Ashly Burch Quotes

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

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.

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.

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.

Roles for women need to be better written.

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

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.

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 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.'

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 became interested in educating people in the variety of ways in which women can express their emotion. Which is much easier to do in a large role than in a supporting role to a male protagonist. In general, the women in a supporting role to a male protagonist - cry a lot.

I think that there are a lot of male writers and directors in Hollywood, and a lot of the female characters you do see are really one-dimensional, but I think that's changing more and more as there are more women taking control in Hollywood.

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.

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

I like female characters that are strong in their own right and not because the author said so.

There are so many female roles - particularly for young women - that are just somebody's girlfriend or somebody's daughter, or that are accessories to the main story rather than being three-dimensional characters.

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.

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.

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

I don't think there's any great mystery to writing female characters, so long as you talk to them. If you lived in a monastery and never met any women, maybe it would be difficult.

I think that's important to women in comedy, that we get a lot of the good lines and you're not just the girlfriend or the sister.

I just really have an affinity for women. Watching them go through journeys is more interesting to me than watching men.

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