Kanika Dhillon Quotes

I was frustrated in general with the way women are always portrayed. And it's always through a man's eyes.

Bad women's comedies are made by men who didn't consult enough women.

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

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

Men have defined the parameters of every subject. All feminist arguments, however radical in intent or consequence, are with or against assertions or premises implicit in the male system, which is made credible or authentic by the power of men to name.

I was watching something the other day which started out with five guys walking towards you and one woman, and there you go-it's still being dominated by the male society.

I think a lot of the time in films, men get roles where they create their own destiny and women are just tools, supporters for that.

I have this theory that the likeability question comes up so much more with female characters created by female authors than it does with male characters and male authors.

What I had noticed is that there weren't a lot of women lining up to see a comic book movie, but they were going to line up to see 'The Devil Wears Prada,' which may have been something I wanted to address.

I'm so bored of reading scripts with these wonderfully complex male roles, yet the woman character just sits on the bed waiting for him to come home.

It's rare to see women in a film who are not somehow validated by a male or discussing a male or heartbroken by a male, or end up being happy because of a male. It's interesting to think about, and it's very true.

I was a fan of the idea of Red Sonja, but the gender politics of the character made her hard to read, for me, at times.

The baseline character in a lot of Western literature is a man. So we, as women, do a lot of suspending of our disbelief to experience a novel or a play or a movie through that male character.

I think all things are political... How women are portrayed - that's a big thing for me. What is this role trying to say about women? Is this woman weak or victimised, and, if so, do we get to understand why?

I was used to being the only woman in everything... I didn't even think about it. Men were my role models - there's nothing wrong with that.

I can't believe I managed to go through a liberal-arts and theater education and take all these women's-studies classes and never have addressed that the 'Muppets' were all boys, except for one pig who was obsessed with herself!

Society is patriarchal, so film industry by definition is certainly patriarchal. The male gaze dominated.

It happens a lot that women have to play the girlfriend role, which isn't as three-dimensional as the male role.

Take 'Ex Machina.' Everyone said it was one of the great feminist works of science fiction. But what I found disappointing is that everything about the main female character is defined by men.

An improv team would have eight guys and one woman; that was still pretty standard. If you were a woman improviser, it was actually kind of an advantage because, if you were halfway decent, you'd get a lot more stage time.

Usually when you see females in movies, they feel like they have these metallic structures around them, they are caged in by male energy.

I never say 'nagging.' I think that 'nagging' is a term that men created to get women to pipe down some. But, it's a trap that we've created. We created several terms for women to back you down. Nagging means to stop asking me questions, then we get away with more. I think it's a term men created.

Male supremacy is fused into the language, so that every sentence both heralds and affirms it.

People think anything done from a woman's perspective is only going to appeal to women.

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.