Colleagues Quote by Pirjo Honkasalo

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

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 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

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

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

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

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

Usually male directors have to use foul language to get the job done. But I never came down to that level as being a…

— Divya Khosla Kumar

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

My biggest advice for women writer/directors is to always be attempting to make work that avoids pandering to the conceptions that the industry has…

— Rania Attieh

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