I think for female filmmakers a big issue is making their…

I thing for female filmmakers a big issue is making their second and third films. You see the statistics, and the dropoff on the…

— Ava DuVernay

Roger Ebert was such a champion of underrepresented filmmakers. He was a very big deal to me. It shows the power of critics. People…

— Ava DuVernay

Without the benefit of Google, ask anybody to name more than five female filmmakers that have made more than three films. It's shockingly hard.

— Leslye Headland

I've always been told that because of 'Main Hoon Na,' a lot of female filmmakers have come up but I maintain that direction is…

— Farah Khan

Someone once shared a statistic with me about how long it takes women to make their second films. On average, it's three years for…

— Marielle Heller

Second films are, you know, like 'difficult second albums', so it's a tricky position to be in but I think he's made a highly…

— Andy Serkis

Of course, Italy is a country in which the number of female filmmakers is very, very low but this a question that should be…

— Alice Rohrwacher

It doesn't matter if you're the smartest person in the room: If you're not someone who people want to be around, you won't get…

— Melissa Rosenberg

I would give female filmmakers the same advice I’d give any filmmaker; believe in your vision, believe in your team, believe in yourself.

— Leanne Pooley

It's very difficult to figure out, for me, what stops really talented young female filmmakers from having the kind of careers that their really…

— Karyn Kusama

I think that until a filmmaker knows that about him- or herself, the films they make will just be copies of other people's work.…

— Megan Griffiths

Female directors really do need to support each other. Too many times I've been led to believe that my direct competition was other women,…

— Jennifer Phang

I feel like directing is more about who the individual is rather than if they're a man or a woman. It's kind of hard…

— Reed Morano

Along the way, female filmmakers will have the feeling that they're not good enough. And that's really just a result of being "otherized" from…

— Jill Soloway

I think it is kind of depressing how few female filmmakers there are. I think it is in general depressing how few women there…

— Susanne Bier