Jason Aaron Quotes

I'm working hard to break free of stereotypes that the film industry has created and nurtured around women.

When lions paint pictures men will not always be represented as conquerors. When women translate laws, constitutions, bibles and philosophies, man will not always be the declared heard of the church, the state, and the home.

I am not a feminist, but I do believe in the strength of women... This social revolution of feminism in the '70s really achieved so many of its goals-not every single one of them, obviously-but I think we should say it's great that these young women don't feel like they need to be feminists.

In my opinion it is a grave error for women to feel that they must move only in women's interests... . What, after all, would we think if men all got together and kept doing things that were supposed to be in the interest of men?

I think there are many feminists who would say that I am not a feminist. I love women, I have a lot of girlfriends, I admire them, they make so much more sense to me than men, and I feel like the world is a better place when women are in charge. So that kind of by default makes me a feminist. I love working in a female world.

Even though Star Wars is easily read as feminist for its time - and even for now, with Princess Leia's role - people wouldn't make a movie like that in 2016, where the guys are mostly the tough ones, and the women aren't in positions of authority.

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.

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.

For a while, I was nervous about portraying women because of the objectification that automatically comes with it, whether the artist intends or not.

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

'True Detective' would not pass The Bechdel Test.

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

Women's art, political art - those categorisations perpetuate a certain kind of marginality which I'm resistant to. But I absolutely define myself as a feminist.

'Little Women' has interesting gender connotations. There are generations of women who love the book. But there are a lot of men who think it's sentimental, gooey stuff.

I'm not that interested in female superheroes.

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

I like female directors that gravitate toward masculine things. I think the danger of a male director is the over-fetishization of the masculinity.

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.

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

When you write as a woman, there's this feeling there's going to be a softness.

You get angry and frustrated wondering, 'Are there enough parts for women?'

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

The difference between Superman and Wonder Woman is not strength or power level or origin but the fact that she is a woman.

So often, in films, there are two ways a female can be portrayed: either innocent and virginal or the complete opposite.