Susan Estrich Quotes

I don't agree with all-male leaderships. Men cannot be left to run things on their own. I think it's a thoroughly bad thing to have a men-only leadership.

I find it very interesting: when 90 percent of the critics that review films are men, how is that helpful when trying to create stories from a feminine point of view?

It doesn't matter how many women we get into game production. If the only people evaluating the work we do continue to be men, women's voices will never be heard.

There's no excuse for panel games, other TV comedy shows, or even live bills to be made up mainly of men.

There are relatively few role models for young people. We are in a society that is ruled by men.

If women ran Hollywood, 'The Hollywood Reporter' would have a 'Men in Entertainment' issue every year, and those jerks would have to write something.

The music industry is dominated by guys. I work with men 98 percent of the time - producers, arrangers, musicians, engineers.

It's a struggle every day to get people to invest financially in portrayals of women that aren't satisfying to straight white men.

Gender-dominated environments are not good... particularly in the financial sector where there are too few women. In gender-dominated environments, men have a tendency to... show how hairy chested they are, compared with the man who's sitting next to them. I honestly think that there should never be too much testosterone in one room.

It certainly has not been in my self-interest to defend men.

Men still control the news, both on and off camera.

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

I kind of feel like every time I do a film, it is me and an entire male ensemble cast.

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.

Female authors were still using male names when I was young, or they were neatly shoehorned into 'women's books' except for those few that men could always point at when the disparity was pointed out.

It doesn't help to just get women's opinions and then turn them over to an all-white-male engineering team.

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.

I think women in pop have been declawed and defanged, and they're just meant to look pretty and sing pretty. You don't really hear a female perspective on the radio, because so many of the songs are being written by men.

The women I know are smart, interesting people who aren't just there to service the men's stories, so I don't know why our art continues to do that.

I was watching something the other day which started out with five guys walking towards you and one woman, and there you go-it's still being dominated by the male society.

There are still so many movies made starring 50 men and one woman! A white male actor should never be allowed to complain about anything. Shut up and sit in the corner. I mean, seriously!

Music is a male-dominated field.

'The Daily Show,' which was created by women, Lizz Winstead and Madeleine Smithberg, has earned quite a bit of ink for the fact that it's written mostly by men.

An executive producer with an all-male writing staff once inadvertently revealed his deep, dark fear. While discussing a full-time position for me, he mused out loud, 'I wonder if having a woman in the room will change everything.' Of course, what he really meant was: 'I wonder if having a woman in the room will change me.'

It's awesome that you have a female CFO and a female GC, but if you look at the investing partners, and it's 15 dudes, I do think those people are going to get left behind if they don't get with where the world is going.