Richard LaGravenese Quotes

James Patterson has a way with female characters. He understands women in a way that a lot of male writers don't.

I sometimes get asked: 'How come the men in your stories don't have such strong characters?' And I'm like: 'I don't care.' I just want to find out about all the different lives a woman can live. But my feminism has never been against men. It's not erasure; it's just they're not the focus. In real life, they're quite nice.

I am interested in writing how women really feel, how they really think, and how they respond to men. I don't want men reading my books because they might find out too much.

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

I'm still very interested in telling one-of-a-kind women's stories.

I won't take parts where the female character has no substance.

Strong female leads are important.

I think women have such rich emotional lives that they are expressive about. I also think they're funny. I like watching strong female characters, and I like writing them. I don't know if it's conscious that I gravitate towards women, but it's certainly evolved that way.

As a writer, as much as I try, I can't stop writing female characters. They have so much more to offer; they have to wear so many different hats. There's so much wonderful gray matter in a female's life that it just makes for a stronger character.

There are so many female roles - particularly for young women - that are just somebody's girlfriend or somebody's daughter, or that are accessories to the main story rather than being three-dimensional characters.

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'm a pragmatist. I think, as a woman, you have to be more careful. You have to be more communal, you have to say yes to more things than men, you have to worry about things that men don't have to worry about. But once we get enough women into leadership, we can break stereotypes down. If you lead, you get to decide.

The simple act of telling a woman's story from a woman's point of view is a revolutionary act: it never has been done before.

We've always been ready for female superheroes. Because women want to be them and men want to do them.

I'm attracted to strong female roles: females that aren't necessarily defined by their relationships with men.

I've always tried to be conscious of how I represent women in my work. They don't have to be good or strong women, but they have to be complex.

I am interested in stories that concern women.

I love stories about women.

When there is a strong woman character in a story - that always grabs me.

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.

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.

I don't know if my films are about women in a kind of frolicking - here's a grab bag of women's issues. They are about women of substance with very particular stories.

I am fascinated by women. They're as close as we men get to experiencing 'the other.' The challenge for me was to know and accept fully formed, powerful women.

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

Leadership is about encouraging women to break their silence and tell their stories to the world.