Female Characters Quotes - Page 2

• I wanted to have very strong female characters. I just thought it was always the way the world should be.

  Elizabeth Hand

  Strong, Character, World

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• It's nice to do something about something that scares you rather than just run from it and hope that someone saves you. I like seeing strong female characters and somebody who doesn't run away screaming when scared, but confronts the monsters.

  Katie Holmes

  Running, Strong, Nice

  "Actress Katie Holmes Experiences Dread in Don’t Be Afraid of the Dark & Talks About It". Interview with Brad Balfour, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 7, 2011.

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• A general philosophy of the female characters in my films is they all want something to believe in, and not having anything.

  Woody Allen

  Philosophy, Believe, Character

  "Woody Allen & Cast Interview". AskMen Interview, www.askmen.com. October 1, 2010.

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• I'm not sure that it's easy to find very interesting female characters in Hollywood movies.

  Audrey Tautou

  Character, Interesting, Hollywood

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• People focus on the darker female characters in my books, but for every one of those, I can also show you an equally screwed up man that no one ever comments about, or a nicer woman that no one comments about.

  Gillian Flynn

  Book, Character, Men

  Source: collider.com

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• Bechdel Test, was named for the comic strip it came from, penned by Alison Bechdel - but Bechdel credits a friend named Liz Wallace, so maybe it really should be called the Liz Wallace Test...? Anyway, the test is much simpler than the name. To pass it your movie must have the following: a) there are at least two named female characters, who b) talk to each other about c) something other than a man.

  Alison Bechdel

  Character, Men, Names

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• I'm drawn to female characters, not all of them are strong characters. 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 so they suffer under social constraints or have to maneuver within them in ways men sometimes don't, or are unconscious about, or have certain liberties that are invisible to them.

  Todd Haynes

  Strong, Character, Men

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• My whole theory about why I couldn’t find any creators who realized they were leaving out female characters is because they were raised on the same ratio. I just heard someone the other day call it either ‘smurfing’ a movie, which is when there’s one female character, or ‘minioning’ a movie, which is when there’s no female characters.

  Geena Davis

  Character, Leaving, Female

  "Twenty-Five Years After 'Thelma & Louise,' Geena Davis Says She Wanted Susan Sarandon's Role". Interview with Stephen Galloway, www.hollywoodreporter.com. February 17, 2016.

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• It's nuts that we've reached a situation where representing female characters - let alone minorities - is considered "social responsibility" and not, you know, depicting half the world's population. I often feel like the gaming audience is so much more diverse than the characters represented in the games that they play.

  Neil Druckmann

  Character, Responsibility, Nuts

  Source: za.ign.com

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• The ratio of male to female characters in movies has been exactly the same since 1946. So if you've ever had people say, you know, "It's better now, it's all changed, it's all different," it's not, it hasn't. Not yet.

  Geena Davis

  Character, People, Males

  "Twenty-Five Years After 'Thelma & Louise,' Geena Davis Says She Wanted Susan Sarandon's Role". www.hollywoodreporter.com. February 17, 2016.

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• Any movie you see, if Tom Cruise is in an action movie or whatever it is, The Avengers, there's going to be a kick-ass female character. Usually one. And there's a term for this, but I don't know what it is. But someone's coined a term where there's one female character who's incredibly tough and strong and just as good as the guys at whatever it is they’re doing, and usually wearing black, skin-tight clothes, and [she] has no personality whatsoever, and is not funny.

  Geena Davis

  Strong, Character, Wearing Black

  "Twenty-Five Years After 'Thelma & Louise,' Geena Davis Says She Wanted Susan Sarandon's Role". Interview with Stephen Galloway, www.hollywoodreporter.com. February 17, 2016.

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• I don't think male characters are as one-dimensional as female characters.

  Geena Davis

  Character, Thinking, Males

  "Twenty-Five Years After 'Thelma & Louise,' Geena Davis Says She Wanted Susan Sarandon's Role". Interview with Stephen Galloway, www.hollywoodreporter.com. February 17, 2016.

