Rebecca Hall Quotes

I portray female characters, so I have the opportunity to change the way people look at them. Even if I wasn't consciously doing that, it would happen anyway just because of how I present as a woman, or as a person. I present in a way that's not stereotypical, even if I'm playing a stereotypical role.

Just like how male actors get to play varied characters, I would also like to play characters that people don't normally see female characters portraying on screen.

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

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.

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

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.

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 think there are more female characters in videogames now but I also think that's because videogames in general are more diverse now.

I am not one to go for traditional female roles, because I don't think traditionally female characters are very interesting, and I don't think they represent real life.

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

I think that there are a lot of male writers and directors in Hollywood, and a lot of the female characters you do see are really one-dimensional, but I think that's changing more and more as there are more women taking control in Hollywood.

There's a tendency to still show women as being one way or the other - you're either soft and shy or you're really ballsy and funny, but I think that we're everything.

Women's roles in the movies remain, for the most part, girlfriends, mothers, wives.

I try to write from a place of writing what I know, and what I know is interesting and appropriate women with edgy senses of humor. They're not soft people, so why are all the movies about women soft? My friends are all blazing their own paths. Some are married with kids, but a lot of them aren't. Some of them don't want that life.

I see the portrayal of any believable female character as feminist.

I am glad that people have become more accepting of female characters.

I feel it's so rare that young females are portrayed as being anything more than a stereotype.

I want to be in the small percentage of women who don't settle for conventional roles.

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.

I'm a pragmatist. I think, as a woman, you have to be more careful. You have to be more communal, you have to say yes to more things than men, you have to worry about things that men don't have to worry about. But once we get enough women into leadership, we can break stereotypes down. If you lead, you get to decide.

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

People want to put women in one box, and I'm interested in how women can be everything at once.

When people ask me why I am running as a woman, I always answer, 'What choice do I have?'

I'd just like to see a role for women where someone who isn't traditionally attractive is not portraying the best friend. You know, the character that only speaks in questions. 'Gee, are you gonna go out with him? Do you think I look fat?'

I've always tried to be conscious of how I represent women in my work. They don't have to be good or strong women, but they have to be complex.