Hailee Steinfeld Quotes

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.

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.

Every casting director I've met is a woman.

I would love to be directed by more women.

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

Some of my favorite auditions have been with female directors.

Should 50 per cent of Telefilm's projects be helmed, produced, or written by women? I think so.

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

In an industry still dominated by men, working with a female director on an episode written by a woman, helmed by a female showrunner, all while doing scenes with your screen sister is like getting to see the big five at the wild animal park. It's awesome.

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.

I can say I love working with women. Film is a man's world, and I really appreciate the opportunity to collaborate with women, especially young women.

At the BBC we've had plenty of women in good management jobs. It comes and goes but there's been plenty. On air, I think there's quite a bit more we can do.

Those of us in the industry who are still foolishly clinging to the idea that female films with women at the center are niche experiences - they are not. Audiences want to see them and, in fact, they earn money. The world is round, people.

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

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

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.

Definitely, I feel that there is a need for more female producers, directors, and writers.

People have to fix whatever bias they have, and I see this bias consistently, all the time, towards women directors. They're just not being trusted with action.

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.

What's important is to have more women creators behind the scenes, being producers and being in charge. That will ultimately help push this boys'-club, locker-room mentality out the door.

I love working with women - I love women - and we need more women directors. We need more feminine sensibilities in movies.

I know how gratifying it is not only to work in film but to be acknowledged by peers; producing '9 to 5' was an opportunity that I valued precisely because it's so rarely in the hands of women.

I'd love to work on a real girl piece with some fabulous actresses. I feel like I've worked with so many men.