About Quote by Mira Nair

I think it's hard for women to be directors, particularly in the feature world because, biologically, your peak career-making years are also your peak…

— Laura Ziskin

I think that women are uniquely suited to the job of directing, and I've seen it firsthand.

— Donna Langley

For a while, I thought, maybe I should direct, until I got to New York and saw the stupidity of that idea. If it's…

— Linda Hunt

To say you want to be a director is to risk sounding obnoxious, pretentious, arrogant, and I think women are more fearful of sounding…

— Nicole Holofcener

There are still people who have an issue working with a woman director. Women can be viewed as 'difficult' even though they work in…

— Lucy Walker

In my own experience of male and female directors, people have a much, much harder time taking a direct command from a woman. It's…

— Meryl Streep

I don't think about the gender thing very much. But when I speak at schools, I've had female students say to me afterwards, "I…

— Jennifer Yuh Nelson

People who see successful young women think that there must be an angle there. It's too good to be true that woman from a…

— Karren Brady

Why would people have confidence in a female director when there are so few?

— Jennifer Lawrence

I think that it is a total shame that we don't have more female directors or rather, more opportunities for them. It is unconscionable…

— Greta Lee

I think, to be a director, sometimes you need to have certain hunches - you have to believe in some gut feeling.

— Wong Kar-wai

I think it will be great if we have more female directors in the world.

— Michiel Huisman