I think that it is a total shame that we don't have more…

Any advice I could give to female directors would be the same as for males: There will be endless difficulties, some seemingly defeating, on…

— Deniz Gamze Erguven

Back in the day when I was on The WB, I may have only had one or two female directors throughout the entire run…

— Shiri Appleby

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

Behind the cameras, there's a different problem, which I think is not unconscious gender bias. It's probably categorized more as conscious gender bias. Because…

— Geena Davis

There are so many female directors coming into the industry and a lot of them have important stories they want to tell that seem…

— Anne Fletcher

My advice to female directors is not to wait until you feel like your ideas have been pre-certified or until you think you've gotten…

— Abigail Disney

I had done drama at university, but I never thought I could be a director. There were so few female directors then. I just…

— Marianne Elliott

I don't really consider myself a female director, and I don't want to do so for other women. Female directors are just directors.

— Alante Kavaite

I do believe female directors, as well as our female writer, can bring out male vulnerability that some men can't because they can't face…

— Ben Kingsley

I do all these panels where people are always talking about the lack of female directors, and I have a lot of opinions on…

— Julie Plec

Here, we have female directors and producers; in fact, one whole channel is run by a woman. Pakistani TV is progressive, and hence, characters…

— Umera Ahmad

There's so many more female directors than when I started. That's encouraging.

— Sofia Coppola

Most people view female directors as female only, that we only deal with women's issues and women characters. Although most of my films have…

— Shahad Ameen

I've worked with a couple of female directors now, and I think that they're amazing. As good or better than guy directors.

— Alia Shawkat

It's tougher for women than men in Hollywood, period, if you ask me. As with most professions, women have generally not found equality with…

— Nazanin Boniadi