Diane English Quotes

Every woman is just a different kind of problem.

You get angry and frustrated wondering, 'Are there enough parts for women?'

At one time, especially during the era of action heroes, women took a bit of a secondary role because heroes were doing most of the action.

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

Despite the fact that feminists say they're not getting a fair deal, women are still very powerful.

If a studio sees that a female can bring in audiences, then they're going to make movies with that person.

For a woman emancipation means corruption.

I'm personally fed up with people seeing women and girls cast as victims.

Partly because women in the U.S. are better represented in the hierarchies, the culture wars over gender there have been particularly fierce.

I'm working hard to break free of stereotypes that the film industry has created and nurtured around women.

We needed to be assertive as women in those days - assertive and aggressive - and the degree to which we had to be that way depended on where you were. I had to be.

I was just nine years old when 'Straw Dogs' came out, so I can't really speak to the women of the time, but I can tell you that the women of 2011 are not put-upon, and they're not victims.

You have woman filmmakers, who have a male gaze. They play according to the rules of the patriarchal system and make a success of it.

I don't understand this concept of women-oriented films or stories based on women, because nobody uses the term, a 'man-oriented' film. Why do you have to separate girls from boys?

I don't really consider myself to be a super feminist.

It doesn't bother me if I'm getting attention because I'm a girl.

The majority of the film industry is, like, obsessed with a ridiculous gender binary and keeping with this stupid social binary. Like, who cares?

I agree that at the end of the day, it's a man's world, but when I'm doing a film, I am working with the director, not a man or a woman.

#TimesUp is you can't hold it in anymore: Time's up! The doors have to give way. It can't be that every 27-year-old born into a male body is a designated genius. It can't be that the language used to review male and female films is different.

When lions paint pictures men will not always be represented as conquerors. When women translate laws, constitutions, bibles and philosophies, man will not always be the declared heard of the church, the state, and the home.

When I started working in a feminist feminine magazine all my life was about rebelling against male authority, which is authority in general is male, so it was rebelling against everything. Everything that was around me made me angry.

Women have two choices: Either she's a feminist or a masochist.

Nobody says 'a working man,' but they say, 'a working woman.' And there is still a strange connotation to that.

We need to understand that femininity is not weakness. And our society, for some reason, equates the two.

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.