Filmmaking Quote by Jill Soloway

Straight white males: that's the predominant moviegoing category, and the persistence of that is a dismaying maintenance of the status quo.

— Wesley Morris

The lack of racial diversity and gender diversity and the lack of female directors - those are not fashionable issues. And they're not issues…

— Cate Blanchett

There are still so many movies made starring 50 men and one woman! A white male actor should never be allowed to complain about…

— Patricia Clarkson

There are [in Hollywood] some endemic problems and some things that happen over and over again. There's the problem of representation of basically anybody…

— Karina Longworth

I think, almost, the film industry thinks that by making gay characters super masculine, it's an attempt at saying being gay is OK if…

— Josie Totah

I'm not interested in going to see films that massively overrepresent men over women. It's lik,e how much more have we got to say…

— Romola Garai

It is very, very, very difficult for an American actor who wants a film career to be open about his sexuality. And even more…

— Ian Mckellen

The film world is far more male-dominated. I mean, the numbers are staggering at the level of how many people on set there are,…

— Emma Donoghue

Dividing everybody into genders and sexuality and races and religions, and I think it's important to have films out there, to have discussions out…

— Chiwetel Ejiofor

I think if you look at Hollywood as a whole and the type of content that they put out over the years, it's pretty…

— Mike Jackson

Sexism is real and it persists in film and television. I've seen female directors openly undermined by male cinematographers in front of the entire…

— Liz W. Garcia

One of my pet peeves - and I totally get that this is relatable - is that every queer movie I've seen, really, is…

— Katy O'Brian