Feminist Cinema Quotes

For me, I am a huge fan of Sofia Coppola and Lynn Shelton. I love Lena Dunham, like everybody else. I love Kathryn Bigelow.

Audiences want to watch heroine-oriented films, and even writers are writing scripts for women. I am very happy to see this change.

I was also told some years ago that I shouldn't 'waste my time' with female-centric films because the audience was not ready for it.

If you're going to make a film about rage in 2018, 2017... If you're going to make a film about revenge and anger, I feel like that has to be a film about women. I don't really want to watch a film about angry men. I've seen way too many of those.

Movies are arguably the most influential, important medium in the world. They have a tremendous cultural impact. Because women are now making movies, then women's ideas, philosophy, point of view will seep into that culture. And that's never happened in history. Ever, ever, ever. We can't even see the impact of that yet.

My favorite movie is 'The Women' from 1939. It's been my favorite movie since I was like 12 years old. I love the dialogue, really. It's just a lot of really strong female performances. Rosalind Russell kills it, you know.

One of our jobs is to keep women working, which we do by keeping women coming to the movies. And doing that means making good, smart, often funny movies that women can identify with-with terrific dialogue we all remember and cherish, and stories that illuminate our lives and decisions and turning points.

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

Every film that I have done has been woman-centric, because I am in it.

I love strong women in films that are allowed to play women and not male fantasies.

I'm not interested in seeing a film just made by a woman - not unless she is looking for new images.

When I talk about movies like 'Rosemary's Baby' and 'Stepford Wives,' I really noticed that these movies were able to address fears surround the women's lib movement in a way that was engaging, not preachy, but fun.

I want to see that 'Anita' documentary. I want to see 'Lovelace'; I want to see 'After Midnight,' because I saw the other two and I loved them. I thought the last one was great.

I had wanted to make this film [Suffragette] for over a decade. There has never been a cinematic rendition of this story. I had not been taught any of the history of the movement at school, and the version I had gleaned had been the Mary Poppins story of women in large hats, petitioning. There was another version.

'Thelma and Louise' was a pretty important film for me and still is. It's a social film about many things - gender, freedom - and it puts someone like me into the place of these protagonists. Watching that movie, you are living through the eyes of these women.

We were so hungry for 'Sex and the City' that even though it was heightened and written by gay men, we just needed to see different women on television. Give us another movie.

I started really idolizing people like Nicole Holofcener and Whit Stillman.

Alankrita is such a crazy filmmaker, and I loved 'Lipstick Under My Burkha.'

Why is it so difficult to have films seeing the world from women's perspective like 'Thelma and Louise?'

A movie about a weak, vulnerable woman can be feminist if it shows a real person that we can empathize with.

I have always acted in films where women have an equal, if not bigger, role than mine. Don't the kind of films you do reflect your personality?