Industry Quote by Elizabeth Meriwether

Roles written for women are so much more complex on television. The film world is becoming quite flimsy for women.

— Julianna Margulies

There are still so few female directors. There are far fewer writers than we'd like to see.

— Nina Jacobson

I'm really aware that in fiction, women are pretty much equal. There's a lot of very successful women novelists. Not so much [for women…

— Emma Donoghue

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

The film industry is driven by male narrative. Heads of studios are often men, teeming with male executives everywhere you look, and so the…

— Trudie Styler

There's no doubt that the patriarchy that we live in also controls the movie industry. The heads of the studios are men, and it's…

— Ellen Burstyn

I've always been slightly hesitant about generalizing movies made by men and women being different in their nature; I think movies by each director…

— Susanne Bier

The film world is far more male-dominated. I mean, the numbers are staggering at the level of how many people on set there are,…

— Emma Donoghue

The way that I'm feeling the shift in movie industry is that women are allowed to be part of the development process. So I…

— Brie Larson

I've certainly seen stats that if you have a woman director or a woman screenwriter, the number of female characters goes way up.

— Emma Donoghue

There are more women editors than people realise. I think we're more able to keep our eye on what the film needs. Between men,…

— Thelma Schoonmaker

The bottom line is that female writers aren't being given enough opportunities by male producers.

— Chris O'Dowd