Action Quote by Emma Thompson

I would like the film to make people think about the place of women in the world - the advances and setbacks that they…

— Catherine Corsini

I have a film I want to direct. Gena Rowlands was going to do it with me a long time ago. It's about an…

— William Hurt

I would love to write a script where the main character is a woman. I know I can direct a film where the main…

— Philippe Falardeau

[The film Woman Walks Ahead] is from a long time ago. I wrote that ages ago. It looks gorgeous and Jessica [Chastain] is so…

— Steven Knight

It's kind of a subversive act to tell a story of a woman past a certain age, to develop a four-hour movie based on…

— Frances McDormand

But John Landis wrote a good relationship which is really what the film's about. A very straightforward young woman who's very sure of herself…

— Jenny Agutter

Women over 35 have great stories, and the actresses are there, but you can't get the movies made.

— Bonnie Bedelia

I am done with the cliched heroine roles. I can't go to work without a challenge. I want to do films that drive me,…

— Samantha Akkineni

There's to be a film about my life. I can give this as an exclusive now. Meryl Streep was offered the part but, no,…

— Barry Humphries

I don't start a film with the heroine but with the cinema subject. If there is a woman in the story, she has to…

— Satyajit Ray

Film is so much about that intensity of focus that there always needs to be some tension and some forward motion. The novel goes…

— Lenny Abrahamson

I've written something and I would like to have my first film directed by the time I'm 30.

— Ryan Phillippe