Female Filmmaker Quotes

I knew I needed to make a studio film - not for any financial reason, but because, as a filmmaker, and especially as a female filmmaker, you have to break through the glass ceiling.

Penelope Spheeris is a wonderful lady.

I have been enormously lucky. My first role was in a great film by a woman director.

I've been inspired for a long time by Nicole Holofcener. I admire her greatly as an auteur, examining the human condition in a funny, growing, spirited, honestly dark and human way.

The woman I'd want to meet the most is Nicole Holofcener. I've loved every single film she's done. I think her films are deeply comedic while being deeply disturbing and dark.

For a woman to direct a movie in Hollywood, she has to go through so many layers of rejection by the powers that be - I suppose including myself - that it is harder to get to that point. So you can't just create something. And I think there is a whole unconscious mountain.

I wish I could be the black woman Soderbergh, and put the camera on my shoulder and shoot beautifully while I directed.

As a woman filmmaker in Bosnia, I have more privileges than disadvantages. I feel I can do more than my male colleagues with a motherly approach rather than a male approach.

Jane Campion is a tough director.

'Mafiosa' was written by Veronica Russo. It's her first time making a film, and I'm really proud of her because this woman has a full-time job, and she decided one day, 'You know, I want to write a film, and I want to make it.'

I didn't see myself as a woman doing film but as a radical film-maker who was a woman.

For me, I want to see diversity in storytelling sources because we live in a very diverse society, and the stories are for the whole society. That's really important. For me, as a female filmmaker, when I was out on the festival circuit on 2006, I felt like such a freaking anomaly - an oddity.

Susanne Bier's work I've always really enjoyed. She's just such a great filmmaker; she's very cool and very sexy - that always helps, too.

For me, the most exciting thing is that Jane Campion is a woman we can all really look up to. She doesn't have the body of work that some other directors do - no woman director does - but her work is so consistently original, wonderful, masterful.

We are going to hire a woman who's going to direct a 'Star Wars' movie. I have no doubt.

I've always been a big fan of Anjali Menon as a director and have watched most of her films, too.

I'm quite unusual in directing terms: I'm a woman. I'm quite a girly girl. I was never academic.

I do find that it's easier to get Latino-themed movies... but I don't think there's that stigma anymore. I think that what's harder is to be a woman, not to be a Latina.

'Imitation Girl' is a feature written and directed by Natasha Kermani. She's one of the founders of Illium Pictures who co-produced 'Pod.'

I love the Kathryn Bigelow example: she didn't just do war movies - she did them better than other directors.

People would ask for my autograph because they had never seen a woman behind the camera before.

Greta Gerwig always seemed like a name that was mine. My mother did a good job.

I love Meghna Gulzar's film making and her style of story telling. In her films, every character, small or big, is beautifully etched.