Kaya Scodelario Quotes

There's no need for a female character that does things like a male character; that's not what makes interesting female characters in my view.

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

There have been a few times when I've read a script and it's really cool but the girl character's just kind of pathetic. It's not going to do me any favours just being 'the girl' in a cool movie.

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

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

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'm so bored of reading scripts with these wonderfully complex male roles, yet the woman character just sits on the bed waiting for him to come home.

Oftentimes in films, the female character, if she's not the protagonist - and often, even if she is - feels like an imitation of what a woman is.

I've always - from my very first film, 'Shopping,' which was Jude Law and Sadie Frost, I mean, I've always liked strong women characters in films.

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

I shy away from doing heroine-dominated subjects.

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

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

I did things like Shampoo and Heaven Can Wait. I don't know what those films were about. The women I played in them were not very empowered.

As women, we tend to take the easy way out in showbiz. I have done movies where all I did was look pretty in every frame.

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.

There aren't good roles for women: the female parts aren't developed: the women are serving the men.

I want to play a range, from victims to strong people, just as long as it's a well-rounded character. And it's not a woman who's just there for the purpose of the man.

We as women have a voice and we are decision makers in what film to see. We always support our boyfriends and husbands by going to see the male dominated films, but we don't compel them to see films with female casts.

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.

Film is not a woman's medium. If you weren't the hottest kid in town, men stayed away from you.

I get asked why there aren't more female directors all the time. I'm kind of reluctant to talk about it. That's not because I think the question is irrelevant or stupid. It's just that there are so many mitigating factors.

I think a lot of the time in films, men get roles where they create their own destiny and women are just tools, supporters for that.

And the first commandment of feminism is: I am woman; thou shalt not tolerate strange gods who assert that women have capabilities or often choose roles that are different from men's.

There is still a funny notion that women should not write violent fiction.