I'm drawn to female characters; not all of them are strong characters.
The female characters in 'Peep Show' are not 'strong': they are idiots. As idiotic as the men.
I love flawed female characters, duking it out.
I've always had difficulties with female characters.
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 try and write strong female characters or strong male characters, I just try and write, hopefully, strong characters and sometimes they happen to be female.
I won't take parts where the female character has no substance.
There's a remarkable amount of sexism on TV. When male characters are flawed, they're interesting, deep and complex. But when female characters are flawed, they're just a mess. It's good to put more flawed but interesting female characters out there ...
In my mind, every single female character I've written is plus-size.
We're showing kids a world that is very scantily populated with women and female characters. They should see female characters taking up half the planet, which we do.
I tend to like strong female characters. It just interests me dramatically. A strong male character isn't interesting because it has been done and it's so cliched. A weak male character is interesting: somebody else hasn't done it a hundred times. A ...
As a writer, as much as I try, I can't stop writing female characters. They have so much more to offer; they have to wear so many different hats. There's so much wonderful gray matter in a female's life that it just makes for a stronger character.
I have this theory that the likeability question comes up so much more with female characters created by female authors than it does with male characters and male authors.
I get really excited every time there's a female character who is really strong because a lot of females in film are really soft.
You can tell the character of a person by their handshake.
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.'
When you've played Buffy - who's such a strong female role model - it's really hard for another female character to compare to her.
The funniest things just come from honesty. We have a tendency to see female characters as representative of something larger than what they are, when male characters are just characters.
I do love that witches haven't really been explored that much. Usually, witches are the little side character... a bad female character that comes in and leaves.
Few female characters get to be “the Chosen One” in science fiction and fantasy. Leia is as much the child of Darth Vader as Luke is, but only Luke gets to use the force, be recruited by his dad and ultimately save the day. We don’t get impossi...
Strong female characters - even if they don't necessarily make the same decisions that we might - make such great narrative material, especially when there's an equally strong male character in the mix.
