Hansika Motwani Quotes

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.

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.

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

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.'

I've always known that I'll have a career for the rest of my life because they'll always make movies about men, and men need women in their lives. But, when it comes to telling a woman's story, they're complex, circular, and not genre-driven.

As a male writer, women are always what men pursue, and their world is always a mystery. So I always tried to present as many views as possible on women's worlds.

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.

Basically, I just want to do a movie where I'm surrounded by women.

It felt amazing to be one of a handful working female directors in Hollywood.

Get more women producers, writers, directors. Why should we expect men to do it for us? They can't.

I can't stomach most of the movies about women.

Sometimes I take a movie selfishly because it's a female lead.

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.

There aren't good roles for women: the female parts aren't developed: the women are serving the men.

I kind of feel like every time I do a film, it is me and an entire male ensemble cast.

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

I'm really excited that 'The Other Woman' did so well at the box office, and I hope that will keep encouraging people to make movies about women, starring women, about female friendships. More. Please.

There's nothing worse than having a very strong female character and then suddenly having it go away.

I think as a young actress, it's very rare that you read something where you're not either 'the girl' or there to serve some romantic purpose in a male dominated cast.

But there are still only certain film genres where a woman can stand out, be heroic, be the centerpiece.

Sometimes it's more difficult to exist as a female lead, especially in action movies because all those men are around you. They take so much place.

We're feminists. We're doing something that only guys are expected to do and doin' it right! At our concerts we'll do one hard-core rap song and then do one where we'll be real sexy.

It's sad that women characters have lost so much ground in popular movies. Didn't 'Thelma and Louise' prove that women want to see women doing things on film? Thelma and Louise were in a classic car; they were being chased by cops; they shot up a truck - and women loved it.

I seem to be getting a lot of things pushed my way that are strong women. It's like people see Hackers and they send me offers to play tough women with guns, the kind who wear no bra and a little tank top. I'd like to play strong women who are also very feminine.

I want there to be tons and tons and tons and tons of movies starring women.