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Maybe studios don't want to see women acting in a way that isn't womanly. Maybe people don't.

— Kristen Wiig

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

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

There's no doubt that the patriarchy that we live in also controls the movie industry. The heads of the studios are men, and it's…

— Ellen Burstyn

American commercial cinema has long been dominated by men, but I don’t think there has ever been another time when women have been as…

— Manohla Dargis

The movie industry is failing women. And until the industry starts making serious changes, nothing is going to change.

— Manohla Dargis

People are saying we need more females in our industry and we need more female-driven stories, but that takes the men of bankable star…

— Rosamund Pike

Get more women producers, writers, directors. Why should we expect men to do it for us? They can't

— Kathleen Turner

I think for female filmmakers a big issue is making their second and third films.

— Ava DuVernay

There are more women editors than people realise. I think we're more able to keep our eye on what the film needs. Between men,…

— Thelma Schoonmaker

There are a lot of women screenwriters, but they are obviously outnumbered by men. And it still is a very much male-dominated industry.

— Elizabeth Meriwether

Roles written for women are so much more complex on television. The film world is becoming quite flimsy for women.

— Julianna Margulies