Jodie Foster supports female directors in Hollywood

Jodie Foster is definitely one of the more powerful female voices in

Hollywood

, having been an incredible actress who chose some of the best roles through her career. She's now even gone behind the camera as a director and has successfully done so. The actress was recently interviewed at the Tribeca Film Festival in a conversation about her next, 'Money Monster' and the actor-director successfully tackled questions on women directors. On being questioned about the lack of female directors in Hollywood, she said, "We're all looking forward to a day when we won't have to deal with this question anymore. Having been around and making movies for so long, the issues are way more complicated than the dialogue. Why are there no women directing mainstream franchises? It is such a simple question yet there are so many reasons. Some of them are about our psychology, our financial world, the global economy, any number of things. There are so many answers to that question that go back hundreds of years. It would be nice to have a more complex conversation and to be able to look at it as more than just a quota.'

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She added, 'It's not as cut-and-dry as everyone thinks it is. I don't think it's a plot to keep women down collectively; it's a bunch of people that weren't thinking about it, including a lot of female executives who have risen to the top and have not made a dent in [securing opportunities for women filmmakers.'

When she was quizzed about women directors having a different leadership quality than their male counterparts, she said, "I was never sure about that, but I see that now. Sometimes it's hard for people to understand how to treat me as a leader because they're sometimes waiting for me to punch them in the face, or sometimes they're waiting for me to say, 'Oh gee, you sound so smart, why don't I just do it your way?' I'm neither one or the other, and sometimes it's confusing for people. ' Do you treat them the way you treat men? Maybe you don't because we have different leadership styles.'