"I've been able to work on shows with amazing role models, amazing actors, incredible female filmmakers"
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The key phrase is “female filmmakers.” In a business still addicted to treating women behind the camera as a novelty category, Sweeney slips in a quiet corrective: her career hasn’t been made only by male gatekeepers. That matters because her celebrity often arrives pre-packaged through a male gaze discourse she didn’t invent and can’t fully control. Here, she redraws the frame. The credit goes to mentors, craft, and a professional ecosystem that includes women with authority.
It’s also a subtle rebuttal to the lone-genius narrative Hollywood loves. “I’ve been able to work on shows” foregrounds the set as a workplace, not a dream factory. The subtext: I’m not here by accident; I’ve been trained in public, in serious rooms, with serious people. In an era when young actresses are expected to be simultaneously brand, lightning rod, and spokesperson, this quote is a neat survival move: warm, non-combative, and quietly strategic.
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APA Style (7th ed.)
Sweeney, Sydney. (2026, January 11). I've been able to work on shows with amazing role models, amazing actors, incredible female filmmakers. FixQuotes. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/ive-been-able-to-work-on-shows-with-amazing-role-183790/
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Sweeney, Sydney. "I've been able to work on shows with amazing role models, amazing actors, incredible female filmmakers." FixQuotes. January 11, 2026. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/ive-been-able-to-work-on-shows-with-amazing-role-183790/.
MLA Style (9th ed.)
"I've been able to work on shows with amazing role models, amazing actors, incredible female filmmakers." FixQuotes, 11 Jan. 2026, https://fixquotes.com/quotes/ive-been-able-to-work-on-shows-with-amazing-role-183790/. Accessed 12 Feb. 2026.


