I had an obsession that I was male characters from movies.

I really do love male characters, in some ways, for the fact that they get surprised when they're vulnerable. Women are more surprised by…

— Courtney A. Kemp

Oddly, I think if you look at comic books, you look at the shelves in the store, it's predominantly male characters, historically. But if…

— Mark Millar

I told my friend - we were working on a movie together - and he gave me a script and asked me to give…

— Karla Souza

I feel that we should try and understand how we as women storytellers have often fallen into the mode of telling stories in the…

— Danae Elon

None of the male characters are as powerful or as interesting as the four central female characters. The men work best as representations of…

— Norman Buckley

The thing about great fictional characters from literature, and the reason that they're constantly turned into characters in movies, is that they completely speak…

— Keira Knightley

“The fictitious characters of movies undermine our personal relationships with others. we are constantly under pressure to fit into the mould created by fiction,…

— Awdhesh Singh

I don't want to be known for anything other than the fact that I play characters in movies.

— Sophia Myles

I love these kind of movies as a kind of cinema-going geek myself. Those characters, you want to be like those characters when you…

— Pierce Brosnan

When guys see a movie starring women, they go, "That must be filled with these characters I see in these movies who are such…

— Paul Feig

The ratio of male to female characters in movies has been exactly the same since 1946. So if you've ever had people say, you…

— Geena Davis

I think it's important that we have strong, female characters in movies now, which can really leave an impression on people - especially young…

— Saoirse Ronan

Sometimes, the smaller roles in movies can be the most interesting. If you only take the stance that you'll only play central characters in…

— Joel Edgerton

I like being in real environments. I love being in the place that it's about - these sets and locations are characters in the…

— Antoine Fuqua

I have always liked kind of outsider characters. In the movies I grew up liking, you had more complicated characters. I don't mean that…

— Jody Hill