Jessica Chastain Quotes

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.

There's a different energy with a female director, a female at the head of the production. I don't prefer one over the other, but they're definitely different experiences, and I would love to have more of them.

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

I would love to be directed by more women.

I'm not saying I only want to work with female directors. But I want to continue to work with emerging female directors.

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

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 more female writers wanting to direct their own material and hopefully will be given the opportunity.

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

If we do want to bring a woman in to direct a 'Star Wars'... we don't want to talk somebody into it.

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

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.

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.

Every single one of us who has been a 'Woman in Film' for more than five minutes is sick of the phrase 'Women in Film.'

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.

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.

If you do the math, films featuring women are a good investment.

The world needs more women filmmakers, so we have to keep encouraging ourselves and one another, and eventually things must get easier for us.

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?

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

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.

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

Women one hundred percent support each other in the movie industry.