"There is this idea that women at the top are ‘killers’. But my premise in the film is that if women occupied decision-making positions in significant numbers, if they didn’t need to fight their way to the top, there would be fewer killers. That’s why Emmanuelle is not a killer. I was speaking to female journalists when the movie came out and, when I said it was important to have more women at the top, they said: “Oh yes, like Thatcher!”. Can you imagine? It’s as though I’d mentioned men in power and they’d said: “Oh yes, Hitler!”. Enough already…" a proposito della protogonista del suo film Numéro Une del 2017.

(Tonie Marshall, attrice, sceneggiatrice e regista; Neuilly-sur-Seine, 29 novembre 1951 – Parigi, 12 marzo 2020)