I think at the end of the day this movie is respecting what we as women go through as we grow up. The experiences, what we deal with, other women, things about images, things that we deal with as women.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
The stronger the participation of the female characters, the better the movie. They knew that in the old days, when women stars were equally as important as men.
I'd like to think at some point instead of it being a woman's film or a man's film, it is just a great story, and both sexes can go and get the same enjoyment out of it.
Women's roles in the movies remain, for the most part, girlfriends, mothers, wives.
A movie about a weak, vulnerable woman can be feminist if it shows a real person that we can empathize with.
Some men have a silly theory about beautiful women - that somewhere along the line they'll turn into a monster. That movie gave them a chance to watch it happen.
It gave me a lot of pleasure and pride that 90 percent of the crew for 'Monsoon Wedding,' and most of my film, are women. We get the work done, you know, much lesser play of ego... And I really believe in harmony, I believe in working in a spirit of egolessness and that the film is bigger than all of us.
The cool thing is that, unlike film, the theatre roles for women get better and better as you get older.
I don't know if my films are about women in a kind of frolicking - here's a grab bag of women's issues. They are about women of substance with very particular stories.
I think that female roles, they can be victims, they can be sympathetic, they can be in pain, they can be in suffering - but they can't be ugly. I think there's so much fear surrounding that, that it makes a film unlikeable, that it won't sell.
What bugs me is that movies don't reflect how interesting and vibrant women are. We don't treasure women as they get older.