Denis Villeneuve Quotes

I get so many questions in interviews about feminism, and I think the second you start separating femininity and masculinity and giving one more power than the other, that's like - everyone is a person.

I think masculinity is bravado against the mystery of the universe of women. It's just a fear of not knowing what women have that's so powerful. It's this shield they put up to try to get closer.

The impulse of the American woman to geld her husband and castrate her sons is very strong.

Nature makes woman to be won and men to win.

I have no objection to a man being a man, however masculine that may be.

In the face of patriarchy, it is a brave act indeed for both men and women to embrace, rather than shame or attempt to eradicate, the feminine.

If you're female, and you want to express your femininity, you're actually demonized in the 'Free To Be... You And Me' generation.

I definitely feel closer to the feminine side of the human being than I do the male - or the American idea of what a male is supposed to be. Just watch a beer commercial and you'll see what I mean.

Through the ages, from the beginning of time, I'm certain man has covered woman's face with masks. They are, however, his masks, not hers.

I'm too much of a broad; I make men shake in their boots because I have a male dominance in my make-up that makes them feel emasculated.

I have never felt oppressed by women or that feminism is a problem. I do think boys find it hard to like things seen as feminine. I want my son not to feel self-conscious he likes ballet and my daughter to carry on playing Han Solo; that's all.

If you're in control of everything, then no matter what it is, you can make that feminine.

Patriarchy values the hard over the soft; the tough over the tender; punishment, vengeance, and vindictiveness over compassion, negotiation, and reconciliation. The 'hard' qualities are linked to power, success, and masculinity - and exalted. The 'soft' qualities are identified with weakness, powerlessness, and femininity - and denigrated.

Are you woman enough to be my man?

I don't think women are better than men, I think men are a lot worse than women.

I've probably understood men too well. I realise they are predatory by nature, and I have a certain acceptance of the male animal.

I do believe that men can be emasculated by successful women. I don't think I'm emasculating. But I have seen the dynamic with men who either don't make money or make less money. It's just not good for them.

Women is fine once you got em pinned down, boss, but when they ain't pinned down they're hell.

Any woman who wishes to smash into the world of men isn't very feminine.

Men are not supposed to be mysterious. That's what you say about women. But I think men can have a little of it, too.

Men haven't changed their behaviour, so women somehow have to be strengthened to be able to ward off the men.

I've never seen a world where only men were responsible for the violence, and the women were innocent. They go together. Men and women are a violent mixture.

Men's need to dominate women may be based in their own sense of marginality or emptiness; we do not know its root, and men are making no effort to discover it.

Society says that men need to be bigger and stronger, and they must protect their women and so on.

I would argue that something dark is lurking between the sexes, and that it is seeping out into cinema.