Sharmila Tagore Quotes

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

It is odd there are many movies with many men. But generally movies have one woman, or maybe the older woman and the younger girl.

But there are still only certain film genres where a woman can stand out, be heroic, be the centerpiece.

Sometimes it's more difficult to exist as a female lead, especially in action movies because all those men are around you. They take so much place.

Rawn did her own thing in her own way. She cast the female gaze on a genre heavy with all-male quest fellowships, trophy females, and the occasional Smurfette. Her world was male-dominated and highly patriarchal, but she populated it with notable numbers of well-drawn female characters.

I have four daughters. A lot of the time, I don't allow myself to be in projects that objectify women.

There are few films where you have women really driving the plot.

We as women have a voice and we are decision makers in what film to see. We always support our boyfriends and husbands by going to see the male dominated films, but we don't compel them to see films with female casts.

I won't take parts where the female character has no substance.

I think a lot of the time in films, men get roles where they create their own destiny and women are just tools, supporters for that.

It's sad that women characters have lost so much ground in popular movies. Didn't 'Thelma and Louise' prove that women want to see women doing things on film? Thelma and Louise were in a classic car; they were being chased by cops; they shot up a truck - and women loved it.

I love strong women in films that are allowed to play women and not male fantasies.

I seem to be getting a lot of things pushed my way that are strong women. It's like people see Hackers and they send me offers to play tough women with guns, the kind who wear no bra and a little tank top. I'd like to play strong women who are also very feminine.

There aren't enough good roles for strong women. I wish we had more female writers. Most of the female characters you see in films today are the 'poor heartbroken girl.'

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.

I became interested in educating people in the variety of ways in which women can express their emotion. Which is much easier to do in a large role than in a supporting role to a male protagonist. In general, the women in a supporting role to a male protagonist - cry a lot.

Oftentimes in films, the female character, if she's not the protagonist - and often, even if she is - feels like an imitation of what a woman is.

There are now superhero movies fronted by women, and I think directors generally are moving away from that stereotypical woman's role that is just about being flirted with by a man before falling into his arms.

It's nice to know that a studio is willing to put a female in a film without expecting the character to have a love interest.

It's rare to see women in a film who are not somehow validated by a male or discussing a male or heartbroken by a male, or end up being happy because of a male. It's interesting to think about, and it's very true.

I think, so often, women play supporting roles or girlfriends or wives - they're there to support a man's journey.

People often ask me why I don't take up more heroine-oriented roles. My question is, 'Where are these roles?' I really appreciate actresses who sign only films with meaty roles. However, there aren't too many of them. The industry is simply male-dominated.

Women's roles in the movies remain, for the most part, girlfriends, mothers, wives.

I don't believe in women-centric films, but I certainly believe that we should create films that have more challenging roles for women and I definitely will have that in all my films.

The Tamil industry, while being better than all the other film industries when it comes to treating female actors, is still dominated by men. So, I can only work within the space offered to heroines, and I think I am doing that.