Rick Famuyiwa Quotes

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!

I feel like, all things aside, it's a really great time to be a woman. And I don't want to hear stories from, like, white dudes anymore. Like, not really. I want to hear stories from women.

I know how hard it is to be a woman, especially a black woman.

I think being a woman is like being Irish. Everyone says you're important and nice, but you take second place all the same.

I think that, by and large, the predominant voice we hear in rock music is a white male voice.

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

To me, it's disheartening when you have someone take away everything you've done as a woman because of a man.

A woman's desire is either terrifying, or it's ignored.

I'm not finding fault or blaming the industry, but the heroes have always dominated the film industry.

Time's up on cheesy, lesser, boring roles for females in the stories that we try to tell.

Any woman who has a great deal to offer the world is in trouble. And if she's a black woman, seh's in deep trouble.

My own contentious relationship with gaming continued through high school and college: I still enjoyed playing games from time to time, but I always found myself pushed away by the sexism that permeated gaming culture. There were constant reminders that I didn't really belong.

The problem is with men. I know I shouldn't say this, but they've shrouded and hidden women to hide their incompetence.

I remember becoming aware of women's issues and inequality. It became glaringly clear to me when I was living in America that women are regarded as less intelligent than men.

Saying women aren't funny is now like saying Asians can't drive or saying black people have bad credit. It's just really, like, so obsolete.

Male supremacy is fused into the language, so that every sentence both heralds and affirms it.

Clever and attractive women do not want to vote; they are willing to let men govern as long as they govern men.

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.

I can hear the roar of women's silence.

Women get the attention when we get into the men's arena, and that's sad.

We should be writing more great roles for women, period. Another problem is that movies are generally made for 14-year-old boys, and 14-year-old boys want to watch 25-year-old action heroes.

This is still a man's profession, with a lot of men who intellectually and emotionally have not accepted that the military could be women's work.

The industry is quite chauvinistic generally. Expectations of women, girls, what they should look like, how they should be, what they should say, what they should wear, how their hair should be, what colour their skin should be.

If a test of civilization be sought, none can be so sure as the condition of that half of society over which the other half has power.

Film is not a woman's medium. If you weren't the hottest kid in town, men stayed away from you.