Raashi Khanna Quotes

I love strong women in films that are allowed to play women and not male fantasies.

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.

I'm so sick of hearing how there's no strong roles for women. I don't care about strong roles. I just want to see women who are characters! A nun, a serial killer, a housewife, as long as there's some depth there.

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 think there is an enormous appetite for great roles for women. You can see that clearly with things like 'The Hunger Games.'

I think it's very refreshing to see women in cinema having strength and their own independent storyline.

One of the things that we've tried to do with the 'Guardians' films is to allow the women to be full characters.

Why shouldn't there be more epic, brilliant female characters onscreen?

'Lord of the Rings' was a childhood favorite, though the adult Rae wishes the women in those books had more significance and agency.

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

Very good female characters, that's all we want. It's happening, slow and steady, which I love. Hopefully, it gets a little quicker. Fast and steady, how about that? Either way, we want more good females.

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

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

I think that the audience wants to see women being put into real situations where they can relate to them, rather than seeing some glamorous woman in a 'Bond' film.

There is this idea that you have to play heroines or women who succeed.

I'm interested in playing lots of different complex women.

Most mainstream male fiction is littered with heroines, and female characters are basically so great, you want to fall in love with them.

But there are still only certain film genres where a woman can stand out, be heroic, be the centerpiece.

I loved Veronica right off the bat. She was so strong and I think it is so important because there are so few shows that portray women, especially young women, as being strong and being able to stand up for themselves.

I love women. I've always cared about making movies about women my entire career.

It's only recently women got to be action heroes on TV. Progress is slow, and often non-existent. There's plenty of cool comics with female characters... But all it takes is one Catwoman to set the cause back a decade.

It's not often that a strong female role comes across one's desk, unfortunately, but it's getting better.

I think that there are a lot of male writers and directors in Hollywood, and a lot of the female characters you do see are really one-dimensional, but I think that's changing more and more as there are more women taking control in Hollywood.

I would love to do a chick flick sometime soon, a film with strong female characters - when I say strong, I don't mean that they are changing the world, but just be real women.

I think people get confused: people think 'strong female characters' mean you need to play an action figure.