Judith Tarr Quotes

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.

I wouldn't know how to write a weak female character. I read so much epic fantasy growing up, where you have these sword-wielding, in-your-face warrior maidens.

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.

I would have loved to do a film like 'Piku' or 'Neerja.' But I never got a role where a woman played an authoritative role. In my time, the hero and the villain were both men. The heroine was only the victim.

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

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.

Having had that experience... I think, what modern culture wants to see is the relationship with the woman. I don't think you can tell a story on film nowadays where the woman simply is there for the man when he decides to settle down.

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.

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.

I won't take parts where the female character has no substance.

Identifying with a character is one of the best parts of seeing a movie, but as women, we've had to train ourselves to experience the male journey.

I think part of the pressure put on 'strong female characters' comes from the fact that there is so often 'the team girl,' who must be all things to all people. Part of avoiding that is having as many female characters as I can, and allowing them to thrive in their own right, not inside a framework they didn't ask for and don't want.

I seek to cast an incorruptible gaze on women, especially where they are the accomplices of men.

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

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.

A lot of animated movies in the past have sort of relied on these archaic tropes on what the female characters in those movies can be and who they are.

It's nice to know that a studio is willing to put a female in a film without expecting the character to have a love interest.

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

There are so many male antiheroes but not nearly as many female antiheroes.There's a lot of pressure on female characters to be likable. That puts a lot of pressure on women to be likable.

I think, so often, women play supporting roles or girlfriends or wives - they're there to support a man's journey.

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

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

I see the portrayal of any believable female character as feminist.

I was always looking for the female characters in sci-fi and fantasy who were more than just the girlfriend.