Cinema Quote by Jessica Chastain

A lot of people started asking me about this woman director thing, which I never thought about before. And I'd never really thought about…

— Sophia Takal

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

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

— Nina Jacobson

I love directors who aren't going back to the stereotypes, who are helping write and create roles for women that are not in the…

— Sheryl Lee

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

I've worked with so few female directors.

— Andrea Riseborough

I have worked with a lot of really great women directors: Ana Kokkinos; Cate Shortland, who just recently directed a film called 'Lore;' another…

— Deborah Mailman

It's not that I only want to make films about women, but from my experience, I have been very interested in the women who…

— Sebastian Lelio

Without the benefit of Google, ask anybody to name more than five female filmmakers that have made more than three films. It's shockingly hard.

— Leslye Headland

Every casting director I've met is a woman.

— Cameron Diaz

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

— Phoebe Robinson