Quotes About Representation

After Kidulthood, I was called in to a meeting and told that I didn't write women very well. I was very annoyed.

I'm still trying to do films about black women.

I think we're much more comfortable with women as policy makers.We're not there yet, but the comfort zone is much wider than it was when I came.

Why is a movie starring women considered a gimmick and a movie starring men is just a normal movie?

When guys see a movie starring women, they go, "That must be filled with these characters I see in these movies who are such a drag." And that's just bad for everybody.

Bad women's comedies are made by men who didn't consult enough women.

I look forward to the day when there are more women politicians accepted in their own right and not as women politicians.

Unfortunately, there's a lack of roles for women of color, so you actually have to be the engineer creating some of those roles.

I told my agents that I love Holly Hunter and Frances McDormand and all of these women who are good at doing comedies, as well as dramas.

I think for a long time it seemed like working in an art form and being a feminist meant portraying women in a perfect, angelic light. And there's nothing feminist about that.

"Legally Blonde 2" wasn't written specifically for a black woman.

"Southland" was not written for a black woman.

Videogames need more women and are too reliant on male, stubble-covered heroes.

We as women are always watching movies and if you want to be cool you have to identify with the man in the movie.

I think it's very repressive for a woman to be constantly told that she has to make films about women to better represent women, but then the reverse is not found.

Women don't question themselves when they enter into a story that has male characters, but men do question the validity of a female narrative.

I get quite disappointed that we're still telling stories that I think are problematic in terms of what they're saying about women.

I write for myself, first and foremost and I also write for people, mostly women, who just want to be seen and heard and all too often aren't.

I feel safe that theater will always serve women in different ages.

When women's parts are being written, they are more and more for under 30s who are nubile and beautiful. Actresses over 40 are finding very little happening.

I'm very shocked when I look at television and I see such an aggressive youth and image obsession in the representation of women on our screens.

One of the wonderful ways to celebrate women is to hire women.

I feel that women have been neglected, unnecessarily neglected and mistreated personally by the fashion industry and shapewear in that entire category was a definite place that we were neglected.

A lot of times [in the movie industry], women are relegated to playing the wife or girlfriend or daughter.