Romola Garai Quotes

I look at Woody Allen's prolific career of 30 or 40 films, and I'm watching the clock. I'd love to work at a clip of a film a year. We don't get the benefit of the doubt, particularly black women. We're presumed incompetent, whereas a white male is assumed competent until proven otherwise. They just think the guy in the ball hat and the T-shirt over the thermal has got it, whether he's got it or not. For buzzy first films by a white male, the trajectory is a 90-degree angle. For us, it's a 30-degree angle.

It is odd there are many movies with many men. But generally movies have one woman, or maybe the older woman and the younger girl.

If you're a man and you ask questions, you're a genius; if you're a woman, you're difficult.

Hmm, can I be obvious and say there is probably a double standard for male vs. female directors? Sadly, I think that's actually the case. And it probably stems from the fact that there are proportionately so many fewer women directors than men ones that each project is perhaps more closely scrutinized for its content.

Whatever women do, they must do twice as well as men to be thought half as good. Luckily, this is not difficult.

In our society, people look at women who are tenacious, smart, attractive, and talented and for whatever reason say, 'There must be something wrong with that equation. She couldn't possibly be all of those things at once.'

If women were as good as men they'd be a lot better!

We can celebrate how far we've come from our sexist past when women and men are equally represented in the pages of science fiction anthologies.

How insulting is it to suggest the best thing women can do is raise other people to do incredible things?

I think a lot of people love to convolute what everyone else does in order to disempower women.

I am a woman. I write SF. And it's not acceptable to treat me as anything less than an equal. I won't stand for it.

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.

Comedy and drama are less ageist media for women than stuff like light entertainment. But in TV or film, women have to be more pleasing on the eye than men.

Much-derided chick lit, chick flicks, and chick magazines have left ambitious women in a bind. Why is it that I, a young woman, can read 'GQ,' enjoy 'Fight Club,' and subscribe to 'Thrillist,' while the idea of a guy doing the same with 'Glamour,' '27 Dresses' and 'Daily Candy' is nearly unheard of?

I get asked why there aren't more female directors all the time. I'm kind of reluctant to talk about it. That's not because I think the question is irrelevant or stupid. It's just that there are so many mitigating factors.

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

After 'Kidulthood,' I was called in to a meeting and told that I didn't write women very well. I was very annoyed.

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

Because I am a woman, I must make unusual efforts to succeed. If I fail, no one will say, "She doesn't have what it takes." They will say, "Women don't have what it takes.”

No one watches 'Taxi Driver' and says, 'Oh, it's a male-oriented film.' No one looks at nine-tenths of the films out there that are headlined by men and say, 'It's a male-oriented film.'

Oftentimes in films, the female character, if she's not the protagonist - and often, even if she is - feels like an imitation of what a woman is.

I'm working hard to break free of stereotypes that the film industry has created and nurtured around women.

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

It was a feeling of loyalty to our own sex and an enthusiasm to have every degradation that was put upon our sex removed.

Why is it when a woman makes a film or a movie stars a female cast it is labeled women-centric because it is not white, male and middle-class men?