I prefer to avoid the phrase 'strong women' when talking about female characters and the lack thereof or the need therefore, because… — Zawe Ashton Copy Share Image
I think that there are a lot of male writers and directors in Hollywood, and a lot of the female characters you… — Emily Ratajkowski Copy Share Image
I thought about ["Summer Sisters" ] so often as I was writing about these female characters who love each other and hated… — Lena Dunham Copy Share Image
For the most part, I was surprised by the representation of female characters onscreen. I do hope that when we include more… — Jessica Chastain Copy Share Image
You know, that kind of coldness, you know. And I think, yeah, I think that definitely helped. The female characters on the… — Matt Robinson Copy Share Image
Whether consciously or unconsciously, I felt myself drawn to writing a female character who was pretty flawed and not very virtuous or… — Leni Zumas Copy Share Image
I love Dexter. I love Top Chef. I can't wait for it to come back. I love Friday Night Lights. I think… — Alyssa Milano Copy Share Image
Often, as a young actress, you find yourself being the only girl in a room full of men... and one of the… — Rachael Taylor Copy Share Image
I am not one to go for traditional female roles, because I don't think traditionally female characters are very interesting, and I… — Jessica Chastain Copy Share Image
I love writing about men. To get by in the world you have to know how men think. Not that all guys… — Bonnie Jo Campbell Copy Share Image
I was of the generation where most of the Disney princesses and female characters were not girls that I admired. They just… — Angelina Jolie Copy Share Image
I think I'm drawn to female characters partly because they don't have as easy or as obvious a relationship to power in… — Todd Haynes Copy Share Image
I think every time you take a female character, a black character, a Hispanic character, a gay character, and make that the… — Len Wein Copy Share Image
When men write women, they tend to write women the way they want women to be, or the way they resent women… — Simon Pegg Copy Share Image
I'm just hoping that as I get older, and as more and more movies get made by female directors, what we start… — Karyn Kusama Copy Share Image
I think you leave your imprint on every screenplay. I like to bring my experience as a woman to all my female… — Allison Schroeder Copy Share Image
Just look at the history of cinema. The most reproduced male character is probably the hero and the most reproduced female character… — Ruben Ostlund Copy Share Image
Though I had not been offered a truckload of projects post the release of 'Mayaanadhi,' the handful that came to me had… — Aishwarya Lekshmi Copy Share Image
If it were not somewhat fanciful to suppose that every human excellence is presented, as it were, in one kind of being,… — Wilhelm von Humboldt Copy Share Image
As a writer, as much as I try, I can't stop writing female characters. They have so much more to offer; they… — Tate Taylor Copy Share Image
I would love to do a chick flick sometime soon, a film with strong female characters - when I say strong, I… — Anushka Sharma Copy Share Image
I just don't feel like I've seen very many movies about 17-year-old girls where the question is not, 'Will she find the… — Greta Gerwig Copy Share Image
“God, woman.” He closed his fist, not bothering to count off the dozens of other things she shouldn’t do. “You give me… — Cristin Harber Copy Share Image
I've been writing American history for a long time, and I've had a hard time finding strong, interesting female characters. There are… — H. W. Brands Copy Share Image
I get the feeling that characters are written female when they have to be, and all the other characters are male, and… — Geena Davis Copy Share Image
“If I spoke all I think on this point, if I gave my real opinion of some first-rate female characters in first-rate… — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
I approach writing female characters the same why I approach writing male characters. I never think I'm writing about women, I think… — Jeffrey Eugenides Copy Share Image
I don't think there's any great mystery to writing female characters, so long as you talk to them. If you lived in… — Ken Follett Copy Share Image
“Romance novels feature nuanced portrayals of female characters having adventures, making choices, and accepting themselves just as they are. When we say… — Maya Rodale Copy Share Image
I can't imagine writing a book without some strong female characters, unless that was a demand of the setting. I actually tend… — William Gibson Copy Share Image
“In writing, a good guy must never break any of the Ten Commandments. A bad guy must break every one. That's why… — Kimberly Black Copy Share Image
The creators of kids' media had no idea they were leaving out that many female characters. They were in utter shock that… — Geena Davis Copy Share Image
The female characters in my books tend to be independent, frisky, spunky, witty, emotionally strong, erotically daring, spiritually oriented and intellectually generous;… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
After my first book, many of my readers came back to tell me that the female characters I had created were not… — Ravi Subramanian Copy Share Image
“The day came when she discovered sex, sensuality, and literature; she said, 'I submit! Let my life be henceforth ruled by poetry.… — Roman Payne Copy Share Image
I'm attracted to films that have strong female characters because there are strong female characters in my life. That's my own reality,… — Ryan Gosling Copy Share Image
I'm very conditioned by my surroundings, by the influences of social media, by the television I watch. And I always found, growing… — Esme Creed-Miles Copy Share Image
I think it's the source material. 27 Dresses was a famous book, and Devil Wears Prada was also a wonderful book, so… — Jerry Bruckheimer Copy Share Image
Sometime female characters, especially in the genre of something that people consider rom-com, make mistakes in a cute way or they're a… — Greta Gerwig Copy Share Image
With every movie, I am trying in my own little way to do whatever I can to change the way female characters… — Taapsee Pannu Copy Share Image