I have this theory that the likeability question comes up so much more with female characters created by female authors than it… — Curtis Sittenfeld 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
Once I got over the fear of writing female characters, it actually came quite easily and I was really happy with it.… — Eli Roth Copy Share Image
Women are always murdered and maimed, and they’re never given their rightful place as lead characters! And I think [creator Michael Hirst]… — Clive Standen 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
One of the most interesting female characters I've written about was Meg Riddoch, the lead character in 'The Thompson Gunner'. — Nick Earls Copy Share Image
I grew up on comics in the 1960s era, when 'Wonder Woman' was rather silly. She was an interchangeable female character plagued… — George Perez Copy Share Image
I did not find that writing a diary with a lead male character differed in any essential way from writing one with… — Kathryn Lasky Copy Share Image
Personally, I was really drawn to a very strong female character; an intelligent woman who is extremely good at her job, but… — Emily Deschanel Copy Share Image
As a woman, I don't feel like I have a responsibility to create better female characters. I feel like I have a… — Courtney A. Kemp Copy Share Image
I think 'Sightseers' was a bit of an epiphany, a massive learning curve, and it gave me loads of confidence to go… — Alice Lowe Copy Share Image
Something happened to me when I wrote female characters in my early plays; it was a real liberation. — Peter Hedges Copy Share Image
I get really excited every time there's a female character who is really strong because a lot of females in film are… — Anna Kendrick Copy Share Image
“As male characters level up and become more powerful, their bodies become better protected and covered. In contrast, as female characters level… — Nick Yee 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
If you view history as a backdrop, set-dressing or fiction, then 'Pride and Prejudice' is hugely entertaining. My reread saw the misery… — Sara Pascoe Copy Share Image
People often ask me if I feel discriminated against as a black female director. I don't. I'm actually offered a ton of… — Gina Prince-Bythewood Copy Share Image
Maybe it's the culture, maybe it's the cliché of Latino machismo, but the Mediterranean male character is more dull than the female… — Pedro Almodovar Copy Share Image
My affinity, as a novelist, with Dickens has been overstated. I relish the way everything in his prose pulsates with life force,… — Michel Faber Copy Share Image
James Patterson has a way with female characters. He understands women in a way that a lot of male writers don't. — Tracy Pollan Copy Share Image
I'm drawn to female characters, not all of them are strong characters. I think I'm drawn to female characters partly because they… — Todd Haynes 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
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