Geena Davis
Related People are afraid to show women with demons. But I think it's important for women to see flawed ... RILEY KEOUGH There aren't enough good roles for strong women. I wish we had more female writers. Most of the ... GAL GADOT There's a remarkable amount of sexism on TV. When male characters are flawed, they're intere... ELLEN POMPEO J. J. ABRAMS The funniest things just come from honesty. We have a tendency to see female characters as represent... ELIZABETH MERIWETHER RYAN GOSLING I would love to do a chick flick sometime soon, a film with strong female characters - when I say st... ANUSHKA SHARMA I like that these characters aren't perfect. I love that there are all these strong female character... ANDY YARDLEY ANGELINA JOLIE I think it's important that we have strong, female characters in movies now, which can really le... SAOIRSE RONAN All the other characters are so well-rounded, and it's just frustrating because female character... OPHELIA LOVIBOND Rawn did her own thing in her own way. She cast the female gaze on a genre heavy with all-male quest... JUDITH TARR SONG HYE-KYO I think that there are a lot of male writers and directors in Hollywood, and a lot of the female cha... EMILY RATAJKOWSKI What's interesting about anime is that it's almost equally attractive to males and females, which is... GREG TOPALIAN COLIN TREVORROW MONICA BELLUCCI SIDNEY SHELDON LENA DUNHAM What's so great about playing a female lead, especially in law enforcement, is that these women ... EMILY ROSE CLINT EASTWOOD I think women have such rich emotional lives that they are expressive about. I also think they'r... DARREN STAR HELEN MIRREN I was above all drawn to the opportunity to intimately portray female characters. Up until then my f... DANIS TANOVIC we as authors have been writing about people we aren't for forever. We find a way to empathise, we f... ADRIENNE KRESS JENNY SLATE She'll play a very dynamic character. The success of games like 'Tomb Raider' has shown that there's... MATTY RICH PETER UEBERROTH JEFFREY EUGENIDES ZAHA HADID MEG CABOT I certainly relate to Ygritte in the fact that she is so strong and also ruthless as well and I feel... ROSE LESLIE Hollywood is lacking realness in their female characters. I don't think I'm the only one who... NICOLE HOLOFCENER 'Gravity' is a great example of a movie that we hope they're going to do more of. It'... CALLIE KHOURI DOUG LIMAN The beauty of 'The Hunger Games' and also 'Game of Thrones,' in fairness, both proje... NATALIE DORMER RACHAEL TAYLOR RUSSELL SMITH There are so many female roles - particularly for young women - that are just somebody's girlfri... HANNAH MURRAY JOSS WHEDON Here, we have female directors and producers; in fact, one whole channel is run by a woman. Pakistan... UMERA AHMAD I think that's what we're supposed to do is play a wide range of characters - or it's ju... GARRETT DILLAHUNT What I think is wonderful is that women are not just avengers or victims in films. They are people. ... MADHURI DIXIT One of the most interesting female characters I've written about was Meg Riddoch, the lead chara... NICK EARLS TERRY PRATCHETT CARRIE-ANNE MOSS As a writer, as much as I try, I can't stop writing female characters. They have so much more to... TATE TAYLOR CONDOLEEZZA RICE As a female there aren't too many characters that are very empowering, and there's something... CAMILLA LUDDINGTON It's great to have female characters that have depth that you can explore instead of being the d... MADCHEN AMICK REBECCA HALL We throw at female artists this expectation that their work has to speak to the female experience. A... ELEANOR CATTON I like strong female characters. I try to write them as role models for young girls. L. J. SMITH There's always that stigma of, 'Women shouldn't box,' or stereotypes of what a femal... MANDY BUJOLD William Shatner has one style. We have completely contrasting personalities. We're very good fri... PATRICK STEWART It's very odd that we have such an easy relationship to violence in this country, and we're ... GABY HOFFMANN I have always wanted to work with Lingusamy, as he is a master of commercial cinema. I have always a... SAMANTHA RUTH PRABHU JEFF NICHOLS KEN FOLLETT MARGARET ATWOOD PETER JACKSON I never really knew that I would be a lifer of strong female characters, but that seems to be the dr... EVAN DAUGHERTY She's only a girl. What kind of men are you?'DONNA THORLAND LIZA MINNELLI I think there are more female characters in videogames now but I also think that's because video... TARA STRONG ANNE M. MULCAHY ARI GRAYNOR MIKA BRZEZINSKI In general, I think writing characters, no one is 100 percent good or bad, and certainly, the bad ch... DARREN STAR JILLIAN HERVEY She was a marvelous playwright who wrote vital, important female characters and vital, important mal... JAMES BUNDY Among my favorite half-dozen topics is the field of Victorian female explorers, the intrepid women w... DEANNA RAYBOURN