Gillian Flynn Quotes

We often see literature about women that impair and immerse the women themselves, such as when women are portrayed as objects of consumerism.

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

I'm an actor, but I'm also a feminist, and a lot of times in movies there are things that I cannot imagine happening that are on the screen and totally accepted. And I just go, 'Whaaat?'

It is a difficult one, as you get scripts where women are just objects.

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.'

With a male-centric show, the women are usually very two-dimensional.

Television is often out ahead on social issues. With film, we've only recently proved that one of the oldest misconceptions in the book is wrong, which is the idea that girls will see films with boys as protagonists, but boys won't see movies with girls as protagonists.

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

I think women are very ambidextrous. We don't think twice about reading a book or a movie starring guys. But for guys, it's, like, 'Oh my God, that's a woman thing.' So with my son, I very carefully portion out the female heroes and characters to make sure he's getting an equal amount.

I don't understand why people still behave as though making movies with female protagonists is risky, given that - hello - we do make up over 50 percent of the population, and we go to movies.

I'm not sure if I should say this, and it might sound arrogant of me, but I think there is a tendency to view female characters as consumer products.

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 was frustrated in general with the way women are always portrayed. And it's always through a man's eyes.

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.

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

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

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's still prejudice and that resistance regarding women, not only on female football but in various activities. Men think that women are a bit fragile to perform some types of activities or don't have the ability and aren't strong enough.

I don't write about too many male businessmen, and I'm not apt to write about too many female businessmen.

Up until 'Bridesmaids', the general consensus was that women preferred comedy a bit softer.

There aren't more lady songwriters for the same reason that there aren't more lady doctors or lady accountants or lady lawyers; not enough women have the time for careers.

I have always been interested in gender politics, so I'm not that keen on doing things that don't represent a truth about women.

I can't stomach most of the movies about women.

I think as women we've always been very used to growing up reading and identifying with male protagonists, especially in fantasy. There's a saying in publishing that girls will read about boys, but boys will only read about boys, and it's important to give women strong heroines.

I think women are sick and tired of being portrayed as victims, a lot of the time anyway, the bulk of their time on film.