Parvathy Quotes

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

Women are really complex and totally enigmatic. Humans are really complex, but in film, we've only ever seen that with men. We've seen antiheroes time and again with male characters.

I'm sorry, but chick fights are sexy. If you don't think so, you're either an uptight woman or a lying man.

There is this idea that you have to play heroines or women who succeed.

I've heard people say that 'The Blair Witch Project' is a feminist movie because there's a woman in charge and I've heard it called a completely anti-feminist movie because this woman screws everything up. Who cares really? It's just a movie.

That women are mysterious and unknowable is something every young man grows up believing. Men, on the other hand, never think of themselves as mysterious or confusing, and we are often at a loss as to why women want to figure us out.

I realized early on that I always hated girls who used their femininity to get what they wanted.

Occasionally, some sitcoms still stereotype women - the old dragon or the dolly bird - but on the whole we've moved away from that.

It's a misogynistic world. It's because of what we ask of actresses. We ask them to be sensitive, fragile, desirable. And men? We ask them to be strong and virile.

I'm so bored of reading scripts with these wonderfully complex male roles, yet the woman character just sits on the bed waiting for him to come home.

We know in our society, women are valued for their sexual desirability and not necessarily for what they have to say.

I like women. I like them so much, I think every man should own two.

I've definitely had my struggles with the male species, as I'm sure most girls have.

I think women are very complicated human beings, and I think there's an oversimplification of women when you see them on screen.

So many women characters are extensions of male fantasy.

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

What works for a man, still does not work for a woman - both in terms of how they see themselves and how we see them.

Usually when you see females in movies, they feel like they have these metallic structures around them, they are caged in by male energy.

The most mediocre of males feels himself a demigod as compared with women.

There are some strong female performers out there. But the industry's pre-occupation with the packaging of how a woman looks has gone completely the other way, back to almost the 60s, early 70s.

If you're a single man and you happen to be in this business, you're deemed a player. But I don't see myself as a ladies' man.

I'm supposed to have a Ph.D. on the subject of women. But the truth is I've flunked more often than not. I'm very fond of women; I admire them. But, like all men, I don't understand them.

I'm not involved with the female world.

I think I am really irreverent and I pretty much just talk to and about men the way men talk to and about women.

Women get the attention when we get into the men's arena, and that's sad.