Female Filmmakers Quotes

#1. I thing for female filmmakers a big issue is making their second and third films. You see the statistics, and the dropoff on the second and third [films] , are dire.

Ava DuVernay

#2. I think it is kind of depressing how few female filmmakers there are. I think it is in general depressing how few women there are in ... important positions in society

Susanne Bier

#3. I would give female filmmakers the same advice I'd give any filmmaker; believe in your vision, believe in your team, believe in yourself.

Leanne Pooley

#4. Without the benefit of Google, ask anybody to name more than five female filmmakers that have made more than three films. It's shockingly hard.

Leslye Headland

#5. It doesn't matter if you're the smartest person in the room: If you're not someone who people want to be around, you won't get far. Likewise for helping those in line behind you. I take seriously my role as a mentor to young female filmmakers - I make sure my time is tithed.

Melissa Rosenberg

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

Ava DuVernay

#7. I think that one of the things that Christianity really needs, and the church really needs, is credibility. People need to be able to trust us and they need to believe we really want to help them and that it's not just, I'm-doing-this-for-me type thing.

Joyce Meyer

#8. It was the immutable tango between the Dumper and the Dumpee: the coming and the seeing and the conquering and the returning home.

John Green

#9. Old unhealthy thoughts can block off inspiration and motivation. Dropping them releases a strong flow of power through the mind.

Norman Vincent Peale

#10. The power of prayer is so profound that it can assuage our emotions. It calms the mind, dilutes all our worries, gives an anchor to fears and endows us with a remarkable peace of mind.

Balroop Singh

#11. Reduce the influence of religion upon your life.

Sunday Adelaja

#12. I don't believe ever in shared office spaces. Peter talks a little bit about this, every good startup is a cult. It's very hard to create a cult if you're sharing space with people.

Keith Rabois

#13. Do your little bit of good where you are; it's those little bits of good put together that overwhelm the world.

Desmond Tutu

#14. The ills attributed to an anthropomorphic abstraction called "society" may be laid more realistically at the door of Everyman. Utopia must spring in the private bosom before it can flower into civic virtue, inner reforms leading to outer ones. A man who has reformed himself will reform thousands.

Paramahansa Yogananda

#15. Just don't leave anything unsaid to the people who matter. It only takes a few words to change your world.

James Hannah

#16. I think every woman in their life wants to give a good face smack.

Mallory Jansen

#17. I am blessed to live and work in [France,] a country where women filmmakers are by and large not unfairly treated. So I wouldn't have much to contribute regarding issues faced as a female director.

Anne Fontaine