The Queen of all things glorious, Barbra Streisand, was at the Tribeca Film Festival this weekend and spoke with director Robert Rodriguez about her own experiences as a director, arguing that sexism cost her Oscar nominations for Yentl and Prince of Tides, reports Page Six.

“There were a lot of older people,” she said. “They don’t want to see a woman director,” adding: “I don’t know how many women wanted to see a woman director.”

The legendary actress also said that jealousy and competitiveness might be partially to blame for women turning against other women filmmakers, citing that women gave much harsher criticism on Yentl, which she directed in 1983.

“None of [the female critics] talked about what the movie was trying to say,” she said. “It was not about what the movie was about — a celebration of women and all they could be.”

Barbra spoke on one critic, NY Times Janet Maslin, who kinda-sorta poked fun at Barbra’s use of a “pillbox-contoured designer yarmulke” in the Film, a critic that still irks Barbra the wrong way today. She later stated that the yarmulke was, actually, authentic to the film’s 20th century Polish setting.

“I must have been more hurt than I thought, because I didn’t want to direct for years,” she admitted. “Not enough women are directing now. I love when I see a woman’s name on the film, and then I want to see it be good.”

H/T: Page Six