Talulah Riley Quotes

Directing is the last frontier for women in the movie business. We are studio heads, we are producers and we are writers, but we are not directors in any numbers.

You know, right now, they say - I don't know who says this, but somebody told me - there's three male roles to every female role. And I guess I'd work on evening that up. Making great roles for women. It's just such a huge challenge.

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

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

I think it would be great to have more female directors making huge-budget movies.

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.

I've always been told that because of 'Main Hoon Na,' a lot of female filmmakers have come up but I maintain that direction is a 'genderless' job.

Female directors are slightly less vociferous.

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

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

Sundance is the only hand that feeds for women directors.

But it's cool working with female directors because I'm a girl, so you do relate to them more. You can talk to them about other stuff like clothes and all that.

It's frustrating we still don't see more movies featuring strong women.

There are still so few female directors. There are far fewer writers than we'd like to see.

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 love women. I've always cared about making movies about women my entire career.

I think actively promoting women in science is very important because the data has certainly shown that there has been an underrepresentation.

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.

It's not often that a strong female role comes across one's desk, unfortunately, but it's getting better.

I feel like every year there's a thing about 'not enough roles for ladies!' and, then, also an article, like 'The Year of The Woman.' I think that we all just know in our hearts they're underrepresented. But that doesn't mean that there aren't amazing moments.

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

The idea that women are actually getting some jobs - whoopee. I can't say that I celebrate it without a hint of cynicism, because I think of how easily things can drop away and go back to the same old routine of being a boys' show. But I think it's a wonderful thing that women are getting to direct more.

Some of my favorite auditions have been with female directors.

I think it's absolutely about time that we have as many female leads as male. It's a very exciting time to be an actress.

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