Women In Film Quotes

#1. Women in Film and Television is such an important body.

Sarah Gavron

#2. Most of the women in film are there to be beautiful to the man.

Eva Green

#3. Every single one of us who has been a 'Woman in Film' for more than five minutes is sick of the phrase 'Women in Film.'

Lynda Obst

#4. I like women in film. I like women in general, but I especially like to show them on film. They are not ciphers.

Nicolas Roeg

#5. My interest in Women in Film came from attending the Crystal Awards in 1998 where Meryl Streep and producers Gale Anne Hurd and Lucy Fisher were honored with the annual award.

Sharon Lawrence

#6. I think Kellie Martin, Reese Witherspoon and Claire Danes represent the future for women in film, and I would be honored to share the stage with any one of them.

Fred Savage

#7. Every time an actress is celebrated for her great work, I cheer. For the more brilliant their performance, the more the audience demands stories about women ... And as we all know: a great year for women in film, is just a great year for film.

Jessica Chastain

#8. Joss Whedon is a hero of mine, and what he's done for women in film and television, particularly when it comes to writing female roles that would typically go to a man, is awesome.

Bryce Dallas Howard

#9. There's a great deal of women in film school. I was not the only woman in my class at UCLA. When I went through the Sundance program, it was half women and half men.

Gina Prince-Bythewood

#10. I applaud Women in Film - not only for celebrating the successes of women, but for providing a safety network to mentor women and to discuss the particular issues that arise in a very male-dominated industry.

Cate Blanchett

#11. Usually when you see females in movies, they feel like they have these metallic structures around them, they are caged by male energy.

Bjork

#12. Gentlemen. You are looking at the true Abraham Lincoln of Arabia. And in order to end our internal bickering - our civil war, if you will - I have solicited your aid.

Leonard Leventon

#13. I think that the audience wants to see women being put into real situations where they can relate to them, rather than seeing some glamorous woman in a 'Bond' film.

Anna Camp

#14. With In the Company of Men, the misogynist label stuck early and firmly. In the end, it probably did hurt the film a bit, because getting women into the theaters was difficult.

Neil LaBute

#15. Then when I went to Iraq and saw the strength and character the men and women in our military service exhibit every day and their belief in what they're doing, I knew I wanted to get that on film and share it with everyone. They are my inspiration.

Joe Nichols

#16. Next time
we will roll out the red carpet for you in the United States of Arabia, my brethren!

Leonard Leventon

#17. I was shooting for a Telugu film at the Taj Mahal in Agra, and there were all these women and children pointing and screaming, 'Rowdy Rathore.' But I am not really 'Rowdy Rathore.' I am the guy who did the original version of 'Rowdy Rathore' six years ago.

Ravi Teja

#18. Hollywood shines by virtue of light within.

A.D. Posey

#19. I had the experience last year of directing my first feature while I had a 1-year-old son and while I was also pregnant, so I am now well aware of the difficulties women who are rearing children face when they're also trying to make headway in mainstream of film.

Diablo Cody

#20. Comedy and drama are less ageist media for women than stuff like light entertainment. But in TV or film, women have to be more pleasing on the eye than men.

Sharon Horgan

#21. There was an interesting article in Los Angeles Magazine about women directors. A woman director makes one bad independent film and her career is over. Guys tend to get an opportunity to learn from their mistakes.

Dick Wolf

#22. Our peace is our purpose.

A.D. Posey

#23. If you watch a film from beginning to end, with no women in it, it's really difficult.

Evangeline Lilly

#24. Women remain dramatically under-represented as characters in film when compared to their representation in the U.S. population.

Sharon Lawrence

#25. When I graduated from Brown after majoring in women's studies, I made my first PBS documentary, 'Women of Substance.' My first feature documentary was called 'American Hollow,' which I did for HBO and was at the Sundance Film Festival.

Rory Kennedy

#26. It's sad that women characters have lost so much ground in popular movies. Didn't 'Thelma and Louise' prove that women want to see women doing things on film? Thelma and Louise were in a classic car; they were being chased by cops; they shot up a truck - and women loved it.

Robin Quivers

#27. We as women have a voice and we are decision makers in what film to see. We always support our boyfriends and husbands by going to see the male dominated films, but we don't compel them to see films with female casts.

Octavia Spencer

#28. The most attention I get is in a book store or video shop when I go to the foreign film section. Sometimes that can be fun, but usually those women want to talk about philosophy or something very dense. It's not like they're tearing off my shirt, you know.

Tobey Maguire

#29. Women can be pressured to be perfect in many ways. And in our efforts to be "responsible" in every way, you might lose time and energy. If you truly want to direct [a film], you may have to let go of pleasing everyone on a consistent basis.

Jennifer Phang

#30. I would like the film to make people think about the place of women in the world - the advances and setbacks that they have experienced these past years in terms of their freedom.

