Karyn Kusama Quotes

I think I am a little jealous of women who have great girlfriends as adults.

I feel like a lot of the female relationships I see on TV or in movies are in some way free of the kind of jealousy and anxiety and posturing that has been such a huge part of my female friendships, which I hope lessens a little bit with age.

I think female-female relationships interest me so much more because they're so encoded. There is kind of a psychic element that happens within groups of women.

I grew up in a house of all girls, which was interesting. I think it made me a lot less catty because a lot of girls, especially who are around my age, are very catty and very mean to each other.

I find I really put careful consideration into my friendships with women because the relationships can be so sensitive. Let's face it: some women can be down right catty. This is what makes me cautious, but also what makes my true friendships so dear to me.

Women do love each other; this whole women-against-each other, 'Dynasty' thing... we're not all after each other.

Girls are so often pitted against each other as enemies or adversaries. We even see it in 'Us' magazine: Who wore it better?

I think it's very rare that you see girl friendships on television. It's always cattiness and all that drama.

It is mind-boggling to me that there are so few movies about female friendship, considering women make up half the movie-going population.

I really enjoy writing about female friendship. It's an endlessly interesting dynamic for me.

I think, growing up, the female friendships that I saw on television were portrayed as catty and vicious.

It's become my lifetime passion as a writer to try to show female friendships in the way that I see them, which is as emotional and connected and deep.

A lot of girls don't know how to get along, and they're always constantly in competition with each other, and everything is a huge fight. Every girl just wants to be better than every other girl.

Girls get competitive, as though there's only one spot in the world for everything _ but that's not true. We need to stick together and see there's more to life than pleasing men. It's important not to cut yourself off from female friendships. I think sometimes girls get scared of other girls, but you need each other.

There are so few women in general who aren't completely threatened and confused by other women's success. It's very disappointing.

You always hear how female artists don't get along, how they hate each other - but that hasn't been my experience.

The last thing we need is women on TV hating each other.

I like to write about women, not so much about the way they relate to men, but about the way they relate to each other.

I'm excited about there being more of a sisterhood these days. Back in the '90s there was a lot of hate - the women I looked up to as artists were dissing me! It's not so patriarchal these days - there's more love and a lot less hate!

It's sad how people want to see us females go against each other. Never been for that. Never will.

'Once Upon a Time', 'Mirror Mirror' - those shows and films focus on women and their conflict with one another. What the heck is going on in contemporary fairy tales? Women are not dominating the world; they are not evil.

When I started on 'Big Bang,' I was the only girl; I felt like I had four brothers. Then Melissa Rauch and Mayim Bialik came on the show, and we got really close. Because of that, I'm not so quick to judge other women, and now I have all these amazing new girlfriends.

It's quite difficult to write about female friendship without it seeming to be a very niche subject. It's a difficult balance.

In TV, a woman helping another woman break in? Not that common.

I love 'First Wives Club' and 'Death Becomes Her' and movies about women like that.