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• It was a great joy for me to develop a strong female character in the spirit of an Icelandic woman. Icelandic women tend to be very strong and very independent, and I think that came in very handy.

  Anita Briem

  Strong, Character, Independent

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• When men write women, they tend to write women the way they want women to be, or the way they resent women for being. They don't really - they seldom nail it. It takes a woman to write a really good female character. I like that.

  Simon Pegg

  Writing, Character, Men

  Source: 411mania.com

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• I think it's the source material. 27 Dresses was a famous book, and Devil Wears Prada was also a wonderful book, so it's coming out of the novelists who are really creating these wonderful female characters that we want to see on the big screen.

  Jerry Bruckheimer

  Book, Character, Thinking

  "Confessions of a Shopaholic". Interview with Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• Here are examples of real women who have done real things: good, bad, and in between. We're expanding not just the definition of the female or feminine hero, but also villains and more complex, nuanced female characters. Too often I hear men say, "I don't know how to write women." Here you go, here are five incredible women you can use to inspire your own stories.

  Anita Sarkeesian

  Real, Hero, Writing

  Source: www.marieclaire.com

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• For [people] to be like "So what it's like dealing with female characters who are completely disgusting?" I don't think they are - does that make me weird? I made a very intentional choice to not care about that stuff, and go like "I don't care about it, I'm just gonna tell my truth and see what happens."

  Leslye Headland

  Character, Thinking, People

  "Jason Sudeikis, Alison Brie & Leslye Headland Talk ‘Sleeping With Other People,’ Sex, Indie Films And More". Interview with Ken Guidry, www.indiewire.com. September 17, 2015.

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• Because I had some roles that resonated with women, I immediately noticed that there were far more male characters than female characters in what we're showing little kids in the 21st century, which was stunning to me. But I couldn't find anybody else who noticed.

  Geena Davis

  Character, Kids, Males

  "Twenty-Five Years After 'Thelma & Louise,' Geena Davis Says She Wanted Susan Sarandon's Role". Interview with Stephen Galloway, www.hollywoodreporter.com. February 17, 2016.

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• So many female characters are the girlfriend of the person having the adventure. I want to play baseball, I don't want to be the girlfriend of the one [who plays].

  Geena Davis

  Baseball, Girlfriend, Adventure

  "Twenty-Five Years After 'Thelma & Louise,' Geena Davis Says She Wanted Susan Sarandon's Role". Interview with Stephen Galloway, www.hollywoodreporter.com. February 17, 2016.

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• It's like my characters, all my men are Dad and me in a mess; all my female characters are smart and hopeful, like Mom just trying to make the best of things.

  Bret Easton Ellis

  Mom, Dad, Smart

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• I find that in the science fiction world, you have almost more women fans than male fans and I think it's because there's been such a shortage of strong female characters.

  Katee Sackhoff

  Strong, Character, Thinking

  Source: collider.com

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• It's a convention, but in horror movies the female characters usually tend to believe easier in a supernatural event.

  Fede Alvarez

  Believe, Character, Events

  Source: collider.com

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• Sometime female characters, especially in the genre of something that people consider rom-com, make mistakes in a cute way or they're a mess in a way that's palatable. I like that.

  Greta Gerwig

  Cute, Mistake, Character

  Source: collider.com

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• To me, feminism in literature deals with the female characters being in some way central to the thematic concerns of the book, or that they are agents of change to some degree. In other words, the lens is focused deeply and intensely on the female characters and doesn't waver, which allows for a glimpse into the rich inner lives of the characters.

  Laurie Foos

  Book, Character, Feminism

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I don't mind being called a "feminist," as I certainly embrace the tenets of feminism, though it does feel a little sad to me that we need to call a novel "feminist" simply because the female characters are interesting and strong.

  Laurie Foos

  Strong, Character, Interesting

  Source: therumpus.net

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