Gillian Armstrong Quotes

It is really a sad state of affairs if I am still the only commercially successful woman director. We need a lot more commercially viable women, not only in direction.

I would love to be directed by more women.

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

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.

It remains an incredible struggle for women in theater, and, in particular, playwrights and directors, to get their work seen and to not only get seen, but to get it to Broadway.

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

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

I'm definitely looking forward to doing a film one day with more female actors.

No matter what, I'm in a very small club. There are very few women who have directed studio-level commercial films - very few.

We definitely have to support other female directors because there's not enough of us.

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.

I want more girls to be able to see themselves behind the camera creating images we all enjoy, and I want to call attention to the fact that women directors are here all over the world.

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.

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.

Some of my favorite auditions have been with female directors.

Back in the day when I was on The WB, I may have only had one or two female directors throughout the entire run of a series.

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

I want to see some scripts written by women and projects being directed by women.

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

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

There are a lot of women - directors, producers, writers - involved in my career. They are all interested in telling good stories, and good stories involve men and women.

I was lucky to work with Gamechanger Films, who are a consortium of investors financing films directed by women. This is a company that puts their money where their mouth is.

While complex acting roles are lacking for actresses, what's even more rare are female directors.

Women in Film and Television is such an important body.