Florence Pugh Quotes

Roles for women need to be better written.

To deny women directors, as I suspect is happening in the States, is to deny the feminine vision.

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.

There should be more women directing; I think there's just not the awareness that it's really possible.

I don't understand why there aren't more powerful female directors. I don't have the answers, but I hope that things may start to shift and that studios will employ more women to handle strong and interesting material.

There weren't roles for females in comedies for a really long time.

Yes, the Bechdel Test. It's named for Allison Bechdel, who is a comic book creator. The test is, are there two named women in the film? Do they talk to each other? And is it about something other than a man? I actually think the Bechdel Test is a little advanced for us sometimes.

I feel like every year there's a thing about 'not enough roles for ladies!' and, then, also an article, like 'The Year of The Woman.' I think that we all just know in our hearts they're underrepresented. But that doesn't mean that there aren't amazing moments.

What's so dumb is that women are 50 per cent of the population, and they want to spend money to see movies where they're portrayed as three-dimensional characters.

I can't tell you how many incredible directors I long to work with, but then I look at their IMDb page, and they haven't made a single movie about a woman.

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 not many female role models to guide voters, and the tradition that a Southern woman's place is in the home still lingers in some quarters.

I like women in film. I like women in general, but I especially like to show them on film. They are not ciphers.

You're allowed to make things for women on television and there's not like... you don't have to go through the humiliation of having made something directed at women. There it's just accepted, whereas if it's a feature, it's like 'So, talk to me about chick flicks.'

There's still prejudice and that resistance regarding women, not only on female football but in various activities. Men think that women are a bit fragile to perform some types of activities or don't have the ability and aren't strong enough.

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.

What bugs me is that movies don't reflect how interesting and vibrant women are. We don't treasure women as they get older.

I never wanted to be an actress who complained about the lack of roles for women.

As a producer and director, I've tried for years to get properties off the ground for girls, and I've been hitting a brick wall.

Even after such milestones as Kathryn Bigelow winning an Oscar, there still seem to be few women in leadership roles.

There aren't a lot of roles written for women who are strong willed.

It's still not easy to find roles that offer more complex images of women.

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.'

You get elected, often, if you're a woman, on the strength of the women's vote; then you get into office, and you have to adapt to an overwhelmingly male environment.

Every time there's a really good story, there's women in it. We may not get as many roles, but the roles we get are really good, I think, for the most part.