Lexi Alexander Quotes

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.

Women do feel like they're in a box. Society, Hollywood, some men-they want to wrap women up in a neat little package.

Every woman is supposed to have the same set of motives, or else to be a monster.

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

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

A high-powered, successful woman doesn't necessarily have the same support behind her that a man in that position would. Plus, she's expected to be a domestic goddess, as well as the best wife, mother, friend, and lover. But it's not just in politics: you see it in acting, too, and in journalism.

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

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.

I was called a misogynist because I was reducing women to mothers. 'Reducing women to mothers' - now there is possibly the most anti-women statement I've heard.

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

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

I think we still believe that ambition is for boys.

The only moment I become aware of being the only woman in a meeting is when actresses are being discussed. If someone's critical of how a woman looks, they turn to me and apologize.

Part of the problem is that many directors treat female characters too often as precious. Or they want to live in a fantasy world where they just do spinning hook kicks and knock out guys who are six foot four, and that doesn't work either.

In commercial cinema, roles for heroines are limited to being simple or glamorous. I don't want to fall into an image trap.

I'm not sure if I should say this, and it might sound arrogant of me, but I think there is a tendency to view female characters as consumer products.

Even in stories that I like, with a female character that I love deeply, it always feels like there's something that she has to prove to the male characters before she can even get started.

What I find weird is that the term 'chick lit' is used to encompass literally anything a woman writes about relationships. It's the assumption that because you're female, you must write in a certain way. I don't understand why that is - it is a bit demeaning.

Male heroes are entitled to particular privileges, and why not the women as well?

When women say no, they are immediately seen as selfish and not team players.

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

In Hollywood, only a female who's massively damaged is interesting.

Women's director! Well, I'm very pleased to be considered a master of anything, but remember, for every Jill there was a Jack. People like to pigeonhole you - it's a shortcut, I guess, but once they do, you're stuck with it.

A man is free to go up as high as he can reach up to; but I, with all my style and pep, can't get a man my equal because a girl is always judged by her mother.

Women have talent and intelligence but, due to social constraints and prejudices, it is still a long distance away from the goal of gender equality.