"It wouldn't be very nice to select a film because the film is not good but it is directed by a woman," he added.
Last year, four female directors made the main competition lineup, including Britain's Lynne Ramsay and Australia's Julia Leigh. The festival's critics say this year's choice suggests that was a blip, rather than a trend.
The French feminist group La Barbe took the festival to task for excluding women with a petition published in Le Monde and The Guardian newspapers.
The letter, whose signatories included filmmaker Virginie Despentes and writer Nancy Huston, said sarcastically that the lineup "sends a powerful message ... Above all, never let the girls think they can one day have the presumptuousness to make movies or to climb those famous Festival Palace steps, except when attached to the arm of a Prince Charming."
It's not that women are in short supply at Cannes. They abound — most prominently on-screen and on the red carpet. The French Riviera film festival is synonymous with female glamour, from Sophia Loren and Monica Bellucci to Penelope Cruz and Angelina Jolie.
Women also are plentiful in off-screen cinema roles, from the traditional enclaves of hair and makeup to film editing, where experts like Martin Scorsese's longtime collaborator Thelma Schoonmaker are considered among the best in the business.
"There are a lot of women (in editing) because they are close to the directors, and the directors are men," said Colette Farrugia, a film editor with 30 years of experience in the business.
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