Directors Quote by Jennifer Yuh Nelson

I don't really consider myself a female director, and I don't want to do so for other women. Female directors are just directors.

— Alante Kavaite

I think I happened to work with sort of a bunch of slightly difficult male directors when I was a kid. I've since worked…

— Gaby Hoffmann

Look what I know about directing; is it goes beyond gender. You might see some qualities that are inherently female in the great male…

— Niki Caro

Being a female director become as professional as your male colleagues and forget the whole question about being female. You are female anyway and…

— Pirjo Honkasalo

I think it's good that we're talking about it, but I think there's still a gendered nature to the way that people see female…

— Susanna Fogel

Most people view female directors as female only, that we only deal with women's issues and women characters. Although most of my films have…

— Shahad Ameen

I'm a director first and foremost, and I hope that the fact that I'm female is just one of the many things that informs…

— Karyn Kusama

If you're good at your job, you're good at your job regardless of being male, female, whatever. Either you're a good director or you're…

— KiKi Layne

For me, a director is a director immaterial of the gender. At the end of the day, the audience is only interested in watching…

— Boman Irani

Hmm, can I be obvious and say there is probably a double standard for male vs. female directors? Sadly, I think that's actually the…

— Lynn Shelton

When we don't say 'male director,' then why call them 'female directors?'

— Jaideep Ahlawat

I feel like directing is more about who the individual is rather than if they're a man or a woman. It's kind of hard…

— Reed Morano