Action Heroines Quotes

Women look really sexy doing action on-screen, and it is my favorite genre.

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

I definitely acknowledge that 'The Matrix' and Trinity had an influence on female action-oriented characters in television and in film. I think it's awesome.

In the past that you should choose a list of female action superhero movies that haven't worked. I don't believe they haven't worked because they had a female in the lead, I believe they didn't work because they weren't good. They weren't technically well done movies.

I think Wonder Woman is a very difficult character to crack. More difficult than Superman, who is also more difficult than Batman. Also, a lot of people in Hollywood believe that it's hard to do a big action movie with a female lead. I happen to disagree with that.

What I really want to do is create great roles for women. And I'm not talking Nicholas Sparks romance. I think women's roles have gotten ghettoized in these sort of places... I'm thinking women in action, comic books, or like the Tony Soprano of women. We need some complex roles.

Young action heroines feel in service of male gaze, rather than being the full complexity of a human being.

When I first came to Hollywood to make 'Mortal Kombat' back in the day, there was this rule that female-led action movies don't work and American studios didn't want to make them.

At one time, especially during the era of action heroes, women took a bit of a secondary role because heroes were doing most of the action.

We're not used to seeing movies, especially with physical action, when it isn't the man who comes in to save the day.