If you love someone you must set them free like the wind and give them the respect they deserve.If y... GARY F EVANS... I am a method actor, but I'm also a film actor as well as a method actor. Characters that don... VINCENT D'ONOFRIO Through her re-enactments of the stereotypical ways in which women and the female body have typicall... ELIZABETH ARMSTRONG The insinuation that without a female president women cannot pursue and achieve their dreams is not ... ALYSSA BORNHORST It's important for readers, especially girls to read characters that they can relate to and model th... JOANNE DOBSON We never end up with the book we began writing. Characters twist it and turn it until they get the l... C.K. WEBB WARREN FARRELL FAMKE JANSSEN SARA SHERIDAN I think it's definitely beneficial for these characters to have good acting voices behind them a... TARA STRONG EDITH HEAD JOSS WHEDON MARK WAID Women just make interesting characters, especially when you're working against cliches. JOHN SANDFORD Half our team is always female, and we require that of visited countries. If they don't have it, the... KJELL RYE FOREST WHITAKER CARRIE-ANNE MOSS I've written original material before, where I've come up with the idea and the characters m... ALEX GARLAND As an audience member, I live vicariously through the characters I watch or read about. There's ... JAMES BADGE DALE As a feminist, just to speak to what women go through, I think women are put in a box way too often.... KETHER DONOHUE I'm just trying to write a good story, strictly from imagination. People just think it's ran... ERIC JEROME DICKEY BRENE BROWN TED TURNER I get recognized in the street really frequently, which is really shocking. I'm excruciatingly w... IAN HARDING JOAN D. VINGE I'm very drawn to characters who are very flawed. I'm less interested in characters who are ... 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I was of the generation where most of the Disney princesses and female characters were not girls tha... 
Just like how male actors get to play varied characters, I would also like to play characters that p... 
There's no need for a female character that does things like a male character; that's not wh... 
We had a moment in the '40s and '50s, where female characters were very strong in film, wher... 
The fact that my female characters have strong personalities but are also physically attractive prob... 
I love flawed female characters, duking it out. 
The stronger the participation of the female characters, the better the movie. They knew that in the... 
Two phrases I hate in reference to female characters are 'strong' and 'feisty.' They... 
I like any film where the female characters are complex and have a functioning imperfection. 
But there's still room for women, and what we see are emerging female athletes and female fans. This... 
I approach writing female characters the same why I approach writing male characters. I never think ... 
Half of architecture students are women, and you see respected, established female architects all th... 
Strong female characters - even if they don't necessarily make the same decisions that we might ... 
I populated 'The Bourne Identity' with real characters from American history, specifically c... 
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It's only recently women got to be action heroes on TV. Progress is slow, and often non-existent... 
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I definitely acknowledge that 'The Matrix' and Trinity had an influence on female action-ori... 
We're in a new world. We're in a world in which the possibility of terrorism, married up wit... 
Some of my acting heroes have built careers on playing characters who do horrendous things - they... 
Sometimes as writers, we try and put narrative development above character development. We try to mo... 
I don't think there's any great mystery to writing female characters, so long as you talk to... 
All fiction is about people, unless it's about rabbits pretending to be people. It's all ess... 
People sort of accuse Tolkien of not being good with female characters, and I think that Eowyn actua... 
The male gay community seems to be very into female singers. I think it could be the songs we sing. ... 
We're long past having to defend or explain why women should be on boards, given all the data th... 
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Women face enough pressures and challenges in a workplace that is still depressingly biased against ... 
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Feminism justified female 'victim power' by convincing the world that we lived in a sexist, ... 
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With women, there's a basic female instinct of caring deeply about the way they look; women star... 
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Change is no threat to culture. 
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