Melanie Griffith Quotes

Men tend to be hierarchical, but women are driven to make lateral connections so they can cooperate.

All my life, I've been working with male directors, which I've really enjoyed. And I'm lucky in that I've worked with men who have a lot of respect for women. But working with a woman is a different experience. It feels like the communication is different.

I learned what a lot of women have to do is make the guys in the room think it was their idea, and then you back them up.

That's why I never became a director. I never had patience with people.

While the male eye zooms in on a particular element to the exclusion of all else, a woman's gaze flickers from one tedious task to the next, to the point where we can't distinguish between the importance of mopping the kitchen floor and achieving world peace.

I love writing about men. To get by in the world you have to know how men think. Not that all guys think alike, but women tend to think about more things at the same time, an overgeneralization, but I find it easier to make my male characters focus than I do my female characters.

Overall, women are a lot more fun to work with than a bunch of men.

Women are just more oriented toward feelings - and I don't mean that in a negative way. But with a male actor and a male director, the emotional exploration can only go so far. With a female director, you can end up exploring so many more depths.

Reading a book about management isn't going to make you a good manager any more than a book about guitar will make you a good guitarist, but it can get you thinking about the most important concepts.

A good head has one hundred hands.

I think women are not as hung up on the testosterone thing. They're more collaborative. They multitask better, and I think they're more results-oriented. They just want to cut to the chase and get it done.

Women are thought to be more social, more interested in relationships and connections, better at multi-tasking.

It's a tough thing to work with two different genders. You've gotta learn how to talk to women and talk to guys.

I want to be a guy who helps the team a lot of different ways.

A lot of people can score. What else can you do?

I think I can contribute to the team in a multitude of ways.

Women are in this respect more fortunate than men, that most of their employments are of such a nature that they can at the same time be thinking of quite different things.

Any man who thinks he knows the mind of a woman is a man who knows nothing.

Management means, in the last analysis, the substitution of thought for brawn and muscle, of knowledge for folkways and superstition, and of cooperation for force. It means the substitution of responsibility for obedience to rank, and of authority of performance for the authority of rank.

As far as I was concerned men were something you had around the place, not particularly interesting, but quite harmless. I had never shown the slightest feeling for them, and apart from my never wearing a skirt, saw nothing else in common between us.

The world would be entirely different if it were run by women. I think it is true that we are more seeking consensus and don't have such big egos and have a variety of different ways of trying to get along. But anybody who says that the world would be better has forgotten high school. It depends on who the women are.

I prefer a woman's way of dealing with things.

I pretty much know that directing means that you have to answer about a thousand questions every day and you have to answer them quick.

Before sex, a man isn't thinking clearly and a woman is thinking clearly. After sex, it reverses. The man is thinking clearly and a woman isn't.

I don't think men try to make women be like them, but I think women try to make men be like them, a lot.