Son Ye-jin Quotes

I can't stomach most of the movies about women.

I'm not interested in seeing a film just made by a woman - not unless she is looking for new images.

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

We don't have enough young, female antiheroes. We don't accept women as antiheroes the way we do the men.

I think women are sick and tired of being portrayed as victims, a lot of the time anyway, the bulk of their time on film.

Women remain dramatically under-represented as characters in film when compared to their representation in the U.S. population.

There is still a funny notion that women should not write violent fiction.

There aren't enough good roles for strong women. I wish we had more female writers. Most of the female characters you see in films today are the 'poor heartbroken girl.'

Every single line, every single thing has to be fought over. There's kind of like an intrinsic doubt from absolutely everyone in my crew, my producer, everyone. It's not just the film industry - it's a worldwide thing. It's the culture of the world to doubt women.

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

The truth is, there are so few female roles in movies. That's really limiting. As an actor, you wanna be able to sink your teeth into something. You don't want to just be the best friend. You don't want to just be the girlfriend.

As a woman, I'd be uneasy about being given the power to determine what is insulting to women in general.

I'm personally fed up with people seeing women and girls cast as victims.

The feminist movement is not about success for women. It is about treating women as victims and about telling women that you can't succeed because society is unfair to you, and I think that's a very unfortunate idea to put in the minds of young women because I believe women can do whatever they want.

We are used to women's narratives being defined through the male perspective. I challenge that as a concept.

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

You get angry and frustrated wondering, 'Are there enough parts for women?'

Women's roles in the movies remain, for the most part, girlfriends, mothers, wives.

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.

I think we're still struggling to find a way of depicting women that doesn't objectify them.

You have woman filmmakers, who have a male gaze. They play according to the rules of the patriarchal system and make a success of it.

I don't understand this concept of women-oriented films or stories based on women, because nobody uses the term, a 'man-oriented' film. Why do you have to separate girls from boys?

A woman's desire is either terrifying, or it's ignored.

I hate when they portray women as just sex symbols in short skirts, running around playing dumb. I refuse to watch such films or be in such films.

Women are so appallingly represented in movies.