“For the first and last time in my career, I had a nervous breakdown: My body began to shake uncontrollably, my breath was short and I began to cry and cry, unable to stop, as if I were throwing up tears. It was not because I would be naked with another woman. It was because I would be naked with her…”— Salma Hayek, nytimes.comTagged: Harvey Weinstein, sexual predators, Panic Attack
“Little did I know it would become my turn to say no. No to opening the door to him at all hours of the night, hotel after hotel, location after location, where he would show up unexpectedly, including one location where I was doing a movie he wasn’t even involved with. No to me taking a shower with…”— Salma Hayek, nytimes.comTagged: Harvey Weinstein, sexual predators, Consent, Entitlement, Rape Culture
“Once we started filming, the sexual harassment stopped but the rage escalated. We paid the price for standing up to him nearly every day of shooting.”— Salma Hayek, nytimes.comTagged: Harvey Weinstein, sexual predators, Entitlement
“Why do so many of us, as female artists, have to go to war to tell our stories when we have so much to offer? Why do we have to fight tooth and nail to maintain our dignity? I think it is because we, as women, have been devalued artistically to an indecent state, to the point where the film industry…”— Salma Hayek, nytimes.comTagged: Artist, Sexism, Hollywood
“In his eyes, I was not an artist. I wasn’t even a person. I was a thing: not a nobody, but a body.”— Salma Hayek, nytimes.comTagged: Sexual Assault, Harvey Weinstein, Objectification
“She had the courage to express herself while disregarding skepticism.”— Salma Hayek, nytimes.comTagged: What Others Think Does Not Matter, Express Yourself, Artist
“I think it is because we, as women, have been devalued artistically to an indecent state, to the point where the film industry stopped making an effort to find out what female audiences wanted to see and what stories we wanted to tell.”— Salma Hayek, nytimes.comTagged: Harvey Weinstein, MeToo, #metoo, sexual predators, Wolves in Sheep's Clothing
“According to a recent study, between 2007 and 2016, only 4 percent of directors were female and 80 percent of those got the chance to make only one film. In 2016, another study found, only 27 percent of words spoken in the biggest movies were spoken by women. And people wonder why you didn’t hear ou…”— Salma Hayek, nytimes.comTagged: Harvey Weinstein, MeToo, #metoo, sexual predators, Wolves in Sheep's Clothing