Alex Sharp Quotes

As an actress, to get to work on a project where the main focus is the female voice is rare!

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

Disney has proved without a shadow of a doubt that movies with a female lead work.

I wish that there were more female driven films, female-centric films being made.

Sometimes I take a movie selfishly because it's a female lead.

I think for women especially, writing and creating your own role, producing, directing - having some control over what you do is really important. We can pave the way for other women to send what messages they want sent.

Some of the best roles are for women in these independent, smaller movies.

I love women. I've always cared about making movies about women my entire career.

I want there to be tons and tons and tons and tons of movies starring women.

I wish I had seen some women directing before - that would have given me the idea of who I was.

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 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.

One of the things I think I can do in my lifetime is stop to remind myself that - and keep affirming that - women can sell movies.

Audiences want to watch heroine-oriented films, and even writers are writing scripts for women. I am very happy to see this change.

I think despite what we've seen on TV, people like seeing women and knowing about women's stories and their struggles and their truth. I think we've seen it in a lot of these shows - when there's a cast of all women, it does very well.

With films like 'NH-10' and 'Phillauri,' what Anushka Sharma is doing, or what Shraddha Kapoor and Vidya Balan are doing with their films, the industry is changing for women.

I think we have a long way to go in the entertainment industry, particularly in movies, but I feel like in television, there's somebody is finally saying, 'Hey, women have stories to tell, and oddly enough, women want to hear them.'

The number of female-lead action films is definitely growing, which is great.

It's actually kind of cool that women have taken to me. Because now I have a whole different demographic when it comes to the audiences. I have women who come out and support my movies, and that is a huge demographic for me, which is great because some actors don't have a female base at all.

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.

You know, right now, they say - I don't know who says this, but somebody told me - there's three male roles to every female role. And I guess I'd work on evening that up. Making great roles for women. It's just such a huge challenge.

We thought we'd write a good script for women, giving them the fun roles that generally men get.

It's so rare that you actually get to find a really well-written female lead.

Strong female leads make more of an impact in the U.K. than in Denmark.

Women are never the protagonists; we're always reactionary against everything that's done to us. I like people who write for women that have got a bit more about them.