Women Filmmakers Quotes

#1. In our society, as women filmmakers, we are expected to make films that empower women and that raise awareness about women's issues. That is a huge misconception.

Esra Saydam

#2. I think women should support each other's work, encourage each other's work, help develop each other's voices and I think, ultimately, when we can stop having the conversation about 'women filmmakers', and just talk about 'filmmakers', then we'll know we've really gotten somewhere.

Jennifer Westfeldt

#3. When I was a young filmmaker starting out, I was really snobby about all the affirmative action for women filmmakers because I felt it should be about your talent, and I made a film that won awards, and people wanted me.

Gillian Armstrong

#4. The world needs more women filmmakers, so we have to keep encouraging ourselves and one another, and eventually things must get easier for us.

Lucy Walker

#5. 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

#6. Our goal is to upgrade the life of China's middle class. We all want to live better.

Guo Guangchang

#7. There is no house more beautiful than the house you happily live in!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#8. The Voting Rights Act of 1965 was indeed a vital instrument of democracy, ensuring the integrity and reliability of a democratic process that we as a Country hold so dear.

Charles B. Rangel

#9. Online publication is fine with me, in part because I hope to collect those stories later.

Gene Wolfe

#10. We don't want to be our own niche. We're filmmakers like everybody. How many years in a row are we going to talk about the fact that we make films and we are women? Enough already.

Nancy Meyers

#11. He thought for a while of Mithradates, whose system learned to thrive on poison. He cheated assassins, who made the mistake of using small doses, and was pickled, not destroyed.
Tutto fa brodo.

Saul Bellow

#12. There is no love of God without patience, and no patience without lowliness and sweetness of spirit.

John Wesley

#13. When you educate yourself about clitoredectomies, infibulation, forced prostitution, rape as a war tactic, patriarchal religions, women painters, filmmakers, poets, writers, activists, politicians, sex-industry workers, historians, archelogoists and musicians, that's self-protection.

Inga Muscio

#14. 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

#15. When I do encounter young women or aspiring filmmakers who tell me that I've inspired them or that my work means something to them, that's amazing. That's really exciting!

Diablo Cody

#16. It is natural for me to ignore autograph seekers, but God wants me to share my testimony card with them and be loving. That power and initiative comes from him.

Ben Zobrist

#17. He took off for the mysterious end of the canal where, moving the handle with ever-increasing speed, he has been running, insanely, to this day, steadily decreasing his volume in the hope that he may, one day, penetrate and disappear into micro-infinity.

Urmuz

#18. It is not so much where my motivation comes from but rather how it manages to survive.

Louise Bourgeois

#19. I think our Savior wants us to be happy on this earth. That's why we're here is to have joy.

Shay Carl