Tessa Thompson Quotes

I think there is an enormous appetite for great roles for women. You can see that clearly with things like 'The Hunger Games.'

One of the things that we've tried to do with the 'Guardians' films is to allow the women to be full characters.

We can all agree that the best part of 'Black Panther' was his female army, the Dora Milaje. They made the movie.

French cinema allows women to look... a certain way and be talented at the same time.

It's hard because I seek out strong female roles. I turn down a lot of stuff, not because it's not good, but because I don't want to play certain types of characters. I don't like to just play the pretty girl.

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.

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.

For me, the triad of 'Harry Potter,' the 'Hunger Games' and 'Twilight' feature strong women, and as a declared feminist, it's a wonderful thing. These women have really opened up this particular world of storytelling, which I'm very grateful for.

Well you know, I have the utmost respect for people like Angelina Jolie and Zoe Saldana in 'Colombiana. '

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.'

It's not often that a strong female role comes across one's desk, unfortunately, but it's getting better.

You look at Kerry Washington on 'Scandal,' and a lot of the women on that show in general are very strong, and I think we're seeing it more, and I'm excited because when I was doing Dana Gordon on 'Entourage,' there weren't a lot of strong female characters, which is why I think she came out as such a standout character.

I think it's very refreshing to see women in cinema having strength and their own independent storyline.

Women do have better roles to play, more characters are being written. For instance, Surpriya Pathak's character in 'Ram Leela' or Neena Gupta's part in 'Badhaai Ho'.'

I get to play a lot of powerful, smartest women in the room. And that's deeply satisfying.

Most of the female 'superhero' role models of my childhood came from novels, and they rarely had powers. Take Dorothy, for example, from 'The Wizard of Oz;' or Laura Ingalls and her sisters in the 'Little House on the Prairie' novels.

It's important for me to play women who can overcome adversity, make change, and take control of their lives. I think it's a great time for women in TV and film in general, and I want to help tell these stories.

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 love strong women in films that are allowed to play women and not male fantasies.

I started off in drama, and there are so many women that I admire. Women in this industry are gladiators. Cicely Tyson, Viola Davis, Taraji Henson, Regina Hall, Regina King.

I think it will be great if we have more female directors in the world.

In 'Boyz N the Hood,' every female character was three-dimensional.

I only want to write books and movies about women.

It could be partly my taste. It's just my belief that there are female characters that will benefit from not being vulnerable.

I just love strong female characters in general, not necessarily because, 'She's evil' or 'Oh, because she's good.'