Characters Quote by Jenna Ortega

Especially in comedies, I think a lot of time the female characters are there to provide a balance for guys.

— Zooey Deschanel

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 think I'm drawn to female characters partly because they don't have as easy or as obvious a relationship to power in society, and…

— Todd Haynes

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

— Cheo Hodari Coker

There's a tendency among some male writers to make the women in their stories weak and needing of rescue so that their hero looks…

— Karin Slaughter

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

There is so much room for gender-neutral characters.

— Ruth Bradley

Men tend to define themselves by what they do, and so if you're dealing with a character who's trying to figure that out, or…

— Steven Soderbergh

I get the feeling that characters are written female when they have to be, and all the other characters are male, and it doesn't…

— Geena Davis

Even in stories that I like, with a female character that I love deeply, it always feels like there's something that she has to…

— Noelle Stevenson

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

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

— Ashly Burch