Ted Naifeh Quotes

I think as women we've always been very used to growing up reading and identifying with male protagonists, especially in fantasy. There's a saying in publishing that girls will read about boys, but boys will only read about boys, and it's important to give women strong heroines.

There aren't good roles for women: the female parts aren't developed: the women are serving the men.

There's a lot of good roles for men, always, and for very young girls. But for women, not so many.

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 was a fan of the idea of Red Sonja, but the gender politics of the character made her hard to read, for me, at times.

Time's up on cheesy, lesser, boring roles for females in the stories that we try to tell.

It's really hard to get stories made that are about women. Not just women being obsessed with men, or supporting men. And it's really hard to get men to be a part of films that are about women in a leading role. I'm really interested in how we can adjust that.

I would not like to be the only woman on the court.

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

I don't think of being a woman in an industry of men. I didn't walk into the kitchen and go, 'Ooh, I'm a girl!' I didn't get into my chosen profession. I wanted to be good at something.

There are relatively few role models for young people. We are in a society that is ruled by men.

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

People think anything done from a woman's perspective is only going to appeal to women.

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

Women are very different to men, and that hasn't been respected. So when people say there's never been a good woman painter or poet or engineer or whatever, they don't understand that our skills are many simultaneously and men's skills are single.

Research shows that girls look at leadership differently than boys.

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.

There have been a few times when I've read a script and it's really cool but the girl character's just kind of pathetic. It's not going to do me any favours just being 'the girl' in a cool movie.

For me, a director is a director immaterial of the gender. At the end of the day, the audience is only interested in watching a good film.

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.

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.

I've heard people say that 'The Blair Witch Project' is a feminist movie because there's a woman in charge and I've heard it called a completely anti-feminist movie because this woman screws everything up. Who cares really? It's just a movie.

I have never been good at doing impressions of women. Which is understandable. There's a gender issue.

Most critics of gender division are women, and they're worried about girls and the roles presented for them by gendered entertainments. They are quite right to be. Telling girls that the cars and the guns are beyond their domain of expertise, and that they should content themselves with clothes and friendships, is limiting.