Reed Morano Quotes

When my friends and I would act out movies as kids, we'd play the guys' roles, since they had the most interesting things to do. Decades later, I can hardly believe my sons and daughter are seeing many of the same limited choices in current films.

Sometimes I try to sell shows with a female lead to networks, and that isn't something that's been a proven formula for them, so they reject it. I do feel like men get the funniest roles in movies.

It is odd there are many movies with many men. But generally movies have one woman, or maybe the older woman and the younger girl.

There seem to be more women producers than men.

True gender equality in Scotland - and elsewhere - is still some way off.

For female directors, there's a whole other set of things we have to think about, particularly when we are casting men, because there are some actors who have never been directed by a woman. Crew members, too.

For the most part, it's a very male-dominated business. Most executives are male, so it's always sort of their vision of stuff. I'm constantly fighting against that, even when I play the wife or the girlfriend or the best friend. I always try my hardest to bring as much layering in and not make things stereotypical, but it's hard.

When only one or two percent of filmmakers are female, you can't help but have some kind of bias.

Lately, I've been in meetings regarding a new script idea I have. A studio executive asked me to change the female lead to a male, because... 'Women don't go to movies.' Really?

People are always telling me that boys won't go to girls' movies and vice versa. It's not true.

Women remain dramatically under-represented as characters in film when compared to their representation in the U.S. population.

In any film, there are 10 male roles for 1 female role, especially in the action films. They're heavy with the guys.

It is a difficult one, as you get scripts where women are just objects.

When I was a kid and going to the movies I was overwhelmed by the way women were always second-class citizens in the film.

There aren't a lot of female story artists, and it's baffling to me. There are a lot of kids in school that are female and I wonder, 'Where did they all go?' People have brought it up, asking me, 'What did you do?' I don't really know. I puttered along, did my thing and gender has really never been an issue.

I feel like it's harder to get women to show up for movies.

I never had a single female professor throughout my whole education, from the beginning of university to the end. Even all the books were about men; I never really liked reading books about the history of science, and I never really understood why.

I would not say that female cosmonauts are not welcomed in the Russian space program. I must say, however, that all spaceflight hardware, including spacesuits and spacecraft comfort assuring systems, were designed mostly by men and for men.

If being a woman is a factor politically, it's usually not because of a conscious bias, but because women are a novelty.

There are 10-20 times more male comics than female comics; it's something to do with the social structure of society.

If a studio sees that a female can bring in audiences, then they're going to make movies with that person.

I've worked with so few female directors.

For movies to get greenlit solely based on the success of other movies that have a lot of women in them? It's so ridiculous to me.

If I have a male protagonist, it's a studio movie, and if it's a female protagonist, it's an indie movie. That's just how it is. It's not about the studios. It's about America and who goes to see movies. Women are interested in men and women, and men aren't interested in the woman's story. They just aren't.

I always had more women working for me than men.