George Perez Quotes

There's nothing worse than having a very strong female character and then suddenly having it go away.

I do feel privileged to play Elektra, because definitely she is a strong female character. She's a strong character. It would be nice if eventually we'd just say she's a strong character, not a strong female character.

When you've played Buffy - who's such a strong female role model - it's really hard for another female character to compare to her.

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

I can't stomach most of the movies about women.

Women are not inherently passive or peaceful.

I'd been so tired of 'strong female characters' for so long by then. I was so tired of the way female strength was made to look cold and humorless; the way it was characterized as deviant and 'unnatural' and always lonely and exceptional. I was tired of the grim undertone of tragedy that lurked under its surface. 'Strong female characters' were never funny, and they never had any fun, either. More often than not, they were celibate, friendless, and clinically depressed. Their monomaniacal devotion to crime fighting made them lean, cranky, and impatient. Naturally, they had axes to grind: they were avenging brides, poker-faced assassins, gloomy ninjas with commitment issues. Who were these characters? What were they trying to tell us? Why didn't they ever say goodbye before hanging up the phone? And why were they always being reborn or remade as killing machines after losing everything they held dear?

It's amazing that we have lead females on television and a couple of them over 40. Thank you very much. And being beautiful and strong and sexy and everything that you hope for.

I'm personally fed up with people seeing women and girls cast as victims.

Over the years, the writers at DC Comics softened Wonder Woman's powers in ways that would have infuriated Marston. During the 1960s, she was hardly wondrous at all, less a heroic warrior than the tomboyish girl next door. It was no longer clear whether she was meant to empower the girls or captivate the boys.

I felt that 'The Woman' was a feminist movie at heart.

If we don't start representing women properly on screen now, we're never going to change our opinion of them as a society.

My women characters should not exist only to play the 'love interest' of a male character.

Even in stories that I like, with a female character that I love deeply, it always feels like there's something that she has to prove to the male characters before she can even get started.

I suppose the cult of the strong woman character on TV has probably been misinterpreted in so many different ways, meaning that a woman can't be emotionally complicated or want things or can't be weak in moments.

I do see a lot of roles that are, like, the girlfriend or the love interest or the girl next door. Maybe not totally well-rounded kinds of characters - women who are more of a plot device in a way.

As a male writer, women are always what men pursue, and their world is always a mystery. So I always tried to present as many views as possible on women's worlds.

I thought Charlize Theron was awesome in 'Mad Max,' and that was a very masculine kind of hero.

We thought we'd write a good script for women, giving them the fun roles that generally men get.

We don't have enough young, female antiheroes. We don't accept women as antiheroes the way we do the men.

Usually when you see females in movies, they feel like they have these metallic structures around them, they are caged in by male energy.

I think that Hollywood misconstrues actresses saying, 'Oh I wanna play a strong female character,' like we all want to play, like, superheroes or something.

What I get a bit angry about is the image of women.

There's no need for a female character that does things like a male character; that's not what makes interesting female characters in my view.

I always look for roles that make me feel good about being a girl. I have to say that there are a lot of roles out there that make me feel really bad about being a girl. You can imagine what the things are and I shall not go into detail.