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I'm attracted to films that have strong female characters because there are strong female charac... RYAN GOSLING Rawn did her own thing in her own way. She cast the female gaze on a genre heavy with all-male quest...
JUDITH TARR
Just like how male actors get to play varied characters, I would also like to play characters that p... SONG HYE-KYO The funniest things just come from honesty. We have a tendency to see female characters as represent...
ELIZABETH MERIWETHER They didn't portray comic characters, they were comic characters.
STANLEY GREEN My films do have characters who have trouble escaping the world around them.
LASSE HALLSTROM She was a marvelous playwright who wrote vital, important female characters and vital, important mal...
JAMES BUNDY I think I'm drawn to characters with complexity or who are under duress in some way and have som...
EMILY BLUNT
I think to be writer you have to enjoy being alone. I was a loner as a teenager and was always drawn... MARKUS ZUSAK
As a writer, my main objective is to tell the story urgently - as if whispering it into one ear - an... JULIANNA BAGGOTT
I was of the generation where most of the Disney princesses and female characters were not girls tha... ANGELINA JOLIE
There's no need for a female character that does things like a male character; that's not wh... COLIN TREVORROW I like that these characters aren't perfect. I love that there are all these strong female character...
ANDY YARDLEY There's a remarkable amount of sexism on TV. When male characters are flawed, they're intere...
ELLEN POMPEO I had an obsession that I was male characters from movies.
ILLEANA DOUGLAS
I approach writing female characters the same why I approach writing male characters. I never think ... JEFFREY EUGENIDES
We're showing kids a world that is very scantily populated with women and female characters. The... GEENA DAVIS I'm very drawn to characters who are very flawed. I'm less interested in characters who are ...
RACHEL WEISZ
I'm drawn to dark characters, and to things that are really weighty. TONY VINCENT
In ancient times, people weren't just male or female, but one of three types: male/male, male/female... HARUKI MURAKAMI
I love flawed female characters, duking it out. LENA DUNHAM When I do my job, I dive into these characters and try to flush something out of myself into these c...
SAM WORTHINGTON For me it's a European-type movie, ... It's a small story about family and it's these kinds of chara...
DANNY AIELLO My films express me, my sense of rhythm, my sense of impact, my sense of kinetic energy. I like film...
PAUL GREENGRASS I was supposed to write a romantic comedy, but my characters broke up.
ANN BRASHARES
I'm drawn to emotionally damaged characters because there is more to unlock. HELENA BONHAM CARTER My films are personal-voice-driven films about human characters and the place we live. Technically, ...
BARRY JENKINS There aren't enough good roles for strong women. I wish we had more female writers. Most of the ...
GAL GADOT
I'm not sure why I'm so drawn to heroes who do bad things and to villains who think they'... BARRY EISLER I'm drawn to melancholy characters. I don't know what that says about me. Characters who are...
GARRETT DILLAHUNT What I remember myself from films, and what I love about films, is specific scenes and characters.
HARMONY KORINE I start with an idea or a problem or a conflict, or even a situation that might be pertinent to the ...
SHARON DRAPER
As a child, I was always drawn to heroic characters. I decided I wanted to act when I realised that ... ORLANDO BLOOM The best characters to play are the ones who have deep internal conflict.
GEORGE BLAGDEN I love the characters I've had the opportunity to play.
BEN WHISHAW I have always been drawn to coming-of-age stories and books and movies featuring compelling young ch...
EMILY GIFFIN
I don't start with the characters. I start with the series of events that will provide the confl... ASHWIN SANGHI
The physical journey in my films is indicative of the internal journey that my characters take. IMTIAZ ALI
Well, I think I've made 44 films and only like four times I've played real characters I'... LIAM NEESON I like strong female characters. I try to write them as role models for young girls.
L. J. SMITH
I like any film where the female characters are complex and have a functioning imperfection. JENNY SLATE My beliefs encompass all religions. But I never show my religious inclination in my films. My charac...
MADHUR BHANDARKAR
I don't really compare any of the characters I play; I try to go into them being very open to wh... MAHERSHALA ALI
I was thinking about what I wanted to write next, after my first novel, and had decided that I wante... JOAN D. VINGE
But even in such works where the author is ideally unobtrusive, he remains diffused through the book... VLADIMIR NABOKOV
I tend to favour films that have multiple plot and story lines, multiple characters and ensemble pie... SPIKE LEE
I think that Shakespeare had his male side and his female side extremely well developed. And this wa... BEN KINGSLEY
I was always inventing characters and making up stories. SUZANNE VEGA
I had always studied French and was obsessed with French films. I hated the way American films alway... JERRY HALL
When I look at female characters, I want to recognize myself in them: my trials, my tribulations as ... VERA FARMIGA If I hadn't left South Africa, I felt I was at risk of being pigeonholed. I looked around and sa...
ADHIR KALYAN If you pick up an eighteenth-century play, at the top it says 'The Argument,' and then you h...
