Julie Bowen Quotes

I would love to do more movies, but the reality is women have many more opportunities on television to play a greater variety of characters.

I think there is a wonderful trend of strong female characters on television right now.

The roles for women in theatre are much better than they are in film.

Television really does offer still great parts for women, cable in particular.

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.

There are some great women's roles in television... so much more interesting than what I was reading in film scripts.

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

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

The cool thing is that, unlike film, the theatre roles for women get better and better as you get older.

Women's lives get more interesting the older they get. For some reason, when you hit 35, it turns into a grey area filmically. There's not much more until you start playing grannies. I'm not ready for that. I'm just naffed off that, between 35 and 50, there aren't better things about.

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

You're allowed to make things for women on television and there's not like... you don't have to go through the humiliation of having made something directed at women. There it's just accepted, whereas if it's a feature, it's like 'So, talk to me about chick flicks.'

There were not enough women like Kay on TV and now there are none.

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

As a producer and director, I've tried for years to get properties off the ground for girls, and I've been hitting a brick wall.

Television is a real woman's medium... but what's disturbing is, still even in television, women have so little to do with what's going on behind the scenes.

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

I would love to be directed by more women.

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

I'd love to see more women working as directors and producers.

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 find it extraordinary that contemporary dramatists don't find women interesting. Women are rarely, if ever, the central dramatic engine; they're there as an adjunct, and that hasn't changed at all.

What's so dumb is that women are 50 per cent of the population, and they want to spend money to see movies where they're portrayed as three-dimensional characters.

Good female parts are hard to come by, so I go all over the place to find them: cable TV, network movies of the week, foreign films, independent American films, studio films, the stage.

We had a moment in the '40s and '50s, where female characters were very strong in film, where these incredible roles were written for women like Joan Crawford, like Bette Davis. But then there was a space of time where - I don't know why - it wasn't like that. It became difficult for women to find certain roles after a certain age.