Sarah Gadon Quotes

Men project their fantasies onto me; they live them through who they think I am.

I think it was Elisabeth Shue who said that if you start a movie with a woman seen through a man's eyes, that woman is objectified by him throughout.

For example, the equivalent of a woman being treated as a sex object is a man being treated as a success object.

Even after they had stopped modeling for Playboy and had settled down with other men to raise families of their own, Hugh Hefner still considered them his women, and in the bound volumes of his magazine he would always possess them.

How do I know about a man's needs for a sex symbol? I'm a girl.

It's always fun to walk down the street with or behind a really beautiful woman, for no reason other than to see how the world reacts to them.

You want women to think of you in a sexy manner. It's all part of the business. It drives ticket sales. It's all a part of it.

'Women's fashion' is a euphemism for fashion created by men for women.

Well, I think mostly we're dressing for men.

I think I just never wanted to be the creepy guy where people say, 'Why do his leading ladies keep getting younger and younger, and why do they think he's so hot even though we know that the girl who's playing this part actually has a handsome boyfriend?'

Most women are wise to the fact that lots of men love a cat-fight, and thus go out of their way not to give them one.

Sad old blokes, I'm told, now dream of me with a whip in hand.

Zhang Yimou is always going to need young, pretty girls for his films. But I don't really concern myself with what Zhang Yimou's next starlet looks like.

Most of the women in film are there to be beautiful to the man.

A lot of directors idealize their leading ladies or turn them into these objects of sexuality and beauty.

Men don't come up to you to just talk. We come up to you with a plan. We're looking across the room at you, and we don't care about your hopes and dreams. We don't care about what your future holds. We saw something we wanted.

Most men would love to be stared at by women. Don't doubt me on this. And my guess is that most women are actually intrigued by it and have developed techniques and skills for dealing with it. Don't doubt me.

So often, women are there just to be looked at and be objectified for the titillation of the male audience.

Usually superheroes with all their powers and action-driven narratives are supposed to appeal to boys and men more than women; and as an extension of that, it is a given that the creators of these characters are primarily men.

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.

Young action heroines feel in service of male gaze, rather than being the full complexity of a human being.

I feel myself in ways to be the product of internalized male gaze.

The Asian woman in Hollywood movies has usually been one of two extremes - totally submissive or totally ruthless. In either case her primary function has been decorative.

'Have You in My Wilderness,' the title track, is about the idea of possessing a person, or saying, 'You're mine; you're in my world now.' I was drawn to that as an idea less from my own experience than from listening to music written by men that was kind of male gaze-y.

'Jism' is what it is because of my feminine gaze... And I believe strongly that my female audiences deserve eye candy as much as my male audiences do!