I think women secretly yearn for the return of John Wayne and don't even know it.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Hollywood usually doesn't have strong woman in films like that, and it's stupid, so for the most part they're usually being directed and written by men.
It's sad that women characters have lost so much ground in popular movies. Didn't 'Thelma and Louise' prove that women want to see women doing things on film? Thelma and Louise were in a classic car; they were being chased by cops; they shot up a truck - and women loved it.
There are few films where you have women really driving the plot.
I think that weird rumor or idea in Hollywood that people don't want to see female-driven movies couldn't be further from the truth. Women buy tickets to movies.
I think a lot of the time in films, men get roles where they create their own destiny and women are just tools, supporters for that.
What bugs me is that movies don't reflect how interesting and vibrant women are. We don't treasure women as they get older.
When you look at movies like 'Titanic,' they make money because of women. They go to see it and bring their men, too.
I think it kind of took being a character actor to kind of now enter into leading ladies.
I'm just glad that the whole John Wayne persona of a man is sort of old school now, because I'd never be able to do that. If that was the going rate today, I wouldn't be working.
Nobody is surprised that women writers accurately represent male characters over and over again, no doubt because everybody knows that women understand men much better than vice-versa.