Cass Sunstein Quotes

When lions paint pictures men will not always be represented as conquerors. When women translate laws, constitutions, bibles and philosophies, man will not always be the declared heard of the church, the state, and the home.

I am tired of women playing action heroes like men, because they are not men. But sometimes they are written like men.

It's fair to say that there's something retrograde about putting the leader of Star Wars rebellion in the position of "slave in a bikini." There's no question that that's a fair point. But, it is true, and it's kind of remarkable, that at this point in our history, the slave girl, for a time in the bikini, is the one who chokes her captor with her bare hands and using the chain with which he bound her. That's powerful stuff. That's more retributive feminism than I think teenaged boys had ever seen.

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.

When I was producing on my own, I was doing it in order to - in a very patriarchal entertainment industry, let alone planet - very much hell-bent on trying to prove to myself, if nothing else, that I could do it as a woman.

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

People think anything done from a woman's perspective is only going to appeal to women.

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

All my best friends are women except for one or two. I feel women are superior to men, and I love having them around. All that female energy is good for me.

We need to see men and women as equal partners, but it's hard to think of movies that do that. When I talk to people, they think of movies of forty-five years ago! Hepburn and Tracy!

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

'Little Women' has interesting gender connotations. There are generations of women who love the book. But there are a lot of men who think it's sentimental, gooey stuff.

I've always enjoyed a woman's company more than men's. They're usually better looking.

When people say to me, 'Why are you so good at writing at women?' I say, 'Why isn't everybody?'

Men are mostly raised by women. Most men have not seen an authoritative woman since they were 8. They associate women in authority with childhood.

Part of the problem is that many directors treat female characters too often as precious. Or they want to live in a fantasy world where they just do spinning hook kicks and knock out guys who are six foot four, and that doesn't work either.

I like female directors that gravitate toward masculine things. I think the danger of a male director is the over-fetishization of the masculinity.

Male playwrights, on the whole, are probably more interested in male characters. They need women characters to be the women in their lives or to be the domestic difficulty.

I'm personally fed up with people seeing women and girls cast as victims.

When you write as a woman, there's this feeling there's going to be a softness.

Why is being a woman so surprising? There are two sexes. A man and a woman. So, if it's not a man in a movie, what else was it going to be?

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 was a fan of the idea of Red Sonja, but the gender politics of the character made her hard to read, for me, at times.

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?