Always Quote by Lynne Ramsay

When I was a kid and going to the movies I was overwhelmed by the way women were always second-class citizens in the film.

— Brit Marling

I grew up knowing women are hilarious. There was a lot of respect.

— Jamie-Lee O'Donnell

But because it was able to balance that kind of humor with a sweet story and characters you really rooted for and also got…

— Jason Biggs

I am a passionate devotee of the Howard Hawks' screwball comedies of the 1930s and the 1940s, where I think that the relations between…

— Allison Pearson

I think the culture today is very, very different from what it was in the '60s, and I feel lucky that I grew up…

— Susanna Hoffs

I think there have always been funny women, from Carol Burnett to Joan Rivers. When the audience sees a woman, they innately know she's…

— Wendy Liebman

I grew up watching films that presented male perspectives of women.

— Parvathy

It was trying to break down the stereotypes and it was the kind of thing where, for the first time, women were on a…

— Siouxsie Sioux

The era of television in which I grew up was much simpler than now. Its conventions were quite transparent and fun to think about.…

— Joe Bradley

We didn't used to be so precious about women in comedy back in the old days.

— Paul Feig

When you start in the childhood period, when you begin to form a comic sense, it was the radio comedians - from the last…

— George Carlin

I've always had a thing for old movies, old Hollywood. I've always just loved watching Marilyn Monroe and Greta Garbo. In all of those…

— Tabatha Coffey