More Quote by Harriet Walter

I believe writers need to be chameleons, or like Meryl Streep, who can play all sorts of characters. A good writer should be able…

— Marisha Pessl

I think male roles are generally much better written. So for actresses, we're always dealing with trying to inject a role with more truth…

— Judy Davis

Women are the essential part of the theater but the writers are not writing about women. I think they're too perplexed about the whole…

— Bette Davis

I think female actors should also play male characters.

— Sunil Grover

A female writer does definitely get more attention if she writes about male characters. It's true. It's considered somehow more literary, in the same…

— Lauren Groff

I am tired of women playing action heroes like men, because they are not men. But sometimes they are written like men.

— Katee Sackhoff

If you just look at the number of roles for women versus the number of roles for men in any given film, there are…

— Gillian Jacobs

I don't see female characters as different or inferior to male characters.

— Cheo Hodari Coker

Roles written for women are so much more complex on television. The film world is becoming quite flimsy for women.

— Julianna Margulies

Nobody is surprised that women writers accurately represent male characters over and over again, no doubt because everybody knows that women understand men much…

— Peter Straub

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

I don't think there is a need of the categorization 'woman writing'. I think in some sense writers lost their gender when they walk…

— Anita Nair