Quotes About Gender

There's a different energy with a female director, a female at the head of the production. I don't prefer one over the other, but they're definitely different experiences, and I would love to have more of them.

If we could find a way to totally empower half of the brains in America, imagine how much more productive we could be.

I believe you have to start with yourself, think about your bad habits and prejudices, not only in your profession but generally in life. Why do I assume that a doctor is a man? Something is indoctrinated from very early on.

I've never felt stigmatized in my profession, nor have I allowed myself to. I don't feel either male or female, I feel I am just me, and I should be able to do whatever I like.

It's a question of economics. If you're paid the same as a man, which now you are in this profession, you're equal.

Showing women being scientists on television can have a great impact on who actually goes into science as a profession.

It's quite interesting to hear the different ways boys and girls talk about sex, because they're not so different at all.

Men treat men differently than they would a woman.

I can't speak for boys because I'm not one! But I just imagine they think differently.

I like to watch the men play. I like the way that they're playing, and I can always learn something from them. They're playing differently than the women, so I like to learn from them as well.

It's absolutely delightful to get dressed up for a lovely evening, but when it goes from being a fun thing to being a chore, and a chore that men don't have to do, then we need to think about it differently.

A lot of people - boys - look at me differently. They think that if they date me, they are gay because they are dating another boy. In instances like this, I feel almost excluded, if that's the right word. I feel like I'm being put on a different shelf.

It's such a difficult thing for women, especially, to admit when we're not coping, because we're supposed to be all right with all the different roles we're born with and are piled on us later on.

Why can't we digest a woman taking the lead in a love scene?

I don't court controversies, but when I state facts, which are hard to digest for male-dominated authorities, they call them squabble.

There are a lot of women who direct in a way that is even more masculine sometimes than men - and that's not a bad thing, either.

I never want to set a belief that a woman has to direct a woman's film, meaning she can't direct a man's film. If only films can be directed by people who are exactly the same as that, it's only gonna limit all of the women more.

Directing is a rarefied business. And you see very few women pass that Rubicon.

I think if more women had been directing when I was a child, I probably would have gone for directing first. But, as a child, all I wanted to do was make movies.

Men do communicate, often very directly, but women sometimes cannot accept how simple what we have to say is.

The question I always ask is: 'Where are all the women directors in America?' You know, where's the female Martin Scorsese, the female David Lynch?

I've never felt that being a woman was a competitive advantage or disadvantage.

We've established a world that's binary gendered, and I don't want to be disadvantaged at all. If being male is going to be more advantageous than being female, I'm all about it. I don't really think it's that important.

If men disappeared tomorrow, we'd still be having the abortion debate. If men disappeared tomorrow, there would still be racism and conflicts over religion.