Black Quote by Ava DuVernay

I think it's very repressive for a woman to be constantly told that she has to make films about women to better represent women,…

— Romola Garai

The roles that I feel I get, or handed to me, or whatever, are not that interesting. I don't think it's a problem that's…

— Aunjanue Ellis

The stories are being written by men, and it's men who are directing it. As long as that continues, you won't be seeing much…

— Suhasini Maniratnam

It was never a deliberate decision to make films about the 'woman experience'. Having said that, we are all many things - for example…

— Chika Anadu

In our society, as women filmmakers, we are expected to make films that empower women and that raise awareness about women's issues. That is…

— Esra Saydam

There are more films which are being written around women.

— Athiya Shetty

A film is a mirror image of our society. If there's something wrong with the way we make films or the way women are…

— Kalki Koechlin

Women are really complex and totally enigmatic. Humans are really complex, but in film, we've only ever seen that with men. We've seen antiheroes…

— Andrea Riseborough

As cinema is a reflection of the world around us, with more women coming into the mainstream business, more women narratives will grab the…

— Zoya Akhtar

I'm still trying to do films about black women.

— Pam Grier

Every time I watch a history of cinema - or a documentary on film - it will show eleven men talking about movies that…

— Kelly Reichardt

As black women, we're miles behind our white counterparts in being offered the space to create and craft female characters in major blockbuster films.

— Teyonah Parris