Karyn Kusama Quotes

There's still a massive inequality between the genders. If you look at the trajectory of a male actor's career, there's no hesitation or hiatus. But women after the age of 35 to 40 are rarely placed in the centre of the story.

Women are not making it to the top of any profession in the world. But when I say, 'The blunt truth is that men run the world,' people say, 'Really?' That, to me, is the problem.

Regardless of the business aspect of things, is there a reason that there isn't a female Hitchcock or a female Scorsese or a female Spielberg? I don't know. I think it's a medium that really is built for the male gaze and for a male sensibility.

One of the things I haven't been ready for is how male-dominated the music industry is. I just didn't have a clue.

When I started out, there were three things that made film people look at me with condescension, I was young, I was black, and I was female. I have won a certain respect, but I think the film community still sees directing as a male job.

The failure of women to have reached positions of leadership has been due in large part to social and professional discrimination.

I think a lot of women are underestimated.

Hmm, can I be obvious and say there is probably a double standard for male vs. female directors? Sadly, I think that's actually the case. And it probably stems from the fact that there are proportionately so many fewer women directors than men ones that each project is perhaps more closely scrutinized for its content.

There are so many times that, as a woman in the music industry, you're asked questions no male musician would ever be asked.

For the most part, it's a very male-dominated business. Most executives are male, so it's always sort of their vision of stuff. I'm constantly fighting against that, even when I play the wife or the girlfriend or the best friend. I always try my hardest to bring as much layering in and not make things stereotypical, but it's hard.

Huge studio movies are handed over to a man with less experience before they're handed over to a woman with less experience. That's a fact. But I think it's not just about men not hiring women: it's about women not hiring women, too.

We have so many male superstars, but there are just a few female actors who have attained that status. It is not only because of the industry; it's in the society.

When you work in film sets, when you're working on projects that are male dominated, you are always treated as the last priority.

For a woman to go out alone into architecture is still very, very hard. It's still a man's world.

Tremendous amounts of talent are lost to our society just because that talent wears a skirt.

Whenever you see a successful woman, look out for three men who are going out of their way to try to block her.

It's such a male-dominated industry. You can be a feminist, it's just difficult because it sometimes comes back at you.

There are less opportunities for women.

The Screen Actors Guild numbers are frightening: Something like 90 percent of the roles are for men, 5 percent are for livestock and 5 percent are for women.

We often hear of a male director directing a great indie and immediately being offered the next huge comic book movie. Rarely, if ever, does this happen to a woman.

Suffice to say, many women find their first appearance on a comedy panel show to be their last. Second chances seem to be given less often to the female of the species.

The failure of women to have reached positions of leadership has been due in large part to social and professional discrimination. In the past, few women have tried, and even fewer have succeeded.

Female authors were still using male names when I was young, or they were neatly shoehorned into 'women's books' except for those few that men could always point at when the disparity was pointed out.

The failure of women to produce genius of the first rank in most of the supreme forms of human effort has been used to block the way of all women of talent and ambition for intellectual achievement.

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.