Paul Feig Quotes

We didn't used to be so precious about women in comedy back in the old days.

Hollywood usually doesn't have strong woman in films like that, and it's stupid, so for the most part they're usually being directed and written by men.

Anyone who says he can see through women is missing a lot.

Films about women and their concerns are seen as frivolous, limited and, most damaging of all, niche.

I hate the victimization of women, always.

Women are oppressed in the east, in the west, in the south, in the north. Women are oppressed inside, outside home, a woman is oppressed in religion, she is oppressed outside religion.

I think that's important to women in comedy, that we get a lot of the good lines and you're not just the girlfriend or the sister.

The industry is quite chauvinistic generally. Expectations of women, girls, what they should look like, how they should be, what they should say, what they should wear, how their hair should be, what colour their skin should be.

When you're a woman, you have to work harder to get a laugh... I follow so many hilarious women on Twitter. It's a daily reminder that women get to be funny.

Film is not a woman's medium. If you weren't the hottest kid in town, men stayed away from you.

Although it has been said by men of more wit than wisdom, and perhaps more malice than either, that women are naturally incapable of acting prudently, or that they are necessarily determined to folly, I must by no means grant it.

I won't say that women belong in the kitchen, but they don't belong in the dugout.

Why are comedic parts for women the exception, not the rule?

The men resent a woman getting any honour in what they consider is essentially their field. Men painters mostly despise women painters. So I have decided to stop squirming, to throw any honour in with Canada and women.

You—the outside world—will be told that it is our “culture” and “religion” to do X, Y, and Z to women. Understand that whoever deemed it as such was never a woman.

As soon as woman raises her voice or uses her pen in defense- however cool and earnest- of her own side of the question, there is an immediate outcry made in order to drown her. It is so easy for men to talk of ‘the clamor of shrill voices,’ ‘the cackle of female tongues,’ that in the pleasure of so describing them they occasionally forget that they have not answered their opponents’ argument…

Everyone has been discriminated against or harassed - sexism is real.

Sexism is alive and well in politics, as it is in all industries.

I don't know why women aren't allowed to have the same sort of breadth and scope and flaws of men.

I think it is childish for men to joke about women's clothes, to make fun of our hats, to complain over the cost of a good fur coat.

I never realized how hurtful people can be. They hate me so much for being a female in a men's sport. And I'm just like, 'Really? It's 2016, people. Women can do anything.'

I certainly think sometimes when it comes to sexism, some Sky presenters need to look at themselves.

The representation of women in hip-hop has long been so flagrantly unkind.

I've done shows before where it's supposed to be about the women, and then it quickly turns out it isn't.

To presume that my greatest achievement is that I dated someone famous twenty years ago is completely sexist and anti-woman. It's lazy, nasty journalism that makes me sad about our world.