Caitlin Moran Quotes

You're allowed to make things for women on television and there's not like... you don't have to go through the humiliation of having made something directed at women. There it's just accepted, whereas if it's a feature, it's like 'So, talk to me about chick flicks.'

It used to be that you had to make female TV characters perfect so no one would be offended by your 'portrayal' of women. Even when I started out on 'The Office' eight years ago, we could write our male characters funny and flawed, but not the women. And now, thankfully, it's completely different.

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

Personally, I don't think we could do such a show if we didn't get along. The subtext of all this is that we're women in a show so we can't possibly get along. It's not like they write about The Sopranos like that.

Whether you're writing television or movies, at some point you're going to encounter a male executive or investor who's going to say, 'I don't like that woman. She's unlikable.' And often, it's literally for being a regular human woman as opposed to an attracting human woman.

If women ran Hollywood, 'The Hollywood Reporter' would have a 'Men in Entertainment' issue every year, and those jerks would have to write something.

Men still control the news, both on and off camera.

In television, women can really run anything. It can be a comedy, it can be a drama, it can be genre, it can be anything. But in films, women are still getting to the top.

You don't have to put dresses in a movie to make girls like it.

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

The idea that women journalists bring a different taste in stories or sensibility isn't true.

Television is often out ahead on social issues. With film, we've only recently proved that one of the oldest misconceptions in the book is wrong, which is the idea that girls will see films with boys as protagonists, but boys won't see movies with girls as protagonists.

Cinematic icons of the police detective are more male role models than female.

It was a beauty contest in the '80s. If they played two women back to back on the radio, it was almost a scandal.

Women are half the population of the world, and yet there are so few female characters on-screen.

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

There are so many male antiheroes but not nearly as many female antiheroes.There's a lot of pressure on female characters to be likable. That puts a lot of pressure on women to be likable.

In the beginning, all of us got 'women type' stories. Like covering the first lady instead of the president.

A lot of people like to justify women's supporting role in sports media by saying, 'Well, they've never played the game, so they just aren't qualified to speak about it.'

It's frustrating to see that people still get shocked when they see a woman doing action.

The audience just doesn't care. They are just as interested in women-centric stories as they are in stories about men.

Women in sports television are allowed to read headlines, patrols sidelines, and generally facilitate conversation for their male colleagues. Sometimes, they even let us monitor the Internet from a couch.

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

I feel it's so rare that young females are portrayed as being anything more than a stereotype.

When women do succeed, the press, even the industry press, spend far too much time talking about how we dress, what shoes we're wearing, who we're meant to be seeing. That's pretty sad for women, especially when it's written by women who really should know better.