Banner Quote by Zawe Ashton

People often tell me, "You write such great women." I don't think about it, I just write characters as rigorously and as truthfully as…

— Donald Margulies

I feel like I have had to catch up to the art I've made, and learn from the protagonists I have written, especially in…

— Vivek Shraya

I really get fired up with female protagonists. I can really feel the difference in myself when I am writing a script that has…

— Linda Woolverton

Men and women are both humans, so, for me, that makes my characters and the work that I do human stories.

— Elisabeth Moss

As a writer, as much as I try, I can't stop writing female characters. They have so much more to offer; they have to…

— Tate Taylor

There is so much room for gender-neutral characters.

— Ruth Bradley

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 also really pay attention to whether the script embodies a full female character or if they're just wanting a two-dimensional objectified woman. So…

— Karla Souza

My idea is to write a story where every character is well etched out, irrespective of their gender. Because they all are human beings…

— Sriram Raghavan

I'd love to write something for a male protagonist. That's sort of the next frontier for me. I think it'd be really amazing to…

— Lena Dunham

The imaginative leap for me of writing for women is no more difficult than the one of writing for men. I've always wanted to…

— Anthony Minghella

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

— Katee Sackhoff