Jessica Chastain Quotes

My only concern is that the L.A. Times opinion pages, unfortunately like too many in this country, are dominated by men, and I'd like to see that change.

There are definitely challenges that come with being the only woman in any room, and on a show like 'The Breakfast Club,' with strong opinions, it can be hard to get the guys to see things from my point of view.

I kind of feel like every time I do a film, it is me and an entire male ensemble cast.

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

Meryl [Stripe]spoke out about the low percentage of female critics on Rotten Tomatoes. Why are there 760 male critics and just 168 women? You are immediately [biased] on what kind of films you are being told to go see. What are you told are good films? Male films.

The music industry is dominated by guys. I work with men 98 percent of the time - producers, arrangers, musicians, engineers.

There are a lot of women screenwriters, but they are obviously outnumbered by men. And it still is a very much male-dominated industry.

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

The Screen Actors Guild numbers are frightening: Something like 90 percent of the roles are for men, 5 percent are for livestock and 5 percent are for women.

Men have had every advantage of us in telling their own story. Education has been theirs in so much higher a degree; the pen has been in their hands. I will not allow books to prove anything.

I was watching something the other day which started out with five guys walking towards you and one woman, and there you go-it's still being dominated by the male society.

For female directors, there's a whole other set of things we have to think about, particularly when we are casting men, because there are some actors who have never been directed by a woman. Crew members, too.

Men should look at the world as if something is wrong when their voices predominate. They should feel it.

Music is a male-dominated field.

The canon is dominated by books written by men, about men, and for men - the male voice is therefore not a particularly difficult one to impersonate.

An executive producer with an all-male writing staff once inadvertently revealed his deep, dark fear. While discussing a full-time position for me, he mused out loud, 'I wonder if having a woman in the room will change everything.' Of course, what he really meant was: 'I wonder if having a woman in the room will change me.'

When I first came to comics, it was, like, dudes. The feeling, the air, the presence is overwhelmingly male.

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.

For a very long time now, we've seen things one way, which is through the eyes of men. Quite frankly, I'm a little bit bored by our stories and the way we perceive things.

It doesn't matter how many women we get into game production. If the only people evaluating the work we do continue to be men, women's voices will never be heard.

Women are more meticulous and methodical. But on the other hand, I feel if you go on a male-dominated set, which is mostly any other set, you don't ask how it was to be on a male-dominated set.

The Manchester music scene was very male dominated.

Bad women's comedies are made by men who didn't consult enough women.

The simple act of telling a woman's story from a woman's point of view is a revolutionary act: it never has been done before.

For thousands of years, men have written history, so it seems to me that most of what we've read is from the male point of view.