Florence Pugh Quotes

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

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

I think women are sick and tired of being portrayed as victims, a lot of the time anyway, the bulk of their time on film.

Time's up on cheesy, lesser, boring roles for females in the stories that we try to tell.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

My women characters should not exist only to play the 'love interest' of a male character.

Just like how male actors get to play varied characters, I would also like to play characters that people don't normally see female characters portraying on screen.

I really want to do roles that have some substance, and I hope writers give us that importance. I can't alone stand up and demand roles like that. It's a collective thing. Writers have to believe in heroines and understand that there's more to a woman than just her curves. It's not that they can't do it. They just choose not to.

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 can't stomach most of the movies about women.

We all know that television is better for women as they get into their 40s. You could be more three-dimensional, not just the wife or the mother.

Most mainstream male fiction is littered with heroines, and female characters are basically so great, you want to fall in love with them.

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.

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.

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 only recently women got to be action heroes on TV. Progress is slow, and often non-existent. There's plenty of cool comics with female characters... But all it takes is one Catwoman to set the cause back a decade.

Some feminists have this party-line attitude, and they can be very extremist. The most enlightened characters in my film are women.

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.

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.