Catherine Corsini

#31. I rarely meet men in real life as extraordinary as ones on film, and rarely see women on film as extraordinary as ones I know in real life

Jen Richards

#32. I've always been fascinated by Asian culture, and I love that women can play the lead in a horror film.

Sarah Michelle Gellar

#33. The only time I use women in films is when they're naked or dead.

Joel Silver

#34. I think 'Saturday Night Live', starting in the 1970s, really gave women an outlet to be funny. A lot of those women went on to have film careers, from Kristen Wiig now to Tina Fey and Gilda Radner.

Emma Stone

#35. When I was a kid and going to the movies I was overwhelmed by the way women were always second-class citizens in the film.

Brit Marling

#36. A problem was the lack of cooperation of the Afghan community itself. The women, though living in Iran, were under cover and not willing to participate in the film, and none of the ethnic groups were willing to work together or be together.

Mohsen Makhmalbaf

#37. Some films do portray women in their 40s well, and some other films don't. Some films are written by women, so maybe there's a little more accuracy there.

Julie Delpy

#38. Since I was a baby my goal was to be on TV because film was just impossible - you never got any Asian women in Western cinema. I grew up wanting to be in 'East-Enders' because film wasn't even a dream. The community were very much like, 'How can you want to act? It's such a low-class profession.'

Archie Panjabi

#39. The women executives in the film industry have the power to say, 'No,' but few of them have the power to say, 'Yes.'

Melanie Mayron

#40. Film schools are now nearly 50-50 male-female, and women are also well represented at festivals and in indie film. But what happens to them after they direct their first film or short? Where do they go? They certainly aren't being given the same opportunities as their male counterparts.

Lesli Linka Glatter

#41. The [film] business is run by men, and they're basically interested in their own species, and they're not so interested in women belonging to the human race.

Bette Midler

#42. Some feminists have this party-line attitude, and they can be very extremist. The most enlightened characters in my film are women.

Lina Wertmuller

#43. Before the Beatles, America was musically a very conservative country. You can see film footage of people at a baseball game, they all had hats and ties on, and the women were dressed up like they were going to church. That was the America that I started getting interested in musically.

Don McLean

#44. I started watching so many different types of women, saw all the complexities of them, all the ways and the look and shapes they could be, and I felt it was missing for me in American film. I didn't see anybody I was watching in movies that felt like me. I felt rather tortured and lonely about it.

Brie Larson

#45. Independent film is taking risks in all areas. It's not just about complicated women.

Anne Heche

#46. I am slightly offended by the way busy working women my age are presented in film. I'm not, like, always barking orders into my hands-free phone device and telling people constantly, "I have no time for this!" I didn't completely forget how to be nice and feminine because I have a career.

Mindy Kaling

#47. Editing is a natural extension of the collage making. It's actually one of the few areas that women were able to excel in in the film industry from the beginning.

Rachel True

#48. The suffragettes were women of action. Their motto was 'Deeds not Words,' and the film reflects that with a number of big set pieces, from the smashing of windows in central London to a riot at the Houses of Parliament.

Sarah Gavron

#49. I'm really aware that in fiction, women are pretty much equal. There's a lot of very successful women novelists. Not so much [for women writers working] in film.

Emma Donoghue

#50. What I think is new is the wealth of roles for actual women in television and in film. That's what I think is revolutionary and evolutionary.

Maggie Gyllenhaal

#51. I just want to keep writing characters who are interesting and complicated people and interesting roles for women, in TV or film or in theater. I think that's like my 'Blues Brothers' mission.

Elizabeth Meriwether

#52. You heard me cry long before I knew my voice.

A.D. Posey

#53. I just think it was time [in THe Neon Demon]to do a film about women. But not just women, I wanted to do a movie about a teenage girl. It was a great counter to the masculinity of "Drive."

Nicolas Winding Refn

#54. It's important for me to play women who can overcome adversity, make change, and take control of their lives. I think it's a great time for women in TV and film in general, and I want to help tell these stories.

Beth Riesgraf

#55. I think it's great to be talked about as a woman film-maker. It's part of who I am; it affects me daily. I want it to be part of the conversation. I'm for any scheme or initiative that gives women a way in.

Sarah Gavron

#56. When I started my first film, there were three women directors in France. Their films were OK, but I was different. It's like when you start to jump and you put the pole very high - you have to jump very high. I thought, I have to use cinema as a language.

Agnes Varda

#57. More women have to be in charge of studios, so that they can greenlight films with women.

Jennifer Lawrence

#58. I think it's pretty obvious that women's stories are not necessarily being told in Hollywood and women are not necessarily being put in the leadership positions they deserve in mainstream film.

Diablo Cody

#59. Yes, the Bechdel Test. It's named for Allison Bechdel, who is a comic book creator. The test is, are there two named women in the film? Do they talk to each other? And is it about something other than a man? I actually think the Bechdel Test is a little advanced for us sometimes.

