Character Quote by Emma Donoghue

There are a lot of women screenwriters, but they are obviously outnumbered by men. And it still is a very much male-dominated industry.

— Elizabeth Meriwether

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

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

While complex acting roles are lacking for actresses, what's even more rare are female directors.

— Phoebe Robinson

If you just look at the number of roles for women versus the number of roles for men in any given film, there are…

— Gillian Jacobs

I'm still confounded by how few female directors there are. I don't get it.

— Stacey Snider

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

I think that there are a lot of male writers and directors in Hollywood, and a lot of the female characters you do see…

— Emily Ratajkowski

I don't understand why there aren't more powerful female directors. I don't have the answers, but I hope that things may start to shift…

— Sam Taylor-Johnson

There are, in terms of numbers, more leading roles for women in television than there are features. That's absolutely certain.

— Holly Hunter

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

— Julianna Margulies