Taapsee Pannu Quotes

A lot of times, women are pigeonholed.

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

To generalize on women is dangerous. To specialize on them is infinitely worse.

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.

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

Especially with girls, people always want to put them in little brackets.

With a male-centric show, the women are usually very two-dimensional.

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.

I really hate having to put 'female' in front of any title, because it puts us in some kind of weird category for handicapped people or something.

I'd like to play passionate women, but no one will let me.

If you are a 19-year-old woman, there are very specific things that directors and the people in positions of power in the industry - who tend to be older men - are going to want you to be and do. They are not going to want some chatty, difficult, slightly spoilt girl.

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

Women's director! Well, I'm very pleased to be considered a master of anything, but remember, for every Jill there was a Jack. People like to pigeonhole you - it's a shortcut, I guess, but once they do, you're stuck with it.

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

Stupid as a man, say the women: cowardly as a woman, say the men. Stupidity in a woman is unwomanly.

In a lot of TV shows out there, the women are the weak ones, and the men are the strong ones.

The much vaunted male logic isn't logical, because they display prejudices against half the human race that are considered prejudices according to any dictionary definition.

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.

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

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.

I get asked why there aren't more female directors all the time. I'm kind of reluctant to talk about it. That's not because I think the question is irrelevant or stupid. It's just that there are so many mitigating factors.

I've always been told that women know everything. Is that not accurate?

There are still people who have an issue working with a woman director. Women can be viewed as 'difficult' even though they work in the same way as men.

Men treat men differently than they would a woman.

The emotional, sexual, and psychological stereotyping of females begins when the doctor says: It's a girl.