Matthew Weiner Quotes

Now we really like to put people in boxes. As men, we do it because we don't understand characters that aren't ourselves and we aren't willing to put ourselves in the skin of those characters and women, I think, terrify us. We tend not to write women as human beings. It's cartoons we're making now. And that's a shame.

The other thing that happened was that we have a tendency to project our own weaknesses onto another woman. I don't think men do that particularly.

Every year there's five cop shows, five medical shows and five 'Law & Orders,' but when it's a show about women, they want to pit everyone against each other. I don't think they'd do that if it was a guy show. I think there's room for all of us.

Most people aren't familiar enough with what actually goes on in professional wrestling to know just how badly women are treated in WWE narratives.

We don't have enough young, female antiheroes. We don't accept women as antiheroes the way we do the men.

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

Women exist in my imagination. So they are necessarily a type of abstraction. Many women criticise me for this vision, but I explain to them it's to be expected, because I am a man.

It's tragic that you can define a whole movement in music by gender alone. People are like, 'Oh, look, another quirky girl.'

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

As much as I was encouraged by the number of female-centric shows being bandied about, it feels like we're being treated like a trend or a quota to be filled.

I get asked why there aren't more female directors all the time. I'm kind of reluctant to talk about it. That's not because I think the question is irrelevant or stupid. It's just that there are so many mitigating factors.

Nobody asks me about what male musicians I think about; I only ever get asked about females.

Over the years, the most ponderous problem for women has been that men think that men and women are very different. Another of our massive problems is that women also think that men and women are very different.

I love playing video games, but I'm regularly disappointed in the limited and limiting ways women are represented.

There is a very remarkable inclination in human nature to bestow on external objects the same emotions which it observes in itself, and to find every where those ideas which are most present to it.

If I'm going to be honest about it, I think men get to do this sort of thing all the time. You look at countless performances by great male actors who get to play the whole gamut of human emotions. Women aren't regularly allowed to do that, and I don't know why people are so frightened by it.

With a male-centric show, the women are usually very two-dimensional.

I get the feeling that characters are written female when they have to be, and all the other characters are male, and it doesn't occur to somebody that the lawyer, the best friend, the landlord, whoever, can be female.

Female-driven shows have to be every single thing and are constantly criticized in a way that male-driven shows are not.

You can't say that we need to give women more roles, and then when we do, say that they're only there because men want to look at them.

I think comics has this rap of being misogynistic, and that's certainly not untrue.

Some of my contemporaries don't want to talk about the female problem because they feel like whenever they get a teaching position or an award, we are just being pinpointed, fitting into the model.

As a man, you will never know how a woman feels.

Any reasonable person can look at video games and see that we don't represent women well.

I was frustrated in general with the way women are always portrayed. And it's always through a man's eyes.