Sergio Leone Quotes

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.

Stand-up comedy is still a very male-dominated world. You look at a set list and maybe there's one woman on there.

Without a doubt in sketch comedy there are fewer women than men.

There are a lot of women screenwriters, but they are obviously outnumbered by men. And it still is a very much male-dominated industry.

If you look through the shelves of science books, you'll find row after row of books written by men. This can be terribly off-putting for women.

I don't like the fact that there are so few women in rap.

I think about 'The Hurt Locker,' and we made a film about three guys, three different looking guys with three very different energies.

There's nothing gratuitous about my films.

When I started doing improv in Chicago, for every five teams, one or two would have one woman.

It is noticeable how many times you see a panel at a conference made up of all men or look into the audience and see very few women, whether it is an event focused on technology or business.

I think hip-hop doesn't give women as much of a chance as it gives guys.

The film industry is driven by male narrative. Heads of studios are often men, teeming with male executives everywhere you look, and so the narratives we have the screenwriters usually for male leads. Women tend to be second string: the girlfriend of, the secretary who becomes.

You're always one of the only girls, because there are so many male writers, and there are not enough good parts for women.

The ratio of male to female characters in movies has been exactly the same since 1946. So if you've ever had people say, you know, "It's better now, it's all changed, it's all different," it's not, it hasn't. Not yet.

About 52% of the world's population is female. But most of the positions of power and prestige are occupied by men. The late Kenyan Nobel Peace Laureate Wangari Maathai put it simply and well when she said 'The higher you go, the fewer women there are.'

If you're talking about intellectual and social equality for women, we're not much better off.America is still very much a male-dominated society. Most American men feel threatened sexually unless they're taller than the female, more intellectual, better educated, better paid and higher placed statuswise in the business world. They've got to be the authority, the final word.

The film world is far more male-dominated. I mean, the numbers are staggering at the level of how many people on set there are, and almost all the trades in film, there's a lot more men. So I can see without anyone intending to be biased [that] we have kind of a collective choosing of men's stories and a collective of taking men's stories seriously.

Unfortunately, music is a male-dominated industry. It's not that there aren't plenty of women working in the industry, it's just, the higher up you go... it's like how women who play in the WNBA make so little, compared to men in the NBA.

Traditionally, animation has been dominated by men in the past. I don't know why it attracted guys.

My discussion is one that has gone all the way from Fistful of Dollars through Once Upon a Time in America. But if you look closely at all these films, you find in them the same meanings, the same humor, the same point of view, and, also, the same pains.

I immediately noticed there were far more male characters than female characters in the programs, even now, in the 21st century.

The number of women in power positions is a fraction of the number of men in such positions.

People are more used to seeing men who are masters at an instrument than women.

There are far too many men in politics and not enough elsewhere.

I think it was a subject matter that The Social Network didn't involve a lot of women. That's all I think it is.