Keira Knightley on need for more women writers, DoPs in Hollywood: We really must push for representation

Keira Knightley is hugely supportive of female filmmakers in Hollywood but says she has no plans to go behind the camera. The 33-year-old actor believes women directors can do a better job with bringing the female point of view on screen. [caption id=“attachment_5194511” align=“alignnone” width=“825”] Keira Knightley attends the Colette screening on day 6 of TIFF 2018. Photo by Evan Agostini/Invision/AP[/caption] “No (I don’t plan to direct). But there’s a lot of talented female directors. I think that they need to be supported. I think that female point of view is very important. “I think we need more (directors of photography), more producers, and we need more writers, so I think we really need to push for representation,” Knightley told T_he Hollywood Reporter_. The actor will next be seen in Colette. She is stars in the film as renowned French novelist Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette, who was nominated for a Nobel Prize for literature in 1948, and is famed for writing “Gigi”, a novel about a young Parisian girl being groomed for a career as a courtesan.