Esme Creed-Miles Quotes

I want to see some scripts written by women and projects being directed by women.

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.

When I go to a web video meeting and look around, at least half the show runners are women. And a lot are actors-cum-writers who are frustrated with the situation of being a woman actor in Hollywood and have decided to create their own show.

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

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.

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

I would love to be directed by more women.

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

It's sad that women characters have lost so much ground in popular movies. Didn't 'Thelma and Louise' prove that women want to see women doing things on film? Thelma and Louise were in a classic car; they were being chased by cops; they shot up a truck - and women loved it.

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

Women in Film and Television is such an important body.

I think it would be great to have more female directors making huge-budget movies.

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

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

It's important to push the agenda of hiring women directors.

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.

Personally, I feel a strong responsibility to make sure that we have women equally represented in our executive suites and that we employ women in front of and behind the camera and in our writers' rooms.

The lack of women directors is a sad fact of life. Kathryn Bigelow's thrilling Best Director win may help turn things around.

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

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.