Kirti Kulhari Quotes

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

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

I have always been interested in gender politics, so I'm not that keen on doing things that don't represent a truth about women.

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

I think that's important to women in comedy, that we get a lot of the good lines and you're not just the girlfriend or the sister.

There's a lot of good roles for men, always, and for very young girls. But for women, not so many.

They sign a bunch of women, and they call it a movement. I don't like the way women in music have been identified as women first and musicians second.

When they make a woman's picture, they treat it like a 'woman's picture.' In the '40s, they didn't treat Joan Crawford movies like that, but as the big movies of their year. I'm upset that there's no 'Terminator' with a woman in Arnold Schwarzenegger's role. Because that would make just as much money.

Why are comedic parts for women the exception, not the rule?

One of the sad commentaries on the way women are viewed in our society is that we have to fit one category. I have never felt that I had to be in one category.

I'll never forget when I was running, when I was knocking on doors for my first office as I served as a Cleveland city councilwoman and to have older men say to me, 'Can you do this and be a wife and a mother?' Excuse me? Women make the world go round. We multitask... But to have that kind of condescending question asked of me in modern times.

I think that there are a lot of male writers and directors in Hollywood, and a lot of the female characters you do see are really one-dimensional, but I think that's changing more and more as there are more women taking control in Hollywood.

Roles for women need to be better written.

Not all the roles that I've gotten were stereotypical, but in Korea, especially for TV, it's a bit limited for women in their twenties and thirties. There aren't enough female roles.

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

The poorest and most backward societies are always those that put women down.

I'm a pragmatist. I think, as a woman, you have to be more careful. You have to be more communal, you have to say yes to more things than men, you have to worry about things that men don't have to worry about. But once we get enough women into leadership, we can break stereotypes down. If you lead, you get to decide.

Any woman who wishes to smash into the world of men isn't very feminine.

I think the media's a little frightened of women.

I get quite disappointed that we're still telling stories that I think are problematic in terms of what they're saying about women.

We thought we'd write a good script for women, giving them the fun roles that generally men get.

If I stumbled badly in doing the job, I think it would have made life more difficult for women, and that was a great concern of mine and still is.

The whole world is starting to realize that it was the most unwise thing for our society to have ignored women power, to run the society with male priorities.

People want to put women in one box, and I'm interested in how women can be everything at once.

When I was producing on my own, I was doing it in order to - in a very patriarchal entertainment industry, let alone planet - very much hell-bent on trying to prove to myself, if nothing else, that I could do it as a woman.