Salma Hayek Quotes

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?

I've worked with so few female directors.

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.

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

Sundance is the only hand that feeds for women 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.

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.

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

I would love to be directed by more women.

This business is based on numbers, and the numbers show that it's worth investing in female-driven and female-directed films.

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.

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.

I think that women are uniquely suited to the job of directing, and I've seen it firsthand.

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.

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.

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

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

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

To deny women directors, as I suspect is happening in the States, is to deny the feminine vision.

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.

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

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.

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

The bottom line is that female writers aren't being given enough opportunities by male producers.

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.