Cinema Quote by Natalie Portman

There's so many more female directors than when I started. That's encouraging.

— Sofia Coppola

When you go on a movie set, there used to be one woman: script supervisor. Now they were in all capacities in addition to…

— Robert Vaughn

I've worked with so few female directors.

— Andrea Riseborough

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

— Nina Jacobson

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

For me, each film, each script is like a little journey in itself, and I'm reinventing the wheel. It's like how do I make…

— Pawel Pawlikowski

I'm just hoping that as I get older, and as more and more movies get made by female directors, what we start to see…

— Karyn Kusama

I wrote 'Thelma & Louise' in 1988, and we shot it in 1990. Everyone kept saying, 'This is so groundbreaking... this is going to…

— Callie Khouri

I feel that I don't have to wait around for good scripts anymore, that I can get things moving more quickly. I can ring…

— Chiwetel Ejiofor

It's just such a different feeling on set when you work with a female director.

— Sophie Thatcher

Directing has completely changed the way I write and watch films.

— Christopher McQuarrie

I am open to working with new directors as long as the script excites me.

— Akshaye Khanna