Bryan Singer Quotes

I feel like it's harder to get women to show up for movies.

You're allowed to make things for women on television and there's not like... you don't have to go through the humiliation of having made something directed at women. There it's just accepted, whereas if it's a feature, it's like 'So, talk to me about chick flicks.'

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

Women remain dramatically under-represented as characters in film when compared to their representation in the U.S. population.

Women are half the population of the world, and yet there are so few female characters on-screen.

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.

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.

I was frustrated in general with the way women are always portrayed. And it's always through a man's eyes.

A lot of newsrooms have thought very carefully about how they cover race. I don't think the same conversations have gone on regarding women.

Every single one of us who has been a 'Woman in Film' for more than five minutes is sick of the phrase 'Women in Film.'

An improv team would have eight guys and one woman; that was still pretty standard. If you were a woman improviser, it was actually kind of an advantage because, if you were halfway decent, you'd get a lot more stage time.

Get more women producers, writers, directors. Why should we expect men to do it for us? They can't.

I've always been slightly hesitant about generalizing movies made by men and women being different in their nature; I think movies by each director are different. Having said that, I think that it's kind of disgraceful that there aren't more female directors.

People are always telling me that boys won't go to girls' movies and vice versa. It's not true.

In television, women can really run anything. It can be a comedy, it can be a drama, it can be genre, it can be anything. But in films, women are still getting to the top.

There's a lot of good roles for men, always, and for very young girls. But for women, not so many.

I've heard people say that 'The Blair Witch Project' is a feminist movie because there's a woman in charge and I've heard it called a completely anti-feminist movie because this woman screws everything up. Who cares really? It's just a movie.

There are really very few roles for women in films in which you can also make a living.

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 the same energy went into marketing movies to women as they do on the other demographics we might see more of a spike.

It's a better time for actresses on TV than on film.

I'm perfectly happy when I look out at an audience and it's all women. I always think it's kind of odd, but then, more women than men, I think, read and write poetry.

The most frustrating thing is picking up a script and loving the roles in it except the female ones... It's really annoying and something I've striven to change in the industry.

I've been trying to find women writers for my staff for a while now and I have three women on my staff and three guys so it's pretty equal. I don't know why that is. It's been the same thing for a while. It's hard for female comedians to stand out. That's weird. That's a shame.

If a studio sees that a female can bring in audiences, then they're going to make movies with that person.