Forever Quote by Ryan Murphy

I think in industries riddled with bias, you tend to hire women only if their previous work is very masculine, which is hilarious given…

— Lexi Alexander

I have always firmly believed that every director should be judged solely by their work, and not by their work based on their gender.…

— Kathryn Bigelow

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

It's tougher for women than men in Hollywood, period, if you ask me. As with most professions, women have generally not found equality with…

— Nazanin Boniadi

We need more female directors, we also need men to step up and identify with female characters and stories about women. We don't want…

— Geena Davis

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

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

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

I think it's good that we're talking about it, but I think there's still a gendered nature to the way that people see female…

— Susanna Fogel

The film industry is driven by male narrative. Heads of studios are often men, teeming with male executives everywhere you look, and so the…

— Trudie Styler

I looked at [Geena Davis] research and see things like 21 percent of filmmakers are women, only 31 percent of speaking roles in popular…

— Emma Watson

I'd love to see more women working as directors and producers. Today it's almost impossible to do it unless you are an actress or…

— Ida Lupino