Character Quote by Mindy Kaling

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

— Julianna Margulies

There's a remarkable amount of sexism on TV. When male characters are flawed, they're interesting, deep and complex. But when female characters are flawed,…

— Ellen Pompeo

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 create women characters by watching the female staff at my studio. Half the staff are women.

— Hayao Miyazaki

The sad thing about our society is that women are put in one of two categories. You're either in the beautiful category and you're…

— Amber Heard

Comedy in the past hasn't spoken to women because it wasn't written by women, and male writers don't make women three-dimensional characters. Too often,…

— Michaela Coel

There's just a deeper level of sophistication in the writing of female characters on TV.

— Vera Farmiga

Women are under-represented in TV comedy for a variety of reasons, the hackneyed 'fear that women aren't funny' being one of them.

— Victoria Coren Mitchell

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

— Ashly Burch

For the most part, I was surprised by the representation of female characters onscreen. I do hope that when we include more female storytellers,…

— Jessica Chastain

I like shows where the female characters are as funny as the male characters, not just commenting on how funny the male characters are.

— Graham Linehan

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