Cheo Hodari Coker Quotes

I think empowerment of women is exactly what's happening now, with women being portrayed as human beings, and not just black and white. Men can be the anti-hero all the time, and it's cool, but when women are, they're twisted or messed up or something is wrong with them. I think it's just about portraying women in the world as equals to men, and vice versa.

Once, power was considered a masculine attribute. In fact, power has no sex.

When people say to me, 'Why are you so good at writing at women?' I say, 'Why isn't everybody?'

Why is being a woman so surprising? There are two sexes. A man and a woman. So, if it's not a man in a movie, what else was it going to be?

I'm not sure if I should say this, and it might sound arrogant of me, but I think there is a tendency to view female characters as consumer products.

I just think that people are complicated, both men and women. It happens that I write more about women.

I don't buy this premise that the number of minifigures needs to be an equal amount to be gender neutral. Nobody makes artistic products like that; nobody makes a movie and says there has to be equal numbers of men and women.

We often see literature about women that impair and immerse the women themselves, such as when women are portrayed as objects of consumerism.

I have always been interested in gender politics, so I'm not that keen on doing things that don't represent a truth about women.

I do think the attempt to raise consciousness has succeeded. People are very aware of gender concerns now.

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

There's a remarkable amount of sexism on TV. When male characters are flawed, they're interesting, deep and complex. But when female characters are flawed, they're just a mess. It's good to put more flawed but interesting female characters out there because it promotes equality.

We need to see men and women as equal partners, but it's hard to think of movies that do that. When I talk to people, they think of movies of forty-five years ago! Hepburn and Tracy!

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.

True gender equality in Scotland - and elsewhere - is still some way off.

The funniest things just come from honesty. We have a tendency to see female characters as representative of something larger than what they are, when male characters are just characters.

I've always had difficulties with female characters.

I have this theory that the likeability question comes up so much more with female characters created by female authors than it does with male characters and male authors.

I think there have always been male writers, female writers. As a reader, I never picked up a book and said, 'Oh, I can't read this - it's about a male,' and set it back down.

Occasionally, some sitcoms still stereotype women - the old dragon or the dolly bird - but on the whole we've moved away from that.

I'm always rather nervous about how you talk about women who are active in politics, whether they want to be talked about as women or as politicians.”

With a male-centric show, the women are usually very two-dimensional.

Filmmaking is not about gender. You cannot ask a president in a festival like Cannes to have, like, five movies directed by women and five by men.

Part of the problem is that many directors treat female characters too often as precious. Or they want to live in a fantasy world where they just do spinning hook kicks and knock out guys who are six foot four, and that doesn't work either.

Male playwrights, on the whole, are probably more interested in male characters. They need women characters to be the women in their lives or to be the domestic difficulty.