Chris Roberson Quotes

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

Every time there's a really good story, there's women in it. We may not get as many roles, but the roles we get are really good, I think, for the most part.

It could be partly my taste. It's just my belief that there are female characters that will benefit from not being vulnerable.

I get to play a lot of powerful, smartest women in the room. And that's deeply satisfying.

It's so rare that you actually get to find a really well-written female lead.

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 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.

I get really excited every time there's a female character who is really strong because a lot of females in film are really soft.

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

There are, in terms of numbers, more leading roles for women in television than there are features. That's absolutely certain.

There are very few shows that show women talking like strong, sassy women. Do you know what I mean? 'Sex and the City' started doing that, and that was why that was such a huge hit.

I'm not a goddess, for crying out loud. I'm a regular person who took feminism - which I have a deep connection to - and mixed it with music, which I really love to do.

I'm really inspired by playing strong women. Anything that I can be a part of like that, to be a role model for young women.

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

You know, she was a girl. She was a female. And she wasn't like, trying to compete in a man's world and she wasn't trying to be in a man's position, she was just who she was. And I think that was like, a good thing.

The beauty of 'The Hunger Games' and also 'Game of Thrones,' in fairness, both projects have really complex, three-dimensional, contradictory, strong women... The writing of female characters is extraordinary and equal to the men.

I don't care about controversies. I am a young woman with an opinion about certain things. I can't be diplomatic. I am a feminist, and as long as I can be the voice of hundreds of girls out there, I will speak my mind. I don't care what other people think.

I want to keep playing strong female roles. I don't mean superheroes, but women who are really alive.

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

Often, as a young actress, you find yourself being the only girl in a room full of men... and one of the reasons why I like 'Grey's Anatomy' is because they have such strong female characters and the women really drive this show.

Root for the girls who wear dresses and are intellectually very strong.

Joss Whedon is a hero of mine, and what he's done for women in film and television, particularly when it comes to writing female roles that would typically go to a man, is awesome.

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

I've never asked for special treatment along the way. And I'm never going to hide the fact that I'm a girl, ever. That's obvious, isn't it?

I've always played strong women who are doing their own thing.