Marion Cotillard Quotes

I'm an actor, but I'm also a feminist, and a lot of times in movies there are things that I cannot imagine happening that are on the screen and totally accepted. And I just go, 'Whaaat?'

Sometimes I try to sell shows with a female lead to networks, and that isn't something that's been a proven formula for them, so they reject it. I do feel like men get the funniest roles in movies.

Ah, well, do I wish that we lived in a world where gender didn't figure so prominently? Of course. Do I even think about myself as a woman when I go to make art? Of course not.

I feel like it's harder to get women to show up for movies.

I think there have always been male writers, female writers. As a reader, I never picked up a book and said, 'Oh, I can't read this - it's about a male,' and set it back down.

Why does 'writer' have no gender, but 'actor' has a gender? What is that?

I'm not going to advocate for a female leader who I'm voting for solely on the basis of gender. And I think a lot of people feel that way.

Why is being a woman so surprising? There are two sexes. A man and a woman. So, if it's not a man in a movie, what else was it going to be?

Lately, I've been in meetings regarding a new script idea I have. A studio executive asked me to change the female lead to a male, because... 'Women don't go to movies.' Really?

A woman doesn't have to direct a woman's film and a man doesn't have to direct a man's film; otherwise, where would we be?

Some jobs are for women, and some jobs are for men. It has nothing to do with how capable women are.

I don't see female characters as different or inferior to male characters.

For the audience, actors carry out specific roles of men and women through the character that they play out on screen. The director on the other hand is not doing a gender-specific job. So, it is irrelevant if the person who makes a particular film is a man or a woman.

One way I try to manage it is by not having a princess party for my daughter and trying to do things that are not so stereotyped. But if she's invited to a princess party, of course I'm not going to stop her going.

I think it would be folly to expect that women will ever dominate or even approach equal representation in a large number of areas simply because their aptitudes, abilities and interests are different for physiological reasons.

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.

What these books have conclusively proven is that the diffence between men and women is exactly 38 pages.

I do think the attempt to raise consciousness has succeeded. People are very aware of gender concerns now.

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

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

Once, power was considered a masculine attribute. In fact, power has no sex.

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

People don't always want to have females as leaders.

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

I think I happened to work with sort of a bunch of slightly difficult male directors when I was a kid. I've since worked with lots of male directors that I love, so I no longer see the distinction gender-wise.