DAMIAN LEWIS God bless my daddy, ... He was the genius who created this wonderful menagerie of characters. A monk...
DEAN YOUNG It has yet to be adequately demonstrated to Congress or the American people that it is our vital nat...
TIM HUTCHINSON
With indies, all they have is their script and it's very important to them. The characters are b... MARK RUFFALO I don't mind playing bad guys, but I love having the opportunity to play all different types of ...
J. R. BOURNE we as authors have been writing about people we aren't for forever. We find a way to empathise, we f...
ADRIENNE KRESS I'm a filmmaker, and I was most influenced by Hitchcock's films. How he could plant such dee...
PAUL HAGGIS My favorite part about working in theater is the rehearsal process. I absolutely love the rehearsal ...
JOSEPH GATT To the image of the characters, I do change my appearance. For example, I gain weight and I lose wei...
MIN-SIK CHOI Over the years, a number of people have asked me why I tend to write at this great length. I've ...
KATHARINE KERR
Tragedies are stories that usually begin fairly happily and then steadily go downhill, until all of ... LEMONY SNICKET I am really drawn to damaged characters, and I have a lot of sympathy for them. Making those complic...
PAUL HAGGIS
What I do is put my characters into situations that are so precarious there is no way to get out. An... SIDNEY SHELDON
The fact that my female characters have strong personalities but are also physically attractive prob... SIDNEY SHELDON
I'll write maybe one long paragraph describing the events, then a page or two breaking the event... ANNE TYLER
Kids are more drawn to animal characters than human, ... They know what a 'dirty rat' is. BRIAN JACQUES
I do not use profanity in my novels. My characters all go to church. NICHOLAS SPARKS When I was a kid, I used to make up all these characters. I love comedy a lot, and I don't get t...
OMAR DORSEY
All of the characters in my films, they share one commonality. It doesn't matter whether they ar... PARK CHAN-WOOK
I think I've always been drawn to the second person. When I was growing up and playing with my f... MOHSIN HAMID
I was four years old when Pearl Harbor was bombed on December 7, 1941 by Japan, and overnight, the w... GEORGE TAKEI One of the things about the '70s films I love - the films 'Nightcrawler' is being compar...
DAN GILROY
Sometimes as writers, we try and put narrative development above character development. We try to mo... JEFF NICHOLS
If I were invited to a dinner party with my characters, I wouldn't show up. DR. SEUSS I call it Bosnian minimalism. I was somehow thinking of the Roman comedies where it all happens in t...
DANIS TANOVIC I don't have a very high opinion of men, without doubt it is because I am one. Men and women live on...
DANIS TANOVIC Since the idea was first introduced to me, I married, I became a father, and the subject appeared di...
DANIS TANOVIC
In the sex-war thoughtlessness is the weapon of the male, vindictiveness of the female. CYRIL CONNOLLY
Up until the War of the Roses there had been continual conflict in England. STEPHEN GARDINER My Southern heritage is a big part of who I am. I grew up around people who seemed like characters b...
FORTUNE FEIMSTER “Think of life as a drama and you have your own characters in it. If you think positive, you will ...
ADNAN MIRZA I call on the people of Tripoli to restrain themselves and not get drawn into conflict with anyone.
NAJIB MIKATI One morning I woke up and was plunged into psychological shock. I had forgotten I was free.
JACK HENRY ABBOTT One morning I woke up and was plunged into psychological shock. I had forgotten I was free.
JACK ABBOTT And if it be from sixty years old and above; if it be a male, then thy estimation shall be fifteen s...
BIBLE One of the most interesting female characters I've written about was Meg Riddoch, the lead chara...
NICK EARLS My mother didn't let me see color films. I saw a lot of black-and-white films. The first time I ...
LIEV SCHREIBER
There are characters in movies who I call 'film characters.' They don't exist in real li... PHILIP SEYMOUR HOFFMAN
When I did these psychological characters like the drug addicts, the ones who were rejected and deje... KANGANA RANAUT
The funny thing is that I feel close to all my characters. Deep, deep inside them all. PAUL AUSTER I always start with characters rather than with a plot, which many critics would say is very obvious...
JIM JARMUSCH You need to be invested in what happens. The characters are your conduit to the story. Many modern h...
JANE GOLDMAN
Disney produces fabulous movies around certain characters, and then they commercialize that engageme... NICK WOODMAN
Strong female characters - even if they don't necessarily make the same decisions that we might ... MEG CABOT I do remember being a fan of the Marvel characters and not liking the DC characters at all.
ALFRED MOLINA
I grew up within Italian-American neighborhoods, everybody was coming into the house all the time, k... MARTIN SCORSESE The good characters in my book are loosely based on folks I know. All the bad stuff is made up.
MIKE BOVE Don't let your characters tell you what to do. They can be pushy. Some writers say that they cre...
CHELSEA CAIN
