William Gibson Quotes

I can't imagine writing a book without some strong female characters, unless that was a demand of the setting. I actually tend to suspect that in real life, there have always been very strong female characters, but at certain stages of society, they've been asked to cool it.

With 'Holes' I was troubled that there weren't very many female characters. I tried to put them in where I could. But the setting didn't lend itself to girls.

Women are never the protagonists; we're always reactionary against everything that's done to us. I like people who write for women that have got a bit more about them.

Strong female leads are important.

There aren't a lot of roles written for women who are strong willed.

One thing Middle-earth is short on is the feminine.

There aren't enough good roles for strong women. I wish we had more female writers. Most of the female characters you see in films today are the 'poor heartbroken girl.'

I am not one to go for traditional female roles, because I don't think traditionally female characters are very interesting, and I don't think they represent real life.

What's so dumb is that women are 50 per cent of the population, and they want to spend money to see movies where they're portrayed as three-dimensional characters.

I can't tell you how many incredible directors I long to work with, but then I look at their IMDb page, and they haven't made a single movie about a woman.

I don't understand why people still behave as though making movies with female protagonists is risky, given that - hello - we do make up over 50 percent of the population, and we go to movies.

I'm always surprised when people talk about strong female characters because I feel like we all are.

It's not that I only want to make films about women, but from my experience, I have been very interested in the women who play these characters.

I think there is a wonderful trend of strong female characters on television right now.

I'm drawn to female characters; not all of them are strong characters.

There's still prejudice and that resistance regarding women, not only on female football but in various activities. Men think that women are a bit fragile to perform some types of activities or don't have the ability and aren't strong enough.

I've made movies that are real boy movies - but I've had so much fun over the years working with women and getting good performances with women and with strong female characters.

But the fact is, I'm not work-identified. I'm not a lawyer or a writer. I'm a mom, and I'm a woman, and that's the kind of people I want to see in books in the starring role.

I don't think there's any great mystery to writing female characters, so long as you talk to them. If you lived in a monastery and never met any women, maybe it would be difficult.

I think that's important to women in comedy, that we get a lot of the good lines and you're not just the girlfriend or the sister.

If you're going to tell stories about life, you have to include a woman in your story.

Often, as a young actress, you find yourself being the only girl in a room full of men... and one of the reasons why I like 'Grey's Anatomy' is because they have such strong female characters and the women really drive this show.

There weren't roles for females in comedies for a really long time.

It's only very recently that women have succeeded in entering those professions which, as Muses, they typified for the Greeks.

The women I know are smart, interesting people who aren't just there to service the men's stories, so I don't know why our art continues to do that.