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We Need More Female Directors, We Also Need Men To Step Up And Identify With Female Characters And Stories About Women. We Don't Want To Create A Ghetto Where Women Have To Do Movies About Women. To Assume Stories About Women Need To Be Told By A Woman Isn't Necessarily True, Just As Stories About Men Don't Need A Male Director.

-Geena Davis

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We Need More Female Directors, We Also

Geena Davis

We Need More Female Directors, We Also Need Men To Step Up And Identify With Female Characters And Stories About Women. We Don't Want To Create A Ghetto Where Women Have To Do Movies About Women. To Assume Stories About Women Need To Be Told By A Woman Isn't Necessarily True, Just As Stories About Men Don't Need A Male Director.

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