Film is not a woman's medium. If you weren't the hottest kid in town, men stayed away from you.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Most of the women in film are there to be beautiful to the man.
It's absurd: half the movie audience are women, but Hollywood bosses are still aiming for men who are 20.
The cool thing is that, unlike film, the theatre roles for women get better and better as you get older.
There are few films where you have women really driving the plot.
It helps being from somewhere other than Hollywood, not having grown up with that sense of film-making. I really wasn't exposed to that as a young woman.
When I started out, there were three things that made film people look at me with condescension, I was young, I was black, and I was female. I have won a certain respect, but I think the film community still sees directing as a male job.
The irony is that the more unapologetically sexist men are in movies, the more women tend to be attracted to them in person.
Film, I think, is my medium.
Film is a very intimate medium.
Unless you burst into movies as a sex goddess, you're likely to play wives and mothers. I came into movies as a teenager in 'They Shoot Horses, Don't They' (1969) playing a pregnant waif from the Ozarks. I didn't get a chance to burst into movies in 'Body Heat.' My career isn't based on having a 23-inch waist and a big bust, though I do.