Ridley Scott Quotes

Very often, as an actress, there's some kind of stereotype, but with any good script, you should be able to swap the genders of all the characters, and it shouldn't make a huge difference.

I have always been interested in gender politics, so I'm not that keen on doing things that don't represent a truth about women.

Gender consciousness has become involved in almost every intellectual field: history, literature, science, anthropology. There's been an extraordinary advance.

I think male roles are generally much better written. So for actresses, we're always dealing with trying to inject a role with more truth than the writer possibly had in mind.

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

The thing about women playing boys is that we're not going to age, and we're not going to go through puberty in the middle of a long-running series.

I've always had difficulties with female characters.

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

All male roles are written in a way where you just hide what's going on inside you, and all female roles are written in a way where they expose everything.

Part of the problem is that many directors treat female characters too often as precious. Or they want to live in a fantasy world where they just do spinning hook kicks and knock out guys who are six foot four, and that doesn't work either.

Male playwrights, on the whole, are probably more interested in male characters. They need women characters to be the women in their lives or to be the domestic difficulty.

I get the feeling that characters are written female when they have to be, and all the other characters are male, and it doesn't occur to somebody that the lawyer, the best friend, the landlord, whoever, can be female.

Partly because women in the U.S. are better represented in the hierarchies, the culture wars over gender there have been particularly fierce.

In '39, they had no problem with it. But today, there's a huge issue with a movie that has no male movie stars.

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.

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?

History suggests that opposite gender debates, unfortunately, are accompanied by a host of expectations. Each candidate must tread carefully or risk running afoul of the gender stereotype they are subconsciously expected to conform to.

One of the weirdest questions I've gotten on the campaign trail is, 'Are you going to run as a woman?' I'm like, 'Do I have an option?' Like, what does this mean?

If you want to take gender studies, that’s fine, go to a private school. But I don’t want to subsidize that if that’s not going to get someone a job.”

Come on, you can't name a truck after a chick.

Nobody says 'a working man,' but they say, 'a working woman.' And there is still a strange connotation to that.

I always had more women working for me than men.

Far too often, I read a script where the girls are the girlfriend or the set dressing.

A lot of the things I get sent are the girlfriend or the wife or the assistant, and those are not that exciting to me.

Filmmaking is not about gender. You cannot ask a president in a festival like Cannes to have, like, five movies directed by women and five by men.