Character Quote by Greta Gerwig

I am like my characters - sometimes even the female ones.

— Jorge Amado

All the other characters are so well-rounded, and it's just frustrating because female characters aren't. It's not that they're badly written, they're just underwritten.…

— Ophelia Lovibond

You typically find stereotypical female characters that are people pleasers, where they are wives and girlfriends, typically, who are in the background.

— Haley Bennett

It's a problem with a lot of female characters, that a lot of them are guy oriented or what they're expressing or emoting is…

— Jenna Ortega

I do like characters that have flaws, some sort of pathos to them that they are trying to sort out.

— Nicolas Cage

When we create female characters, I think often there is a tendency to kind of make female characters emotionally bulletproof.

— Ashly Burch

I love flawed female characters, duking it out.

— Lena Dunham

I've always had difficulties with female characters.

— John le Carre

When a woman creates an unlikable character, a lot of people think it's a mistake.

— Karin Slaughter

I always do a lot of work around characters to make them real people because, oftentimes, they really are a sliver of a person.…

— Andrea Riseborough

All too often, female characters, in particular, aren't multi-layered enough.

— Ruth Bradley

We only see female protagonists who are likeable, with one cute flaw, such as adorable clumsiness. I'm fed up with it.

— Catherine Reitman