woman, there should be a woman in the room collaborating.

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

I've done five films directed by women. I did like it. They had qualities, particularly in the romantic tenderness of scenes. I felt sometimes they were a little bit soft, but maybe they were clever to get the guys working the way they wanted them to.

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

I don't think women hold all the answers, but with their skills, their strengths, we can get to a better place.

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

I've worked with a lot of female directors over the course of my career: Martha Coolidge, Catherine Hardwicke, Jodie Foster.

The reality is that diversity as an overall subject has to continue to be addressed onscreen. That goes beyond having a gay superhero. There should be a black superhero, a Latino superhero and, while we're at it, we still aren't seeing nearly enough women behind the scenes and as the anchors of movies.

There are a lot more female writers wanting to direct their own material and hopefully will be given the opportunity.

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

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

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

The coolest part about 'God Made Girls' is you had all these different women writing it, so you had all these different perspectives in this song.

We always like working with really powerful female voices.

I'm just hoping that as I get older, and as more and more movies get made by female directors, what we start to see is how, in the same way good male directors get a shot at creating interesting male and female characters, women do as well.

There are a lot of women who direct in a way that is even more masculine sometimes than men - and that's not a bad thing, either.

We need more points of view from women and we need more support for female directors and writers in the industry.

I would love to see more women directors because they represent half of the population - and gave birth to the whole world. Without them writing and being directors, the rest of us are not going to know the whole story.

I think it helps in any comedy room for a woman to have very strong, respected convictions, because then it opens the door up a little bit for other women to have that.

We don't want to be our own niche. We're filmmakers like everybody. How many years in a row are we going to talk about the fact that we make films and we are women? Enough already.