Paul Feig Quotes

For years, it's driven me crazy that women don't have better roles, especially in comedies. I know so many funny women but I always felt... misogynist streak is too strong a term - but a dismissiveness.

The representation of women in hip-hop has long been so flagrantly unkind.

I've done shows before where it's supposed to be about the women, and then it quickly turns out it isn't.

Guys pit female rappers against each other because female rappers - if you haven't noticed of late - are a lot more interesting than guys.

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

It's interesting that, given our culture has so many words that refer to women in a truly derogatory fashion, it's 'lady' - a term that has conferred social respect on our gender for over a thousand years - that has women up in arms.

What bugs me is that movies don't reflect how interesting and vibrant women are. We don't treasure women as they get older.

Women always feel like they're being stared at and judged, and rightfully so.

There's a remarkable amount of sexism on TV. When male characters are flawed, they're interesting, deep and complex. But when female characters are flawed, they're just a mess. It's good to put more flawed but interesting female characters out there because it promotes equality.

Film is not a woman's medium. If you weren't the hottest kid in town, men stayed away from you.

People don't want to see women doing things they don't think women should do.

I always laugh when people call me a misogynist. I... love women! Everything I do is to impress women. And if I hated women, why would half my fans be women?

Women are unfit for parliament and parliament is unfit for them.

Control of females is mandatory for a successful, civilized, humane and compassionate society

You—the outside world—will be told that it is our “culture” and “religion” to do X, Y, and Z to women. Understand that whoever deemed it as such was never a woman.

Women belong in the bedroom and the kitchen, in that order.

If there's ever a woman who's smart, funny, or witty, people are afraid of that, so they don't write that. They only write parts for women where they let everything be steamrolled over them, where they let people wipe their feet all over them.

You can't say that we need to give women more roles, and then when we do, say that they're only there because men want to look at them.

There is no denying the fact that we live in a patriarchal society, and Bollywood is a patriarchal industry for sure. And it is not too fond of women with opinions.

I certainly think sometimes when it comes to sexism, some Sky presenters need to look at themselves.

The notion that somehow women are wildly different infuriates me.

Hollywood usually doesn't have strong woman in films like that, and it's stupid, so for the most part they're usually being directed and written by men.

Most people aren't familiar enough with what actually goes on in professional wrestling to know just how badly women are treated in WWE narratives.

Anyone who says he can see through women is missing a lot.

I think the media's a little frightened of women.