Elizabeth Debicki Quotes

It's great to have female characters that have depth that you can explore instead of being the decoration or the girlfriend or the wife.

I'm drawn to interesting female characters and good storylines.

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

I've sort of dealt with the characters' lives more; particularly the women characters.

Strong female characters - even if they don't necessarily make the same decisions that we might - make such great narrative material, especially when there's an equally strong male character in the mix.

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 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.

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 think people get confused: people think 'strong female characters' mean you need to play an action figure.

I always found growing up that, even inspiring female characters or complex female characters in TV and film... I often found that their complexity was actually just another facet of their sexuality.

I am very interested in female characters and bringing a new perspective to mediums where not necessarily that's been valued at all.

In film, because you know where the ending is, characters can change, but in television, you substitute revelation for change, and that can be hard to pull off.

In a series, you really need to stay open-minded. It's not like a play or a film, where you can create and fully commit to your character's back-story.

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.

From its beginning, fan fiction has been written mostly by women. Originally, this was because of a dearth of interesting female characters in conventional sci-fi.

Origin stories are really important to me. I just like that sort of stuff and I feel like it makes a lot of sense to the guys, who they are. If you don't have that stuff, it's kind of a one dimensional version of it.

I'd love to do a film. I'd love to play a character that I know the beginning, middle and end of.

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.

In a film you only get two hours to do this big arc and so you have to pick and choose your moments carefully, but with television you get to take your time and just take it episode by episode and discover new things.

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.

My books are primarily plot driven but the best plot in the world is useless if you don't populate them with characters that readers can care about.

I'm interested in playing lots of different complex women.

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

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