Kelly Sue DeConnick

#60. Women have to take more control of their careers. They can't just wait to be cast in a film.

Richard LaGravenese

#61. I'm not comfortable with walking the red carpet in a tuxedo and seeing all the women with their boobs pushed up and all the men dressed as penguins - particularly when the subject of your film is the nature of violence and humanity.

William Hurt

#62. Love is alive when there's music in your heart.

A.D. Posey

#63. Tina Fey is part of a generation of women who have changed the face of comedy at 'Second City,' 'SNL,' in sitcoms and in film.

Janeane Garofalo

#64. We are not going to confine women to the home, cover their heads, lengthen their skirts, or beat up gay people, prohibit alcohol, censure film, theater, and literature, and codify tolerance in order to respect the overly sensitive whims of a few sanctimonious persons.

Pascal Bruckner

#65. To try something longer, I entered a half-hour radio drama contest with the national public broadcaster, CBC. To my surprise, I won. And that opened doors in film and television, because that broadcaster was looking to cultivate new Canadian talent, especially women who could write.

Karen Walton

#66. It's wonderful to be appreciated for being quirky, and to see Zooey Deschanel and the quirky, indie film types get mainstream play is amazing for women, because women are much more complicated than what we've see on TV in the past.

Mayim Bialik

#67. Every single line, every single thing has to be fought over. There's kind of like an intrinsic doubt from absolutely everyone in my crew, my producer, everyone. It's not just the film industry - it's a worldwide thing. It's the culture of the world to doubt women.

Patricia Riggen

#68. The thought went through my mind that we should film ourselves in our sexual act, and project our frenzied copulation permanently onto the walls of the tea-room, as a lesson to wake up the boring people who drank tea here, and to show them what life was really all about.

Fiona Thrust

#69. In my experience as a director, I think there is obviously something of the way men - maybe that's a common point with Shirin - the way men see women in the film, and the way these two characters see each other.

Abbas Kiarostami

#70. I hear you in the morning sun.

A.D. Posey

#71. Drizzle happiness wherever you go.

A.D. Posey

#72. I think the roles in television are better for women right now. At this point, I don't want to continue doing the same things I've been doing in film because it's very limited.

Sandra Oh

#73. The roles for women in theatre are much better than they are in film.

Kim Cattrall

#74. I know how gratifying it is not only to work in film but to be acknowledged by peers; producing '9 to 5' was an opportunity that I valued precisely because it's so rarely in the hands of women.

Jane Fonda

#75. Happiness is individualized. Don't box it in. Let it fly.

A.D. Posey

#76. It sounds so weird, but I'm totally pro-aging. If you look at the film industry, it's so funny how it's so much more accepted that actors begin their prime in their forties or fifties, and for women it's so different. I think it's time to change that. Aging is a beautiful thing.

Michiel Huisman

#77. I think women are amazing and women's friendships are like a sisterhood and we should see more of it in television and film.

Laurie Holden

#78. Women have a certain sexuality, and I think their bodies are beautiful, and I'm not embarrassed to explore that in a film. But there are things you get offered that are vulgar and violent - just like there's a side of me that's vulgar and violent.

Angelina Jolie

#79. Women? Well, they are gods. They will always fascinate me. As for rope, I always have it with me. Even when I forget my film, the rope is always in my bag. Since I can't tie their hearts up, I tie their bodies up instead.

Nobuyoshi Araki

#80. The only thing that I can do is hold a mirror in front of men and women, in front of the viewer in the theater, to reflect. There is nothing but reflection that I could intend to offer the viewer of the film.

Abbas Kiarostami

#81. One of the common themes you will read in interview after interview is the call to keep fighting for your vision. This is a message to women directors, producers, writers - anyone who wants to work in the business. Your voice counts. Your vision matters.

Melissa Silverstein

#82. I started the film [Hostel Part II]with the girls in an art class and there's a nude male model. People think that women are objectified, well here you go! Here's a man being objectivized but now it's under the guise of art.

Eli Roth

#83. There is a little bit of everybody in everybody.

Leonard Leventon

#84. Any film I do is not going to change the way black women have been portrayed, or black people have been portrayed, in cinema since the days of D.W. Griffith.

Spike Lee

#85. I do find that when I see women who flesh out the television or film world and make it look more like the world I actually live in, I gravitate towards those characters.

Allison Tolman

#86. We, as consumers, are not completely satisfied with our scrutiny of women's appearances in TV and film. We also find it enjoyable to pit women against each other in fashion Hunger Games.

Mindy Kaling

#87. It's terrifying. Women make their first film, their second film, and then it's like a nightmare, right, to make the third or fourth? I mean, it's almost like men can have three films in a row that don't do that well and keep on going.

Julie Delpy