Mark Millar Quotes

One of the things that's important for anybody adapting source material that is primarily a male buddy picture is to find ways to latch on to strong female characters in the piece and bring them to the forefront and celebrate their point of view alongside the men; otherwise, it becomes a sausage party, and it's a singular point of view.

It's nice to see more of those meaty female characters emerging because so often in the industry, it's always about the males.

I was of the generation where most of the Disney princesses and female characters were not girls that I admired. They just weren't characters I looked up to and identified with.

I'm really into strong, female roles - but they don't have to necessarily be loud - I'm just as interested in introverts too.

There were not enough women like Kay on TV and now there are none.

Technology may be traditionally perceived as a male-dominated industry, but it won't always be that way. Every day we see more and more powerful women leaders boasting outstanding achievements.

Especially in comedies, I think a lot of time the female characters are there to provide a balance for guys.

I want to keep playing strong female roles. I don't mean superheroes, but women who are really alive.

Often, as a young actress, you find yourself being the only girl in a room full of men... and one of the reasons why I like 'Grey's Anatomy' is because they have such strong female characters and the women really drive this show.

Some of my favorite actresses are Cate Blanchett, I love her. I love Zoe Saldana, and Julianne Moore is one of my favorites. I like women who choose diverse roles and have that strength, which I think all women have but some women embrace it, present it, and live in it.

What I find is with all due deference to - deference to our male colleagues, that women's styles tend to be more collaborative.

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 actually have a peculiar feminism that does not involve the idea that women shouldn't be sexy. Female characters written in comics have always been pretty damned sexy, and used their sexuality. And I don't have any problem with that.

I like strong female characters. I try to write them as role models for young girls.

When I came to M.I.T. in 1960, only 4 percent of the students were female. Today, it's about 40 percent of undergraduates. At Lincoln Lab, they had 1,000 men and two women. But we had a very good boss, and he treated us just like everybody else.

I'm really pleased that women like me as well as men. My fanbase is quite evenly split.

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.

I can't wait to take my son to see 'Wonder Woman' - I can't wait to show him all the female characters can be well-rounded people.

It's not something someone sets out to do - I never really set out to make movies about strong fighting women, but it just seems to happen that way. I've certainly known some, and I think my sister was probably a big influence.

I've just seen that there is a really amazing perspective that we're missing by not having more women directing.

That's one reason I really love 'Supergirl.' It's a great show for people to watch with their children - sons and daughters alike. It features strong female characters which is always something to appreciate.

I use femaleness as another lens, so I don't even think all my creatures are women; I just think that I bring out the femaleness in them.

I like shows where the female characters are as funny as the male characters, not just commenting on how funny the male characters are.

When we create female characters, I think often there is a tendency to kind of make female characters emotionally bulletproof.