Andrea Seigel Quotes

When I was young, there weren't any teenage girls I could relate to in film. They were all put in boxes: the virginal good girl, the really sarcastic asexual one. I wanted to do something that represented how I felt then.

I've always been so uninterested in playing any kind of archetype of some pure, innocent, virginal woman. I just don't believe it.

I'm enjoying being a woman on-screen.

Popular culture is filled with girls.

French cinema allows women to look... a certain way and be talented at the same time.

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.

It's lame to say that I'm a normal girl, but I think I am.

A movie about a weak, vulnerable woman can be feminist if it shows a real person that we can empathize with.

There are so few representations of women that look remotely real in scripted television.

Teenage girls in television and film, in my experience, oftentimes are portrayed as either the sweet, innocent virgin or the super-sexy, experienced, town bicycle. There never seems to be an in-between. I think most girls are somewhere in between those two tropes.

I became interested in educating people in the variety of ways in which women can express their emotion. Which is much easier to do in a large role than in a supporting role to a male protagonist. In general, the women in a supporting role to a male protagonist - cry a lot.

What's so lovely about Wonder Woman is yes, she has the strength and power of a goddess, but she has the heart and mind of a human. So I play her as I think a woman like me would act in the situations she's going through. You treat her as a normal woman who happens to be fantastic and almighty.

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

It's great to have female characters that have depth that you can explore instead of being the decoration or the girlfriend or the wife.

Jessica Jones isn't dressed in a sexy outfit to turn people on. She's gritty. She's a human being.

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

My women characters should not exist only to play the 'love interest' of a male character.

I do feel privileged to play Elektra, because definitely she is a strong female character. She's a strong character. It would be nice if eventually we'd just say she's a strong character, not a strong female character.

I've always been in this weird indie world, and for a long time, I felt that it was not okay to be girly in that world.

I was used to Essex boys growing up. Russian boys are a lot more gentlemanly and thoughtful. They will express their emotions a bit more.

Sometimes females feel like they should act like men, but they should really just be themselves.

I want women on-screen that we all either want to be, or we know, or we recognize.

Most of the female 'superhero' role models of my childhood came from novels, and they rarely had powers. Take Dorothy, for example, from 'The Wizard of Oz;' or Laura Ingalls and her sisters in the 'Little House on the Prairie' novels.

We're so used to seeing women in movies about a romance where they don't seem to have any inner fortitude. They're completely defined by their relationships, and it's hard to engage with those characters and relate to them.