Andi Zeisler Quotes

It's very easy to co-opt subcultures, and I think that scene was very easily coopted, not just on a feminist level but on a capitalist level in general. It's hard to see now because, to me, now there are so many competing pluralistic subcultures.

Andi Zeisler

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• I call myself a feminist, not a feminist filmmaker. If somebody asked me if I had a feminist sensibility it would be pretty hard to deny, but is it the theme of my work? Not necessarily. I'm interested in a lot of things.

  

  Callie Khouri
  • Work
  • Pretty
  • Me

• I'm not into the whole showbiz scene.

  

  Samantha Mumba
  • Scene
  • Whole
  • Showbiz

• I think feminism is that you just have to stick it all out. I remember this one time when someone interviewed me, and I was young, and they said, 'Do you see yourself as a feminist?' And I was like, 'I don't know. I'm not really comfortable calling myself a feminist.'

  

  Yuna
  • Time
  • Remember
  • Myself

• I think we all remember Emma Peel from 'The Avengers,' the feminist icon that she was in the late '60s.

  

  Natalie Dormer
  • She
  • Remember
  • Think

• I think it's foolish to interview someone who's just promoting a movie that they're in and ask if they consider themselves a feminist. That's not about feminism; that's about the journalist wanting to gauge how much this person is aware of the world or is aware of the feminist movement.

  

  Tavi Gevinson
  • World
  • Movie
  • Think

• I'm happy to say I'm a feminist. Being a feminist is just believing in equal rights. Man, woman, gay, straight, black, white - we're all in it together.

  

  Aaron Taylor-Johnson
  • Together
  • Happy
  • Man

• There was a bad patch in the '80s and early '90s when feminist thinking had become sort of a monopoly and had developed a series of litmus tests.

  

  Naomi Wolf
  • Thinking
  • Bad
  • Feminist

• I didn't think of 'Thelma and Louise' as a feminist movie.

  

  Callie Khouri
  • Movie
  • Think
  • Feminist

• No, we didn't shoot... in the ones that I did there were hardly any sex... there were suggestions of sex scenes but we never actually shot a sex scene as such.

  

  Val Guest
  • Never
  • Sex
  • Scene

• I'm not at all an active feminist. On the contrary, I'm a bourgeois. I love family life, I love doing the same thing every day.

  

  Carla Bruni
  • Life
  • Family
  • Feminist

• A feminist man is a bit like a vegetarian: it's the humanitarian principle he's defending, I suppose.

  

  Rachel Cusk
  • Man
  • Like
  • Feminist

• We have allowed the sexual debate to be defined by women, and that's not right. Men must speak, and speak in their own voices, not voices coerced by feminist moralists.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Men
  • Women
  • Feminist

• Is a man’s body at stake? Any time a man is asked to work to pay child support, he is using his body, his time, his life - not for nine months, but for a minimum of 18 to 21 years. So the motto of the feminist with integrity is, 'It’s a woman’s and man’s right to choose because it is a woman’s and man’s body at stake.'

  

  Warren Farrell
  • Life
  • Time
  • Work

• During the feminist seventies men were caught between a rock and a hard-on; in the fathering eighties they are caught between good hugs and bad hugs.

  

  Florence King
  • Good
  • Men
  • Bad

• I'm a radical feminist, not the fun kind.

  

  Andrea Dworkin
  • Fun
  • Feminist

• Maybe I'll be a feminist in my old age.

  

  Bjork
  • Age
  • Feminist

• I don't think in a male or female way. I don't differentiate between male and female. I never have. I'm not considered a feminist.

  

  Martha Stewart
  • Feminist

• I'm a feminist, of course, and I feel as if I'm very politically correct, although I do question what's P.C. and what's not - I don't just accept what I'm told.

  

  Mary Beth Patterson
  • Question
  • Feminist

• Doing a scene is like opening a bottle. If it doesn't open one way, try another - perhaps even give it up for another bottle?

  

  Marilyn Monroe
  • Way
  • Scene
  • Bottle

• Habit is, of all the plants of human growth, the one that has the least need of nutritious soil in order to live, and is the first to appear on the most seemingly barren rock.

  

  Marcel Proust
  • Rock
  • Human
  • Habit

• The hand that punched is the hands that gives compassion

  

  David Avidan
  • Giving
  • Hands
  • Compassion

• I either run or try to play basketball every day.

  

  Harold Ford, Jr.
  • Day
  • Everyday
  • Basketball

• Growing up, my birthday was always Confederate Memorial Day. It helped to create this profound sense of awareness about the Civil War and the 100 years between the Civil War and the civil rights movement and my parents' then-illegal and interracial marriage.

  

  Natasha Trethewey
  • Up
  • War
  • Parents

• It's very easy to co-opt subcultures, and I think that scene was very easily coopted, not just on a feminist level but on a capitalist level in general. It's hard to see now because, to me, now there are so many competing pluralistic subcultures.

  

  Andi Zeisler
  • Feminist
  • Scene
  • Subcultures