Poonam Dhillon Quotes

In '39, they had no problem with it. But today, there's a huge issue with a movie that has no male movie stars.

You have woman filmmakers, who have a male gaze. They play according to the rules of the patriarchal system and make a success of it.

There are relatively few role models for young people. We are in a society that is ruled by men.

We often see literature about women that impair and immerse the women themselves, such as when women are portrayed as objects of consumerism.

I can't stomach most of the movies about women.

There aren't good roles for women: the female parts aren't developed: the women are serving the men.

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

I think a lot of the time in films, men get roles where they create their own destiny and women are just tools, supporters for that.

To conclude that women are unfitted to the task of our historic society seems to me the equivalent of closing male ideas to female facts.

Women have to stand up to tremendous discriminatory practices, whether inherited traditions, whether imposed norms, male perceptions of power and control. The women always have to go through that and cannot take any privilege for granted.

I'm working hard to break free of stereotypes that the film industry has created and nurtured around women.

You get angry and frustrated wondering, 'Are there enough parts for women?'

I prefer the Telugu film industry, as women are respected more than they are in the Tamil film industry. In Tamil cinema, they care only about their hero, who is God.

I don't understand this concept of women-oriented films or stories based on women, because nobody uses the term, a 'man-oriented' film. Why do you have to separate girls from boys?

I agree that at the end of the day, it's a man's world, but when I'm doing a film, I am working with the director, not a man or a woman.

Guys pit female rappers against each other because female rappers - if you haven't noticed of late - are a lot more interesting than guys.

The notion that somehow women are wildly different infuriates me.

As a male writer, women are always what men pursue, and their world is always a mystery. So I always tried to present as many views as possible on women's worlds.

America is a land where men govern, but women rule.

I would gladly admit women are superior to men if only they would stop trying to be the same as us.

I by no means intend to simplify the challenges women face in any culture. Women are marginalized in all cultures in my opinion, some in more extreme ways than others.

Being sensitive to the problem of women is just another symptom of the quality of movies: I don't think you can do anything that's very sensitive. Everything's sort of broad strokes and big gestures - adventure things that boys, guys want to see.

Every single one of us who has been a 'Woman in Film' for more than five minutes is sick of the phrase 'Women in Film.'

I was surrounded by strong women so it had never even occurred to me that women were anything other than equal to men.

I remember becoming aware of women's issues and inequality. It became glaringly clear to me when I was living in America that women are regarded as less intelligent than men.