Phoebe Robinson Quotes

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

There are still so few female directors. There are far fewer writers than we'd like to see.

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.

When only one or two percent of filmmakers are female, you can't help but have some kind of bias.

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.

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?

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

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

I've worked with so few female directors.

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.

There are woefully few women CEOs in the world, but there can be lots of them in films.

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.

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.

In my own experience, when we have an open directing assignment of any kind, not just the big films, I would say it is the exception, not the rule, that there is a woman in the group of directors that we are interviewing. I think that's from the pool being so small.

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.

I certainly hope that we will get more women in power, when it comes to executives and producers and directors, because the problem is not a shortage of females who are qualified to do the job. It's just that women are not favoured or chosen.

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.

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

Women over 35 have great stories, and the actresses are there, but you can't get the movies made.

The women executives in the film industry have the power to say, 'No,' but few of them have the power to say, 'Yes.'

I wrote 'Thelma & Louise' in 1988, and we shot it in 1990. Everyone kept saying, 'This is so groundbreaking... this is going to change the landscape,' but I don't see that result at all. When we saw some female studio executives, we were hopeful that more women would be hired as directors, but that didn't really seem to happen.

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

I would love to be directed by more women.

There has never been a female director who has won an Oscar. There has only been one woman who won at the Cannes Film Festival.