Nia Vardalos Quotes

Sometimes I try to sell shows with a female lead to networks, and that isn't something that's been a proven formula for them, so they reject it. I do feel like men get the funniest roles in movies.

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

When my friends and I would act out movies as kids, we'd play the guys' roles, since they had the most interesting things to do. Decades later, I can hardly believe my sons and daughter are seeing many of the same limited choices in current films.

I have a lot of men who will say to me, 'I don't read books by women, but I like you.'

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.

If being a woman is a factor politically, it's usually not because of a conscious bias, but because women are a novelty.

If I have a male protagonist, it's a studio movie, and if it's a female protagonist, it's an indie movie. That's just how it is. It's not about the studios. It's about America and who goes to see movies. Women are interested in men and women, and men aren't interested in the woman's story. They just aren't.

She is a great man whose only flaw is that she is a woman.

After graduating, I was shooting as well as working as a key grip, and I often found myself the only female out of the whole crew, except for producers and the occasional AC.

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

There's an ingrained mentality in our culture that women aren't as good. Other places, it doesn't exist.

Believe it or not, I don't collaborate with women, though my agent and editor are both females. For the most part, they do little editing on my characters.

I think any time you have a workplace that's heavily weighted to men just by the nature of what it is, the same way you can say PR or fashion is heavily occupied by women, there's always going to be a little bit of that sexism.

People put stock in someone being in a 'girl group,' but we don't say that a band is a 'man group.'

It's absurd: half the movie audience are women, but Hollywood bosses are still aiming for men who are 20.

In this society, if a man is called a woman, that's the biggest insult he could get. Is that because women are considered something less?

I don't think that women being seen as inferior is a prejudice based on male hatred of women. When you look at history, it's a prejudice based on simple fact.

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.

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

People are always telling me that boys won't go to girls' movies and vice versa. It's not true.

On one issue at least, men and women agree; they both distrust women.

In any film, there are 10 male roles for 1 female role, especially in the action films. They're heavy with the guys.

I'm a girl, so I've experienced dismissal because I was a girl or because I write about girls: my book with a guy protagonist is treated as more literary and worthy than my other books with girl protagonists.

We call our little girls bossy. Go to a playground; little girls get called bossy all the time - a word that's almost never used for boys - and that leads directly to the problems women face in the workforce.