Being a woman Quote by Cosima Spender

First of all, being a woman is an incredible asset in many ways in making documentaries. You can be less intimidating, you have a…

— Ondi Timoner

Documentaries require an enormous amount of grit and empathy - and that is something women are incredibly strong at.

— Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi

I am particularly pleased to see that there are so many women working in documentary film.

— Chris Hegedus

In documentary, which is the only thing I'm really very familiar with, women are very easily relegated into a producer role.

— Liz W. Garcia

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

To be honest, I am not especially pleased to be slotted primarily as a 'woman filmmaker', but it's okay with me. Plus, I see…

— Ann Hui

Most women I know are not actresses, but they work for the U.N. or are documentary filmmakers, anthropologists.

— Annabelle Wallis

I looked at [Geena Davis] research and see things like 21 percent of filmmakers are women, only 31 percent of speaking roles in popular…

— Emma Watson

I started out as a camera operator. I was doing news, and I was doing sports - baseball games and football games. And I…

— Kathleen Kennedy

I'm getting more and more used to the fact that being a director and being a woman are two things that everyone wants to…

— Marielle Heller

I've been really lucky that my career has largely been shaped by women filmmakers.

— Lily Gladstone

I think the roles in television are better for women right now. At this point, I don't want to continue doing the same things…

— Sandra Oh