Cannes Quote by Salma Hayek

The truth is, most of those female stories that are contending for Oscars are directed by men. Let's be honest. I looked at the…

— Catherine Hardwicke

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've always been slightly hesitant about generalizing movies made by men and women being different in their nature; I think movies by each director…

— Susanne Bier

When I was growing up in the '50s, I had never heard of a "woman film director," so I did not consider it as…

— Chris Hegedus

Talent has no gender. People are hiring young male directors right out of film school, off of a student film or off of a…

— Gina Prince-Bythewood

A woman director is not obliged to make a feminist film. She can make what she wants, a thriller, an action film, a comedy,…

— Shabana Azmi

I can't tell you how many incredible directors I long to work with, but then I look at their IMDb page, and they haven't…

— Jessica Chastain

While complex acting roles are lacking for actresses, what's even more rare are female directors.

— Phoebe Robinson

Filmmaking is not about gender. You cannot ask a president in a festival like Cannes to have, like, five movies directed by women and…

— Marion Cotillard

There are very few roles you actually get to perform for women. There aren't many woman-oriented films made in Bollywood.

— Neha Sharma

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

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