Park Bo-young Quotes

There are some strong female performers out there. But the industry's pre-occupation with the packaging of how a woman looks has gone completely the other way, back to almost the 60s, early 70s.

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

It is a difficult one, as you get scripts where women are just objects.

I have this theory that the likeability question comes up so much more with female characters created by female authors than it does with male characters and male authors.

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

There's a remarkable amount of sexism on TV. When male characters are flawed, they're interesting, deep and complex. But when female characters are flawed, they're just a mess. It's good to put more flawed but interesting female characters out there because it promotes equality.

Confidence in a bloke would be arrogance in a woman. For years, I didn't give interviews because I was scared of people judging me or thinking I was arrogant.

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

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.

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.

So many women characters are extensions of male fantasy.

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

You can't say that we need to give women more roles, and then when we do, say that they're only there because men want to look at them.

All writers are battling and fighting as to how a woman should be characterised.

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

I’m very worried about the depiction of women on the screen. It’s gotten worse than ever and it’s related to their being either high- or low-class concubines, and the only question is when or where they will go to bed, with whom, and how many. There’s nothing to do with the dreams of women, or of woman as the dream, nothing to do with the quirky part of her, the wonder of her.

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

Two phrases I hate in reference to female characters are 'strong' and 'feisty.' They really annoy me. It's the most condescending thing. You say that about a three-year-old. It infantilises women.

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

There are relatively few role models for young people. We are in a society that is ruled by men.

At the end of the day, women are a distraction. Whether you realize it or not.

We often see literature about women that impair and immerse the women themselves, such as when women are portrayed as objects of consumerism.

I think there are a lot of rules for women. We have a lot of expectations and a lot of rules for women. So we're expected to march in a straight line, and when we don't, all hell breaks loose.

For things to have value in man's world, they are given the role of commodities. Among man's oldest and most constant commodity is woman.