Doe Quote by Daryl Hannah

The ratio of male to female characters in movies has been exactly the same since 1946. So if you've ever had people say, you…

— Geena Davis

It's tougher for women than men in Hollywood, period, if you ask me. As with most professions, women have generally not found equality with…

— Nazanin Boniadi

It's mad that in pretty much any other industry equality is expected as a standard, but in the acting industry, because there are such…

— Charlotte Hope

Real equality in films is going to take time and will directly reflect our society. So ladies, please speak up at home, at work,…

— Barbara Crampton

Economics drive the creative, and for a long time, movies about men were just considered 'movies,' whereas movies about women were considered niche and…

— Susanna Fogel

I think you have to take the whole idea of wage equality out of the film industry.

— Jessica Chastain

American commercial cinema has long been dominated by men, but I don’t think there has ever been another time when women have been as…

— Manohla Dargis

I don't really understand why we are paid less than the male actors, because we put equal efforts, and recent past has shown that…

— Aditi Rao Hydari

The film world is far more male-dominated. I mean, the numbers are staggering at the level of how many people on set there are,…

— Emma Donoghue

My male counterpart will get paid ten times more than me - 10 times. Not double, but 10 times for the same job. We…

— Hilary Swank

There's no doubt that the patriarchy that we live in also controls the movie industry. The heads of the studios are men, and it's…

— Ellen Burstyn

Women were real box office stars in the '40s, more so than men. People loved to see women's films. I think it was better…

— Gwyneth Paltrow