Amanda Peet Quotes

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.

Some of my favorite auditions have been with female directors.

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

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

Ultimately, mentorship plays such a big role in breaking directors that successful male directors tend to reach the helping hand to guys who remind them of themselves. We need more women directors so they can reach out to girls who remind them of themselves.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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 are many amazing female directors that made work in more skewed times, so we should be thankful for the boundaries they pushed through.

There are a lot of female directors in documentary, very talented. But it's always lower budget.

It's interesting when women direct. The work is better. They ask more people to participate.

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.

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 have worked with three female first assistant directors - on 'Hostiles,' 'Gone Girl,' and a short film, 'The Human Voice,' and they have all been exceptional.

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

If we do want to bring a woman in to direct a 'Star Wars'... we don't want to talk somebody into it.

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

There are so many young women in film school right now, and it's just about foreign sales companies, domestic sales companies agreeing to finance films directed by and starring women.

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