Susan Vreeland Quotes

Women's art, political art - those categorisations perpetuate a certain kind of marginality which I'm resistant to. But I absolutely define myself as a feminist.

Women are never the protagonists; we're always reactionary against everything that's done to us. I like people who write for women that have got a bit more about them.

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

With 'Holes' I was troubled that there weren't very many female characters. I tried to put them in where I could. But the setting didn't lend itself to girls.

It's interesting to play a female character who's not ever using feminine wiles to get things done.

Writers write these male stereotypes, and it makes it ten times more interesting if a woman says the lines.

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

I became interested in educating people in the variety of ways in which women can express their emotion. Which is much easier to do in a large role than in a supporting role to a male protagonist. In general, the women in a supporting role to a male protagonist - cry a lot.

It's not often you get female characters who don't fit into a box.

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.

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

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 consider myself a political artist, but I am political just by nature of being a woman.

I see the portrayal of any believable female character as feminist.

Just like how male actors get to play varied characters, I would also like to play characters that people don't normally see female characters portraying on screen.

Feminist art... will take the great human themes – love, death, heroism, suffering, history itself – and render them fully human.

I also loved that there [in Into the Forest] was a beautiful balance to it, where they were strong and survivors and doing things in the film that we normally only see men do, but they were still human and vulnerable, and they still broke and had moments of weakness. That's something that we don't often get to see in these films, either.

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.

What I love about 'Mockingjay, Part 1' is that President Coin or Cressida could have easily been played by a man, and if you look at 'Interstellar,' the Anne Hathaway or Jessica Chastain roles would have been men years ago.

But there are still only certain film genres where a woman can stand out, be heroic, be the centerpiece.

I'm a pretty feminized geek, you know? I have that point of view, I grew up around a lot of girls, so I'm pretty sensitive to that. But I don't dare say 'I know how women think.'

I won't take parts where the female character has no substance.

I think for a long time it seemed like working in an art form and being a feminist meant portraying women in a perfect, angelic light. And there's nothing feminist about that.

We 'chicks' have munched our popcorn while romantic comedies became just comedies, and then each female protagonist got recast for Matthew McConaughey or Seth Rogan.