Emily Ratajkowski Quotes

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.'

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

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.

The stronger the participation of the female characters, the better the movie. They knew that in the old days, when women stars were equally as important as men.

Women are half the population of the world, and yet there are so few female characters on-screen.

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

Roles for women need to be better written.

I'm just hoping that as I get older, and as more and more movies get made by female directors, what we start to see is how, in the same way good male directors get a shot at creating interesting male and female characters, women do as well.

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

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.

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

I've made movies that are real boy movies - but I've had so much fun over the years working with women and getting good performances with women and with strong female characters.

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.

What bugs me is that movies don't reflect how interesting and vibrant women are. We don't treasure women as they get older.

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.

They sign a bunch of women, and they call it a movement. I don't like the way women in music have been identified as women first and musicians second.

Even after such milestones as Kathryn Bigelow winning an Oscar, there still seem to be few women in leadership roles.

I don't understand why there aren't more powerful female directors. I don't have the answers, but I hope that things may start to shift and that studios will employ more women to handle strong and interesting material.

There aren't a lot of roles written for women who are strong willed.

I want there to be tons and tons and tons and tons of movies starring women.

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

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

What's so dumb is that women are 50 per cent of the population, and they want to spend money to see movies where they're portrayed as three-dimensional characters.

It's not often you get female characters who don't fit into a box.

I can't tell you how many incredible directors I long to work with, but then I look at their IMDb page, and they haven't made a single movie about a woman.