Susanne Bier Quotes

I do all these panels where people are always talking about the lack of female directors, and I have a lot of opinions on that.

To come to a concert and hear a lot of songs from a female perspective should not make men say, 'Oh well, that's for women'.

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

When I was an undergraduate in Film & TV at NYU/Tisch School of the Arts, most of the projects I shot had male directors, and only a few had female directors.

Regardless of the business aspect of things, is there a reason that there isn't a female Hitchcock or a female Scorsese or a female Spielberg? I don't know. I think it's a medium that really is built for the male gaze and for a male sensibility.

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

I've worked with so few female directors.

Women are half the population of the world, and yet there are so few female characters on-screen.

Some of my favorite auditions have been with female directors.

I think that women are underrepresented behind the camera as directors.

Every single one of us who has been a 'Woman in Film' for more than five minutes is sick of the phrase 'Women in Film.'

It felt amazing to be one of a handful working female directors in Hollywood.

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.

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

What these books have conclusively proven is that the diffence between men and women is exactly 38 pages.

There aren't good roles for women: the female parts aren't developed: the women are serving the 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.

I never wanted to be an actress who complained about the lack of roles for women.

If there's specific resistance to women making movies, I just choose to ignore that as an obstacle for two reasons: I can't change my gender, and I refuse to stop making movies.

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.

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've been trying to find women writers for my staff for a while now and I have three women on my staff and three guys so it's pretty equal. I don't know why that is. It's been the same thing for a while. It's hard for female comedians to stand out. That's weird. That's a shame.

There aren't enough good roles for strong women. I wish we had more female writers. Most of the female characters you see in films today are the 'poor heartbroken girl.'

If I have a male protagonist, it's a studio movie, and if it's a female protagonist, it's an indie movie. That's just how it is. It's not about the studios. It's about America and who goes to see movies. Women are interested in men and women, and men aren't interested in the woman's story. They just aren't.

... to say that men are the only ones who can have this experience is ludicrous, and to say that for these reasons: "there will never be any really great women writers in the theatre," is equally funny because as a rule women know not only what men know but much that men will never know.”