Nancy Dubuc Quotes

I guess the more women are present and out there in life, the more their stories will be told. I don't know. Their stories have always been told on Lifetime.

Today, people like Reese Witherspoon and Meryl Streep have vowed to improve the opportunities for women, but those promises are still unusual.

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

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

I would love to see more women directors because they represent half of the population - and gave birth to the whole world. Without them writing and being directors, the rest of us are not going to know the whole story.

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.

In television, women can really run anything. It can be a comedy, it can be a drama, it can be genre, it can be anything. But in films, women are still getting to the top.

I love stories about women, and I think stories about women are generally pretty underrepresented.

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

When I was starting out, the first women studio heads and writers were just getting into their perches - development execs learning their chops.

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.

Having been in some roles that really resonated with women, I became hyper-aware of how women are represented in Hollywood.

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

The idea that women are actually getting some jobs - whoopee. I can't say that I celebrate it without a hint of cynicism, because I think of how easily things can drop away and go back to the same old routine of being a boys' show. But I think it's a wonderful thing that women are getting to direct more.

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.

What's so dumb is that women are 50 per cent of the population, and they want to spend money to see movies where they're portrayed as three-dimensional characters.

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.

People should start appreciating films where women are at the centre.

We need better and stronger roles for female actors.

Women are underrepresented and neglected in all aspects of the entertainment industry, so naturally, those of us who want to make a change use any opportunity to shine a light on someone when we can.

I really am enjoying the fact that I feel like women are having more and more say in Hollywood, in television particular.

I'd like to see more female heads of studios because what's also being crucially lost is the female perspective: 50% of the population are not having their stories told.

We need to encourage more women to write roles for other women. The great substantive roles aren't being written for women and aren't being produced and directed by women.