Appearing Quote by Federico Fellini

I would argue that something dark is lurking between the sexes, and that it is seeping out into cinema.

— Romola Garai

My movies are very often violent and dark, but there's a spectrum of light, and that light is coming from the women.

— Denis Villeneuve

Films made by women belong to the history of cinema; it's just that we get erased pretty quickly.

— Celine Sciamma

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

My films are often characterized by the lack of women present in them, except for this last one [Once Upon a Time in America].

— Sergio Leone

But I notice that there is a lack of darkness in my movies and I don't know where that comes from.

— Lasse Hallstrom

Movies will always be movies, and you can never replace that feeling of when the lights go down and the image comes up.

— Ralph Macchio

Our films are now portraying the real woman of today, and thankfully, female characters are pretty close to reality. This is a welcome change,…

— Supriya Pathak

Movies are, like sharp sunlight, merciless; we do not imagine, we view.

— John Updike

During the course of a day, some dark feeling comes, maybe some sadness comes, some thrill, some great happiness, some strange humor. Cinema can…

— David Lynch

I didn't see myself as a woman doing film but as a radical film-maker who was a woman.

— Agnes Varda

Cinema has the power to change the society. Through my films, the kind of characters I have played and will play, I am trying…

— Bhumi Pednekar