Samantha Akkineni Quotes

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.'

As women, we tend to take the easy way out in showbiz. I have done movies where all I did was look pretty in every frame.

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

There have been a few times when I've read a script and it's really cool but the girl character's just kind of pathetic. It's not going to do me any favours just being 'the girl' in a cool movie.

We as women have a voice and we are decision makers in what film to see. We always support our boyfriends and husbands by going to see the male dominated films, but we don't compel them to see films with female casts.

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's a lot of good roles for men, always, and for very young girls. But for women, not so many.

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.

I think a lot of the time in films, men get roles where they create their own destiny and women are just tools, supporters for that.

I'm so bored of reading scripts with these wonderfully complex male roles, yet the woman character just sits on the bed waiting for him to come home.

For the most part, it's a very male-dominated business. Most executives are male, so it's always sort of their vision of stuff. I'm constantly fighting against that, even when I play the wife or the girlfriend or the best friend. I always try my hardest to bring as much layering in and not make things stereotypical, but it's hard.

The film industry is driven by male narrative. Heads of studios are often men, teeming with male executives everywhere you look, and so the narratives we have the screenwriters usually for male leads. Women tend to be second string: the girlfriend of, the secretary who becomes.

I still feel, when I meet actresses, no matter how high-profile they are, that they are starved for good roles.

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

I think it's good that we're talking about it, but I think there's still a gendered nature to the way that people see female directors' skill sets. And I think we need to keep examining that. I don't know if people know how complicated the issue really is.

Being a woman in a male-dominated industry, you are so afraid of people thinking you are weak.

Being sensitive to the problem of women is just another symptom of the quality of movies: I don't think you can do anything that's very sensitive. Everything's sort of broad strokes and big gestures - adventure things that boys, guys want to see.

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

There are relatively few role models for young people. We are in a society that is ruled by men.

Usually when you see females in movies, they feel like they have these metallic structures around them, they are caged in by male energy.

It's not fair that there aren't very many juicy or varied roles for women.

Most executives are male, so it's always sort of their vision of stuff. I'm constantly fighting against that even when I play the wife or the girlfriend or the best friend. I always try my hardest to bring as much layering in and not make things stereotypical, but it's hard.

There is this idea that you have to play heroines or women who succeed.

I've made movies that are real boy movies - but I've had so much fun over the years working with women and getting good performances with women and with strong female characters.

You know, Mamet is not a huge writer of female parts. Most of his movies don't even have women in them, so I'm lucky I'm in it at all.