Character Quote by Tessa Thompson

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

— Ashly Burch

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 believe in distinguishing between single-heroine films or those that have more than one female protagonist.

— Pooja Batra

I do not think that when I write a female character, I intend to reflect my thoughts on gender equality, but I always make…

— Sriram Raghavan

It's difficult to make a movie about a complicated, non-traditional female character. We see a lot more movies with male characters who are at…

— Megan Griffiths

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

— Haley Bennett

I think all of my male characters, I suppose, in all of my films, they're not necessarily the traditional version of masculinity.

— Andrew Haigh

Everybody enjoys when a woman is her own character in a movie or otherwise.

— Amber Heard

With fiction, the works of women are often over-interpreted as autobiography, especially when the main character is a woman, especially if she is seen…

— Kate Zambreno

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

— Cheo Hodari Coker

Identifying with a character is one of the best parts of seeing a movie, but as women, we've had to train ourselves to experience…

— Geena Davis

Every woman is a character - but people need to see I'm a regular human. It's like you wear a pink wig and you're…

— Nicki Minaj