Geena Davis Quotes

The creators of kids' media had no idea they were leaving out that many female characters. They were in utter shock that the worlds they were creating were so bereft of female presences.

Women remain dramatically under-represented as characters in film when compared to their representation in the U.S. population.

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 are 10-20 times more male comics than female comics; it's something to do with the social structure of society.

I get the feeling that characters are written female when they have to be, and all the other characters are male, and it doesn't occur to somebody that the lawyer, the best friend, the landlord, whoever, can be female.

I immediately noticed there were far more male characters than female characters in the programs, even now, in the 21st century.

Sometimes I try to sell shows with a female lead to networks, and that isn't something that's been a proven formula for them, so they reject it. I do feel like men get the funniest roles in movies.

In any film, there are 10 male roles for 1 female role, especially in the action films. They're heavy with the guys.

There's a remarkable amount of sexism on TV. When male characters are flawed, they're interesting, deep and complex. But when female characters are flawed, they're just a mess. It's good to put more flawed but interesting female characters out there because it promotes equality.

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

It is odd there are many movies with many men. But generally movies have one woman, or maybe the older woman and the younger girl.

There aren't a lot of female story artists, and it's baffling to me. There are a lot of kids in school that are female and I wonder, 'Where did they all go?' People have brought it up, asking me, 'What did you do?' I don't really know. I puttered along, did my thing and gender has really never been an issue.

I never had a single female professor throughout my whole education, from the beginning of university to the end. Even all the books were about men; I never really liked reading books about the history of science, and I never really understood why.

There seem to be more women producers than men.

The most frustrating thing is picking up a script and loving the roles in it except the female ones... It's really annoying and something I've striven to change in the industry.

I always had more women working for me than men.

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

Part of the problem is that many directors treat female characters too often as precious. Or they want to live in a fantasy world where they just do spinning hook kicks and knock out guys who are six foot four, and that doesn't work either.

I didn't grow up a huge fan of the Western genre because there was never a female character to relate to or look up to.

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

It's not often you get female characters who don't fit into a box.

When only one or two percent of filmmakers are female, you can't help but have some kind of bias.

After graduating, I was shooting as well as working as a key grip, and I often found myself the only female out of the whole crew, except for producers and the occasional AC.

All too often, female characters, in particular, aren't multi-layered enough.

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