1.  Do you think women feel that they can approach you more easily than they would a male director?

2.  And Bigelow demonstrates that she can be as raw, brutal and edgy as any male director around.

3.  A male director would take a barrage of flak for coming to comparable conclusions.

4.  Ronnie Scheib, curator of the Kino series, places Lupino with postwar male directors like Nicholas Ray, Sam Fuller and Robert Aldrich.

5.  Itami was also highly unusual for a Japanese male director in consistently portraying strong women.

6.  Itami was unusual for a Japanese male director in that his films consistently featured strong women.

7.  Male directors can move from making music videos to action films without stopping for a decaf latte.

8.  She argued that society accepts sex scenes from male directors but expects her, as a woman, to shy away from them.