Female Filmmakers Quotes & Sayings

I spent 2010-2012 in Stockholm, trying to figure things out. I caught up on life! At the end of 2012, the relationship I was in ended, and I took the first plane to L.A. where my Swedish label has been setting up base. I felt so much more inspired to write and record than I had ever been, and the songs just started coming. — Erik Hassle

Follow your heart, your instincts. People might try to dissuade you from your passion, but no one can live your life but you. — Olympia Dukakis

Along the way, female filmmakers will have the feeling that they're not good enough. And that's really just a result of being "otherized" from the moment they're born. Keep an eye out for all those insecurities, and even expect them. Borrow white male privilege and just move through the world as if it was created for you. You have to kind of talk yourself into an imaginary space where the world is on your side and expects you to speak and wants you to speak. You have to create that space for yourself over and over again. Every hour sometimes. — Jill Soloway

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

I was under contract with Hitchcock before I even met him. They wouldn't tell me anything about the film, or who was working on it. They had all sorts of excuses as to why they couldn't tell me anything. — Tippi Hedren

Teenagers are free verse walking around on two legs. — Dorothy Allison

Truth and nonviolence demand that no human being may debar himself from serving any other human being, no matter how sinful he may be. — Mahatma Gandhi

I think for female filmmakers a big issue is making their second and third films. — Ava DuVernay

There are, apparently, persons who are deeply afraid of their own emotions, particularly the painful ones. Grief, regret, sadness. Sadness especially, perhaps. Dolores describes these persons as afraid of obliteration, emotional engulfment. As if something truly and thoroughly felt would have no end or bottom. Would become infinite and engulf them. I am saying that such persons usually have a very fragile sense of themselves as persons. As existing at all, — David Foster Wallace

I'm not an acting monk or anything. I'm not, like, the most well-adjusted actor. — Adam Driver

I think that until a filmmaker knows that about him- or herself, the films they make will just be copies of other people's work. It's important for anyone who wants to make films for a living, but I think perhaps it has an even greater weight for female filmmakers since they represent a much smaller percentage of the population. Their voices are fewer so they must be even stronger. — Megan Griffiths

Why don't we save time and you just tell me what I want? — Chris Noth

You've got me feeling like you're that something I've been missing. — Christina Aguilera

I have always disliked the fierce competitive spirit embodied in that highly intellectual game. — Albert Einstein

If there is a God he's a great loathsome spider in the darkness. — John Fowles

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

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

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

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

I cannot explain it; but when difficulties arise, I am not perplexed or doubtful. I know how to meet them. — Anne Sullivan

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

I know, you were much closer to the painter than any of us. In spite of that, your lips, too, will want to curl up into a smile. There are levels of tragedy whose mind-numbing properties can only be checked by laughter, and what story does not contain an inkling of the grotesque? When we Germans will have learnt to laugh like the Gauls, we will truly be the rulers of this earth; even more so than before, one might add."

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Female directors really do need to support each other. Too many times I've been led to believe that my direct competition was other women, as if there can be only a handful of successful female filmmakers a year. That conversation, that perception, needs to change. Women are the people who have helped me make films I love, and I want to be that kind of strength to other women. — Jennifer Phang

I calculated how easy it would be to pull a chair next to the windowsill, climb up, and simply allow my body to fall four stories to the street. Then an inner voice broke in, There's got to be something more. Go find it. — Debra Moffitt

When things are not going the way you want them to go, you start to press. — Gaby Sanchez